A new visual vocabulary to bridge brainpower gaps
One of the more significant challenges we face involves coming up with a new visual language to bridge the gap in understanding among employers, job seekers, education specialists, and workforce groups. We need new ways of communicating the complex competencies -- knowledge, skills and abilities -- that characterize emerging occupations and new career pathways. One example of the new language comes in the excellent work taking place in Oregon to chart new career pathways. http://www.worksourceoregon.org/index.php/career-pathways/127-oregon-career-p... Last week, I was in Milwaukee with Linda Fowler of Regionerate and Hamilton Galloway of EMSI. For the past few months we have been working with EMSI to begin developing some new approaches to bridging these gaps.
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