Education and Workforce Committee
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Demand in the U.S. for educated and skilled workers is rapidly exceeding the supply – from nurses to technicians to engineers. To compete and succeed in an international marketplace for talent, U.S. workers need a 21st century approach to lifelong learning that enables them to develop and refresh the skills needed for high-skilled service and manufacturing jobs.
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Workforce Competitiveness
Demand in the U.S. for educated and skilled workers is rapidly exceeding the supply – from nurses to technicians to engineers. To compete and succeed in an international marketplace for talent, U.S. workers need a 21st century approach to lifelong learning that enables them to develop and refresh the skills needed for high-skilled service and manufacturing jobs. Business Roundtable advocates for education reform to better prepare U.S. students for the 21st century workplace, a more modern and effective workforce training system that gives employees the tools they need to maintain their skills and education, and policies to attract and retain the best and brightest scientists and engineers from around the world to help build U.S. innovation capacity and create new jobs.
To this end, we recently developed JobSTART 101, a free online course for college students and recent college graduates that introduces the professional skills necessary for entry-level employees to succeed in the workplace.