Skills expert Nicholas Wyman speaks with Forbes Social media Editor Kim Horner in the first webinar event of a series called ‘Level Up’ Nicholas Wyman is a workforce development and skills expert, author, speaker and CEO of the Institute for Workplace Skills and Innovation. Nicholas is a leader in developing skills-building, mentorship and apprenticeship programs […]

By 2025, two million jobs will be unfilled because U.S. companies won’t be able to find the skilled labor they need. Many of these jobs provide a middle-class salary — some pay six figures annually — and don’t require a four-year-degree. How to get one of these jobs? Apprenticeships. This age-old practice with origins in […]

By Nicholas Wyman   When a room full of passionate apprenticeship advocates met in Washington last week for the first day of the Apprenticeship Forward conference, the mood was understandably upbeat and optimistic. Why? Because calls for the U.S. to expand apprenticeship programs seem to be gaining more traction daily. And overnight the news had […]

It’s graduation season, which means one thing: lots of unsolicited advice for grads. So, what can we make of this flood of insight? Well, some of it’s good. Some of it’s bad. Some of it’s downright ugly. And then there’s the stuff that’s quite spot-on, but seldom heard. Business Insider spoke with a number of […]

Áine Cai, 10 May 2017 ‘Job interviews are a piece of cake’ Understandably, plenty of recent grads are terrified over the prospect of applying for gigs and lining up job interviews. It’s a stressful process, especially if you’ve never done it before. But sugarcoating reality and telling grads not to fret over job applications is […]