Young people bring a variety of strengths to the workforce, including creativity, adaptability, technology savvy, and global awareness. Today’s leadership and job skills development programs offer opportunities across the pipeline to cultivate these competencies i... More »

Human Capital , Higher Education , Career Development

Leadership Development , Skills Gap , Competencies , Global Workforce Development , Communication , Career Development , Students

A handful of students within the business and engineering schools at San Jose State University in California are headed for careers in service-related industries with an expanded set of marketable skills. A specially devised curriculum shared by the two schools includes... More »

Career Development , Human Capital

Career Planning , Competencies , Economy , Global Workforce Development , Jobs , Skills Gap , Students , Trends

Data from a 2008 Bersin & Associates study of more than 800 HR and learning professionals supports the need for informal learning strategies in today's challenging business climate. The study reports that 80 percent of all corporate learning takes place through on-t... More »

Learning Technologies

Career Development , Competencies , E-Learning , Informal Learning , Mobile Learning , Social Learning , Students