Posts Tagged ‘employer engagement’

The path to success in the United States is often associated with one’s educational accomplishments. This standard provides a blueprint for young people: graduate high school, earn a bachelor’s degree, and achieve high career outcomes. However, a growing disconnect between education achievement and workforce outcomes threatens economic mobility. The International Labour Organization (ILO, 2021) states…

As NYEC dives into a grant-funded project on sustainable employer engagement, it has uncovered important learning questions along the way. Youth face adversity in their ability to get hired, and one of the most common complaints from employers and our workforce today, are what are often called “soft skills.” Whether called “soft skills,” “power skills,” “21st…