Jersey City, NJ - "Another opening, another show," Hudson County County Executive Tom DeGise said at the ground-breaking ceremony for a new Hudson County Community College building today.
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Washington D.C. - According to Mary Madda, "North America is home to more than a dozen edtech incubators, LearnLaunch in Boston to Imagine K12 in California -- and MaRS in Toronto. Now the Department of Education is amping up those efforts by launching its own ‘Edtech Developer’s Tour’--a series of 18 events designed to spur collaboration among entrepreneurs, developers, educators, funders, and students and more."
New Brunswick, NJ - The Rutgers University iJOBS Program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, prepares biomedical scientists for a range of careers in five professional tracks: i) science and health policy, ii) business management, iii) intellectual property management, iv) clinical and regulatory sciences, and v) health and science data analysis.
Jersey City, NJ - Employers are invited to explore financial support for training new hires at an Employer Summit on May 28. NJBIA has partnered with the New Jersey Community College Consortium to host the Ready to Work New Jersey Employer Summit. Employers will learn how they can receive funding for hiring new employees and interns that come out of the workforce program. With funds coming from the US and NJ Department of Labor grant, employers can work with the consortium to cover these expenses at no cost to their business.
Mount Laurel, NJ - Leading advanced manufacturing firms are invited to an industry-specific forum at Burlington County College (BCC) on June 11 that will help shape the county’s workforce training and educational programs serving this growing sector. The forum, scheduled for Thursday, June 11, in the Enterprise Center at Burlington County College, is sponsored by the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders and BCC as part of the countywide Workforce Development Institute and the college’s strategic planning process.
Jersey City, NJ - In October, 2014 the Consortium was awarded a $10M grant by US Department of Labor to assist NJ’s long-term unemployed (for 27 weeks or more) to get back to work in three industries: Advanced Manufacturing, Information Technology and Life Sciences. NJ Department of Labor supplemented the award with $2M to expand our work to other key industries: Financial Services, Healthcare, Transportation, Logistics, Distribution, Retail, Travel and Tourism. The grant period is four years ending November, 2018.
Trenton, NJ - Businesses are ready to invest in expansion and employment, but they are holding back because of uncertainty about what policymakers may do that could impact the economy. In this month’s New Jersey CPA magazine, NJBIA President Michele Siekerka explains what legislators need to do to reassure employers and spark the kind of private-sector growth and job creation New Jersey needs.
Washington D.C. - Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce released a study last week that shows that students who major in health, STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — and business fields end up with higher average annual wages at the entry level and over the course of a person’s career. The lowest-paying majors were in the arts, liberal arts and humanities. The study used United States Census data to examine the wages for 137 college majors to identify the most economically beneficial undergraduate areas of study.
Washington D.C. - According to a new report by the National Science Board (NSB), in 2010, 16.5 million individuals indicated that their job required at least a bachelor's degree level in a STEM field. The 2014 report titled, Revisiting the STEM Workforce explains there are many positions that require STEM that have traditional thought of as STEM jobs such as sales, marketing, and management. The NSB is the policymaking body for the National Science Foundation and has made several recommendations to strengthen the U.S. stem workforce.
Washington D.C. - The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Aspen Institute have partnered and will competitively select six groups from across the country comprised of industry, government, education, workforce, and economic development leaders, each of which is pursuing employer-driven talent development strategies that promote economic growth and opportunity in their regions. Through a $500,000 grant from DOC’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), the Aspen Institute Workforce Strategies Initiative (AspenWSI) will lead the initiative, providing technical assistance and leadership development resources.
Trenton, NJ - CBRE, one of the is the world's largest commercial real estate services firm, has put Edison and Newark on the Top 50 U.S. markets for their ability to attract and grow tech talent. The report places Edison at No. 16, making it the second-highest-ranked small market, defined as having a tech labor pool of less than 50,000. Newark is ranked No. 27 overall and sixth in small markets. CBRE found Edison has 48,810 such employees — a tech talent concentration that is nearly 50 percent greater than the U.S. average — while Newark has nearly 33,000.
Trenton, NJ - George Saliba of NJ Business Magazine wrote an excellent story on how technological advancements has connected the world and created a greater demand on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) occupations.
Trenton, NJ – In a press conference this week, the New Jersey Senate Republican leadership released a 36 bill package to improve the state of innovation, the strengthen the workforce and grow the economy. The bills seek to usher in growth through policies pertaining to science and technology, STEM education, improving the state’s existing economic development practices, regulation reductions as well as agriculture enhancements without adding additional costs to the budget.
According to the center’s director, Anthony P. Carnevale, “Our research also finds that key job growth has occurred in careers demanding high skilled workers in offices, hospitals and schools. Manufacturing jobs and other blue-collar jobs are declining and college-educated workers now produce more than half of the nation’s annual economic value. In 1967, college graduates accounted for 13 percent of workers and more than 20 percent of wages, but now account for 34 percent of workers and 53 percent of wages."
This increase of wealth has shifted consumer demand from mass produced goods to mass customization of goods and services. American’s spend less on clothing and food: food and clothing dropped 27 percent since 1947. This trend allows U.S. citizens more discretionary funds to spend. For the complete report: https://cew.georgetown.edu/report/economygoestocollege/ Lexington, KY - This week, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) released State IT Workforce: Facing Reality with Innovation, surveying the current landscape of the state Information Technology workforce and details innovative techniques state IT agencies are using to recruit and retain both entry level and highly skilled personnel. The study found that over 90 percent of government respondents said a state’s salary rates and pay grade structures present a challenge in attracting and retaining IT talent. “What intensifies the severity of this response is that, in the 2011 NASCIO workforce report, 78.6 percent answered yes [to the same question],” said Meredith Ward, senior policy analyst at NASCIO and author of the report.
The association previously released reports on IT workforce in 2007 and 2011. But in 2015, "human resources/talent management" made NASCIO’s “Top Ten” list of CIO priorities again for the first time in several years, causing the organization to re-examine the issue. “We know that states face recruiting difficulties because of several issues and a big one can be public perception of state public service,” said Ward. In fact, 86 percent of states are having difficulty recruiting new employees to fill vacant IT positions, according to the report, and 46 percent of states report that it is taking three to five months to fill senior level IT positions. But states that innovate have a better chance of getting and keeping the IT talent they need, the report states. “Consolidation and restructuring the IT organization has created tremendous opportunities to retain top talent,” according to the report. “States have and will continue to be creative,” said Ward “One CIO described putting an emphasis on training, professional development and the career ladder, whether or not that career is with their department. They encourage professional development and have found many are seeking to grow and stay, not leave.” For the full report: http://www.nascio.org/workforce/ |
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