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Index
Contents
Preface
Introduction
A Failure of Imagination
Chapter 1: Why Aren’t the Vacancies Being Filled?
The Home Depot Syndrome
A Real-World Job Market
Competition for Jobs in the Market Is Relative
Chapter 2: The Skills Gap Debate: Deconstructing Demand
Myth: Employers can’t find workers with adequate skills to fill available jobs.
Myth: Employers can’t find workers willing to take jobs at the going wages.
Myth: Skill shortages are only part of the problem. Employers must also deal with a lack of knowledge and experience.
Myth: Even when workers are skilled, knowledgeable, and experienced—and the pay is commensurate with talent—they are often reluctant to go where the good jobs are.
Chapter 3: Workforce Facts and Myths: Parsing Supply
Myth: Students lack the basic competency needed to succeed in the workplace.
Myth: Public schools are failing their students, their families, the nation’s employers, and society as a whole.
Myth: Not enough Americans are graduating from college.
Myth: Even among college graduates, too many didn’t major in fields where the jobs are.
Myth: As we enter a knowledge economy that will demand ever more sophisticated skill sets for survival, things will only get worse.
Chapter 4: Something Is Wrong with the Hiring Process
Software-Driven Hiring
Beat the Software
Hiring by the Numbers
Chapter 5: A Training Gap, Not a Skills Gap
The Skills Standoff
The Real Skills Failure
Chapter 6: The Way Forward
A Not-So-Novel Idea: Developing Skills on and for the Job
In-house training programs
Employer/employee-shared training programs
Public-sector/private-sector shared undertakings
Broader-based alliances
Apprenticeship programs
Flying Blind
Money Talks
About the Author
About Wharton Digital Press
About The Wharton School
Notes
© 2012 by Peter Cappelli
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