Are They Really Ready to Work?
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Authors:
Jill Casner-Lotto
Linda Barrington
Mary Wright -
Publication Date:
October 2006 -
Report Number:
BED-06-Workforce
In collaboration, The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and The Society for Human Resource Management conducted an in-depth study of the corporate perspective on the readiness of new entrants into the U.S. workforce by level of educational attainment. The study includes results from both an in-depth survey conducted during April and May 2006 and interviews with a sampling of a dozen HR and other senior executives.
In addition, a workforce readiness report card is included which provides a summary of the basic knowledge and applied skills that are either "deficient" or "excellent" in those areas that employer respondents rate as "very important".
You may also be interested in the following:
Listen to a podcast featuring the report's collaborators discussing workforce readiness in the US.
The Workforce Readiness Initiative