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Urban Blight, U.S. Skills Gap, and Stephen’s Van
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The USA today has some 700,000 job openings not being filled due to lack of skilled candidates. Some 5 million jobs over the next decade are projected to be open (due to retirements) but not filled (due to skills gap). Stephen Tucker talks about his workforce training program, designed to reduce the skills gap, especially within advanced manufacturing, like welding, robotics, electrician, etc. Ray Attiiyah, author of “The Fearless Frontline” introduced me to Stephen, and I’m glad he did because I learned a ton. As Stephen says, businesses must take ownership “of their talent pipeline the way they do their supply chain.”
4:20 – “It’s an economic development challenge because businesses can’t continue to grow unless they have qualified human capital. The skills gap is very serious.”
5:42 – “Young people are not aware, or not interested, or don’t have the technical capabilities to fill these open employment opportunities despite these sectors having average salaries of $50,000 to $70,000/year”
8:08 – on how the state and private sectors work together to solve the problem “industry and sector partnerships… work on three objectives: 1) align education and industry… 2) raise awareness among young people… 3) develop and create career pathways.”
10:38 – It’s about “having industry take more ownership of their talent pipeline the way they do their supply chain.”
He talks about overcoming logistical challenges like transportation, emergency funds, completion rates (double those of community colleges!), and how we lost focus on the opportunities of skilled trades.
22:54 – on success stories… “he graduated high school in 2015, went to college…flunked out… worked for $12/hour… enrolled in our training program, graduated in 2019… we placed him as maintenance technician making $52,000/year… when he got the call that he was hired, he and his mother broke down in tears because they knew this opportunity would change his life.”
You can reach Stephen at [email protected]
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Benno Duenkelsbuehler
CEO & Chief Sherpa of (re)ALIGN
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