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Skills shortage hurts bay area IT hiring | Tampa Bay Times - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 20 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 20 Feb 13
     
    Essay written by Heather Kenyon for the Tampa Bay Times, 2.13.13, on the shortage of people with the desired IT skills. Found this via the Encore LinkedIn group. What I find particularly interesting is the employers' desire for critical thinking, communication skills, and "professional curiosity" mentioned below. Nowhere here does it mention the middle aged or older worker; I guess they might have the critical thinking, communication, and curiosity, but not be able to master the IT skills through PD and DIY learning? Excerpt "Topping IT employers' wish lists were candidates who have at least 3-5 years of relevant work experience, bachelor's degrees and capabilities that go beyond the latest technical competencies to show an aptitude for continuous learning and multiple skill acquisition. These include critical thinking and communication skills as well as professional curiosity, which employers seem to find in short supply in the available talent pool. "
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educationtoday: Future shock: Teaching yourself to learn - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 19 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • if you’re not among the 10-15% of the population that has learned how to master and complement computers, you’ll be doomed to earn low wages in dead-end jobs.
  • “There are two things people need to learn how to do to be employable at a decent wage: first, learn some skills which complement the computer rather than compete against it. Some of these are technical skills, but a lot of them will be soft skills, like marketing, persuasion and management that computers won’t be able to do any time soon. 
  • There has arisen a kind of parallel network – a lot of it is on the Internet, a lot of it is free – where people teach themselves things, often very effectively.
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  • Liberal arts education and the humanities will remain important. They’re still underrated. People get their own liberal arts education on the Internet; it may be weird, low-status stuff that a lot of us have never heard of, like computer games, or celebrities or sports analytics.
  • Education occurs in many forms; it’s not the same as schooling. We always need to keep that in mind”.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 19 Aug 15
     
    blog post by Marilyn Achiron citing Tyler Cowen, economist at George Mason University in VA on teaching yourself to learn, July 29, 2015. We have cited Cowen in our blog posts at least once. He is a Uber fan and favors marketplace economics for settling competitive battles. He also embraces ongoing, online learning that people set up for themselves.
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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 30 Nov 14
     
    Future Work Skills Summary by the 2011 Institute for the Future for University of Phoenix Research Institute. All Rights Reserved. Phenomenal graphic on key drivers pushing the development of key job skills in 8 areas. Key drivers include extreme longevity, computational world, superstructed organizations, globally-connected world, new media ecology, rise of smart machines and systems.
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IBM cuts pay by 10% for workers picked for training | Computerworld - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 28 Oct 15
     
    very interesting article on IBM's decision to cut some workers' pay by 10% while they are engaged in a catch-up learning program 1 day a week for six months. Different speculation on why IBM chose to couple pay cut with +performance requirements. From Fall 2014.
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How do we train workers for jobs that don't exist? Executives with nearly 1 million emp... - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 25 May 18 - No Cached
  • “If you're not continuously adapting and changing and embracing… if you don't have a culture of agility within your company to adapt to these changes, you're not going to be successful,” he said.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 25 May 18
     
    "While the leaders on stage understand that they play a critical role in preparing their workers for the future, ultimately they all agreed that they can only do so much. There is an individual responsibility to recognize that the world is changing and continually improve on your own skills, McNamara said."
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