By Nicholas Wyman Forbes Contributor. There was a time when kids had ample opportunities to experience the adult world of work. Farm family children pitched in whenever needed: they built fences, learned how to tend animals and fix broken tractors, and dozens of other handy skills. City kids worked part-time in hardware stores, grocery stores, […]
“World Class Training: Australia’s WPC Group Provides Training to Kentucky Registered Apprenticeship Team and Businesses” – Frankfort, KY
October 26, 2018—Frankfort, KY. Australia’s WPC Group is providing ongoing training to the Kentucky Registered Apprenticeship team and members of the Commonwealth’s business community. The WPC Group was established in 1982 for the purposes of advancing an apprenticeship training model. Since their establishment, they have placed nearly 12,000 apprentices in stable careers throughout Australia. The […]
‘Hiring Is On The Rise, But Are College Grads Prepared For The World Of Work?’ – Forbes, Online
By Nicholas Wyman, Forbes McGraw-Hill Education’s (MHE) survey on readying college graduates for the workforce is hot off the press. With the school year just around the corner, a new crop of graduates gearing up for their job search after summer break and a robust economy, this survey is timely. In fact, for the class […]
‘Don’t Be So Quick To Dismiss Service Jobs’ – Forbes, Online
Where are the jobs? Today, most are in the service sector. And that’s the forecast for tomorrow, too. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, service jobs will continue to outpace employment in all other sectors for the next quarter century. Let’s put some figures around that. Three service industries that will see an incredible […]
‘Fear Not The Job-Stealing Robots’- Forbes, Online
| June 13, 2018 | by Nicholas Wyman , Contributor | Let’s face it. You’re probably like most people. You’ve heard about workplace automation probably taking your job. But it won’t happen to you or maybe anyone you know, right? Much hot air is spent on the topic of workplace automation and its consequences for […]
Apprenticeships Could Narrow the U.S. Skills Gap – Bloomberg, Online
In mid-March, during one of those CEO meetings that President Donald Trump used to hold before they were disbanded, Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce.com, was asked to make some brief remarks. One of Benioff’s passions is apprenticeships; he believes that if the U.S. had an apprenticeship system like Germany or Australia, it could […]
‘College Grads: What No One Is Telling You About Getting Hired’ Forbes, Online
By Nicholas Wyman. You’ve recently graduated from college and are still job hunting. That’s okay. That mortarboard will give you the edge over your peers who didn’t go to college. In fact, the unemployment rate for those with a college degree sits around 2.4%, and it’s held steady over the past year. That rate was […]
‘Apprenticeships, long common in blue-collar industries, are coming to white-collar office work’ – Washington Post, Online
| by Jena McGregor | Washington Post | Andrew Skelnik grew up in what he calls a “strong blue-collar background” in Chicago. His father was an electrician, his uncle was a carpenter and his first job out of high school was in the mailroom of a printing plant, where he worked his way up to […]
‘How Paid Internships Are Putting Unemployed Youth in Manufacturing Jobs’ – Forbes, Online
By Nicholas Wyman. Youth unemployment is a global issue. According to a McKinsey & Company report, young people worldwide are three times more likely than their parents to be out of work. In the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, more than one in eight of 15 to 24-year-olds are NEET (Not in […]
‘A Career Pathway To Educational And Employment Success’ – Forbes, Online
Bu Nicholas Wyman. New and emerging technologies are redefining the nature of work and job skills at a pace that demands a parallel transformation in education. Sixty-five percent of children starting school today will need skills for jobs that don’t yet exist, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Youth unemployment runs high even as […]
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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. 
