Future Jobs: Solving the Employment and Skills Crisis

A pervasive disconnect exists between the job/career culture and the present economic reality in America. This book offers powerful strategies for stemming the employment crisis and proposes comprehensive solutions for businesses government and job seekers alike.More than 30 million Americans are unemployed underemployed or have given up on looking for a job. Undoubtedly the massive economic downturn after the financial crisis of 2007–2008 is a key factor in this situation. But the U.S. job market has stalled because our nation is failing to produce workers with the right skills not because we cannot create enough jobs for the workers. Future Jobs: Solving the Employment and Skills Crisis offers an economic and historical perspective on the evolution of jobs and careers explains how technology has permanently altered the U.S. job/labor market and provides practical information for businesses seeking qualified workers educators preparing students for careers unemployed or underemployed individuals and those interested in changing careers.The book examines the problem of the mismatch between individuals skills and employers job needs from the perspectives of both employers and employees or prospective employees offering comprehensive regional solutions to the issues each group faces. The author reveals the most promising jobs and careers of the next decade for early-career job seekers and workers with established careers looking to change their path and provides potential solutions to the jobs and skills disconnect in America including education reform business and government policy changes and regional public-private partnerships.Explains how the current job skills crisis stems from a broad structural failure of the education-to-employment system and has sweeping societal and economic consequencesIdentifies the hot jobs of the current decade and the requisite skills and educational preparation needed to obtain themDescribes how digital technology has permanently altered the nature of the U.S. and global job/labor marketProvides information critical to a wide audience: businesses seeking to fill vacant jobs community organizations and governments trying to attract new enterprises and retain current businesses educators preparing students for careers and students and parents concerned about job and career options