Category Archives: workforce
Rock Stars, Regions & Resilience
Rock Stars It’s funny how, depending on the lens you use, certain people can become your own personal rock star. I recently attended an International Economic Development Council (IEDC) event in Texas. I was pulling all of my best networking moves and finally decided I needed to take a break and actually “listen” to one [...]
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Getting Strategic About Skills
NOTE: This is the third in our recent “let’s share the findings from all those OECD reports with each other (and the world)” series. Again, the content is not likely scintillating, but it’s important to us, and we’re happy to let you in on it. The OECD Designing Local Skills Strategies Report (2009) focuses largely [...]
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Labor Market Policy: It’s About More Than Skills
NOTE: This is a continuation of the series we warned you about a few days ago. We are summarizing several large reports for each other (members of the Community Team at CSW), but we’re doing it here so you can benefit too – you know, if you are interested (since you found your way here [...]
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