Apprenticeships for Growth

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Middle Skill Jobs the Key to a Prosperous Economy

WTMY-AM Petersburg

Thursday 29 January, 2015

Doug Miles and Nicholas Wyman

The world has changed and constant adaptation is required. College is no longer a guaranteed job and with 1.2 trillion in national student loan debt averaging 30 thousand per person, its an expensive pathway. Doug and Nicholas look at the realistic economic environment and its implication for young job seekers and their prospective employment opportunities.

 

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Employers ready to invest in training and skills

Money Matters Boston –

Stewart Taylor interviews Nicholas Wyman about interesting new opportunities in the job market. These include industry based apprenticeship, Associates Degrees, and meeting job vacancies with the skills companies are actually looking for. Nicholas advocates following your passion and doing what makes you happy rather than focusing solely on money as well as being practical about what career opportunities exist in a changing job market and how you can train and add education to your existing skillset to best meet these demands.

What steps should you take to get the job you want?

The Jim Bohannon Show –

Currently America has 9.1 unemployed people and 4.8 million job unfilled. Nicolas Wyman and Jim Bohannnon discuss this labour market mismatch and its implication for the future of education and our attitude towards it. While European countries such as Switzerland view education as a life long pursuit, the days of attaining a single qualification and not retraining or upskilling seem to be disappearing as technology advances and job requirements rapidly change.

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Real World Skills Emerging as a Classroom Essential

Sonstein Sunday Community Podcast –

The world is changing around us. How do you equip yourself with skills to keep in contention with current and future job requirements.

Author and CEO Nicholas Wyman Talks to Q104.3’s Shelli Sonstein about future proofing your career prospects, training while you are working, and planning for your job future. Nicholas discusses where the current unfilled jobs are and the how to get the skills that employers are looking for as well as the new developing education models that equip graduates with real world job specific skills.

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