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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815073103321

Autore

Gordon Edward E

Titolo

Winning the global talent showdown : how businesses and communities can partner to rebuild the jobs pipeline / / Edward E. Gordon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, : U.S. trade Bookstores and wholesalers, Ingram Publisher Service, c2009

ISBN

1-282-30029-6

9786612300295

1-57675-483-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Collana

A BK business book

Disciplina

331.12/042

Soggetti

Job creation

Ability

Globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Americas -- Asia -- Europe and Russia -- Expanding the talent pool -- Fixing the education-to-employment system -- Producing new talent.

Sommario/riassunto

In the next few years the world will be facing a huge talent shortage. Demographic trends in America, Europe, Russia, and Japan are reducing the pool of new workers. As the need for talent grows, China's and India's educational systems won't be able to produce enough qualified graduates for themselves, let alone the rest of the world. But the heart of the problem is that the education-to-employment system worldwide is badly outmoded. We're not producing graduates with the kinds of technical, communications, and thinking skills needed in the 21st century.In Winning the Global Talent Showdown, E