Skills to Drive Economic Recovery, Mobility, and Equity
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This brief explores how a focus on skills, skills transferability, and skills similarity across occupations and industries can help to support innovation, address historic inequities, help communities weather economic change, and build long-term resilience.
Individuals’ greater awareness of their skills profiles can help them consider a broader range of career options, repurpose skills for new and emerging opportunities, and become more resilient during times of crisis. Companies facing workforce shortages can orient around skills in order to identify and access new sources of talent, both internally and externally. And a skills orientation can allow educators, civic leaders, and economic developers to more efficiently invest in skills development and promote skills as a formidable asset for business attraction, retention, and expansion. |
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