Workforce Management

Needed: A Reskilling Revolution

About 1.4 million Americans will lose their jobs to technological change in the next eight years, according to a new report from the Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum, “Towards a Reskilling Revolution.” One million of those will have a job type that just disappears. Women are projected to be disproportionately affected.

As its title suggests, the report calls for a “reskilling revolution”: “To make reskilling real, and prepare for accelerated structural change of the labour market, a wide range of stakeholders— governments, employers, individuals, educational institutions and labour unions, among others—will need to learn to come together, collaborate and pool their resources more than ever before.

“For businesses, working together across traditional industry boundaries and, sometimes, with their competitors, in order to ensure they have the talent for tomorrow they need, will hold significant benefits but require new ways of thinking and working as well.” 1/24/2018

OhioMeansJobs-Readiness Seal for Students

Ohio high school students now can earn recognition by showing they are prepared to contribute to the workplace and their communities. The OhioMeansJobs-Readiness Seal is a formal designation students can earn on their high school diplomas and transcripts indicating they have the personal strengths, strong work ethic and professional experience that businesses need.

According to the program, ways a company can show support for students who have earned or are pursuing the OhioMeansJobs-Readiness Seal include:

• Guarantee interviews for students who have earned the Readiness Seal;
• Encourage current high school interns/employees to earn the Readiness Seal; and
• Encourage your employees to serve as mentors to students in your local school district. (Read more about what an OhioMeansJobs-Readiness Seal mentor does here.)

To learn more about how the OhioMeansJobs-Readiness Seal is awarded, please visit the OhioMeansJobs-Readiness Seal website or contact Emily Modell, Strategy & Partnership Lead, Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation. 1/16/2018