Job Prospects and a Successful Career
The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine
ABC Radio 774 Melbourne | 2 February 2016 |
Host Jon Faine speaks with guests Nicholas Wyman, CEO and Author of ‘Job U – Find Your Path to a Successful Career in a Tough Job Market’ and Prof Paul Kofman, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Melbourne concerning the current disparity between skilled occupations and the skill set of school leaving applicants in Australia, how Australia compares with the rest of the world in this regard, and the current reality facing apprenticeship and university graduates regarding job prospects and developing a successful career path.
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Practical, real-world job skills of increasing value
| Radio @BH | 28 January 2016
Broken Hill Radio 2BH breakfast news host Kate Drinkwater talks with CEO and author
Nicholas Wyman concerning the real world value of a university degree in the current jobs market and talks about the practical needs of Australian employers and training alternatives to efficiently meet these requirements.
Apprenticeships and technical training in the ‘ideas boom’
ABC Breakfast | 27 January 2016
Over the next week, students across the country will head back to school to start the new year.
And as teenagers reach their final school years, many hear the same message: ‘put your head down, study hard, go to university’.
But there’s a growing push back that says that university isn’t always the answer.
Nicholas Wyman, CEO of the Institute for Workplace Skills and Innovation, has spent several years looking at how governments around the world tackle apprenticeships and technical training.
He’s written a new book called Job U, and he joins Fran Kelly on RN Breakfast.
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Drive 774 with Patricia Karvelas
https://soundcloud.com/skills-research-audio/abc-774-drive-with-patricia-karvelas-161014
Nicholas Wyman is a speaker and expert on applying real-world solutions to the challenges companies face in finding skilled employees. He is CEO of the Institute for Workplace Skills and Innovation, which develops mentoring programs for corporations and places people in apprenticeship and training programs globally. He has an MBA and has studied at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government. 
