#workforcedevelopment — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/222866/ Talent Scarcity in Nigeria: A Response to Moniepoint CEO #EmployerResponsibility #HumanResources #LaborMarket #Moniepoint #Nigeria #NigerianStartups #NigerianTalent #TalentDevelopment #TalentScarcity #TosinEniolorunda #WorkforceDevelopment
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Australia's Northern Economies Require Security-Focused Boost
With a severe shortage of workers in the Northern Territory, where only 7% of employers feel adequately staffed, the region is crying out for a security-focused boost to attract and retain the 14,000 extra workers it desperately needs over the next five years. Labour shortages are already crippling key industries like…
#WorkforceDevelopment #LaborShortages #EconomicGrowth #NorthernTerritory #Australia
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US Spy Agencies Face AI Workforce Overhaul Challenges
The US spy agencies are racing to revamp their AI workforce to stay ahead of adversaries, with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency aiming to complete a major workforce and IT transformation within three to five years. This overhaul will enable the agency to safely harness AI and keep pace with rival nations.
#ArtificialIntelligence #NationalSecurity #UsGovernment #WorkforceDevelopment #AiAdoption
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Google invests $10 million to teach factory workers AI as automation anxiety grows
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/google-ai-training-manufacturing-workers/
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FYI: Google backs 14 bipartisan bills to shield US workers from AI job disruption: Google today endorsed 14 bipartisan bills in Congress aimed at preparing the U.S. workforce for AI-driven job changes, covering training, tax credits, and data collection. https://ppc.land/google-backs-14-bipartisan-bills-to-shield-us-workers-from-ai-job-disruption/ #AI #JobDisruption #BipartisanBills #WorkforceDevelopment #TechPolicy
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I’d be interested in people’s thoughts and opinions about data centers. I think there are plenty of concerns around them, especially the energy portion of them.
My thoughts: AI will penetrate into almost everything over the next ten years. Currently, the focus is on bottom line (lay offs) and the trivial (“generate pictures”).
But the real fear is that a broad workforce development effort is lacking. My proposal would then be to rebrand data centers into innovation centers, focus on making them accessible to universities and vocational training programs, and create a new class of jobs or uplevel existing ones so as to prepare the broader workforce to thrive in an AI economy. So each data centers becomes an educational campus.
Case in point: Texas is 120,000 (!) qualified workers short. Electricians, fork lift operators, concrete and HVAC people, etc.
If there was a broad workforce development program implemented, not only would these people not be laid off, they’d have a wage increase of about 30%. -
AI Adoption Accelerates in Latin America, but Challenges Remain
Latin American organizations, including Mexican SMEs and startups, are accelerating AI adoption to improve operational efficiency, …
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #AI #AIAdoption #aiinfrastructure #digitaltransformation #enterprisetechnology #Governance #innovation #Latinamerica #México #OperationalEfficiency #productivity #responsibleai #smes #startups #Talent #talentmanagement #workforcedevelopment
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All these articles about AI-proofing your career make it seem as if upskilling is only the responsibility of the employee. Where are the calls for workforce development from an employer's side?
#AI #education #workforcedevelopment
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🥁 We're delighted to be announcing our newest #SecureAcademy partner! 🥁
Welcome to the family, Ulster University 🤩
SecureAcademy is Check Point's cyber education program, which provides cutting-edge cyber educational content through partnerships with higher learning institutions and non-profit organizations - providing them with a yearly grant of up to $60K worth of content and services.
#cybersecurity #cybersecurityeducation #checkpoint #impact #workforcedevelopment
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What are your thoughts on AI? The recent field experiments suggest real productivity gains but also raise questions about skills, inequality, and long-term impact. Are we ready for what's coming? #GenerativeAI #FutureOfWork #AIProductivity #AIEthics #DigitalTransformation #WorkforceDevelopment
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Since 2008 I've used social media & my blog to try to connect people in the #youthDevelopment #workforceDevelopment #ecosystem. I wrote about "purpose driven boards" in this article. tutormentor.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-lo... I don't have thousands of followers so depend on others to share it.
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As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond
#HackerNews #BotStudents #CommunityColleges #EducationChallenges #HigherEd #WorkforceDevelopment
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🔐 Veterans bring unmatched skills to cybersecurity—but they need better support.
Many veterans transition out of service with mission-driven discipline, security-first thinking, and technical training. Yet too often, they hit barriers:
・📄 Civilian hiring systems can’t translate military resumes
・🗣️ There’s a “language gap” between military and corporate cyber
・🔗 They often lack industry connections or mentorsOrganizations like SANS Cyber Academy and CyberVets are closing those gaps with intensive, no-cost training and mentorship programs.
If your company wants to tap into this rich talent pool, don’t just hire veterans—prepare your systems and support to help them thrive.
#CyberSecurity #VeteransInTech #WorkforceDevelopment #DiversityInCyber #CyberTalent #ITLeadership #HiringStrategies
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Digital badges, intended as markers of educational attainment, lack standardization and clarity, limiting their value for employers. It's time to leverage AI and digital transformation to instill trust in digital credentials, enhancing their role in lifelong learning.
#DigitalTransformation #AI #LifelongLearning #Education #WorkforceDevelopment
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Is there a platform where all these are on one on going conversation? #after-school, #non-school, #YouthDevelopment #WorkforceDevelopment #philanthropy #research #media #policy #education #equality #EqualOpportunity #SocialCapital
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:eabbjcxbu7vlvybsmksh6i52/post/3ljft5gxuuc26 -
There is no shortage of tools and solutions in cybersecurity, but there is a shortage of people.
I’ve sat across from talented professionals who didn’t think they were ‘cyber material’ because they lacked traditional experience. That mindset costs us great people.
✅ A junior sysadmin who built out processes? That’s risk management.
✅ A developer who fixed messy code? That’s vulnerability reduction.
Sometimes, we just need to help people see it.
For cybersecurity leaders:
Look beyond resumes. Find aptitude, not just credentials.
𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨. 𝘿𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢.
𝗪𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺—𝘄𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲.
#CyberSecurity #WorkforceDevelopment #Leadership #Upskilling #CyberTalent
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ICYMI: Maritime News - The Future of Maritime Human Capital: Empowering a Skilled Workforce for Emerging Challenges https://yourmaritime.com/blog-news/the-future-of-maritime-human-capital-empowering-a-skilled-workforce-for-emerging-challenges?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon - Visit Website #MaritimeIndustry #WorkforceDevelopment #DigitalTransformation #Sustainability #GreenShipping
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BIT is thrilled to announce that the U.S. Department of Education has awarded the Blind Institute of Technology a multi-year grant through the Disability Innovation Fund to support our project, 'Empowering an Inclusive Economy'.
#Inclusion #WorkforceDevelopment #Accessibility #BreakingBarriers #TeamBIT
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NASA IV&V Facility Expands Cybersecurity Work and Educational Outreach https://thecyberexpress.com/nasa-ivv-cybersecurity-educational-outreach/ #workforcedevelopment #TheCyberExpressNews #CybersecurityNews #softwaretesting #TheCyberExpress #FirewallDaily #cybersecurity #spacemissions #CyberThreats #IV&VFacility #Education #NASA
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I'm not sure I heard anyone talking about #WorkforceDevelopment or the #skills shortage at the #DNC, but hope to see a focus on this in the Harris/Walz administration.
Borrow from ideas I've share for many years. https://tutormentor.blogspot.com/search/label/workforce
If you have a blog with articles like this, posted over the past 10 to 15 years, please share the link.
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CW: Instagram Reel
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The global health community has long grappled with the challenge of providing effective, scalable training to health workers, particularly in resource-constrained settings.
In recent years, digital learning platforms have emerged as a potential solution, promising to deliver accessible, engaging, and impactful training at scale.
Imagine a digital platform intended to train health workers at scale.
Their theory of change rests on a few key assumptions:
- Offering simplified, mobile-friendly courses will make training more accessible to health workers.
- Incorporating videos and case studies will keep learners engaged.
- Quizzes and knowledge checks will ensure learning happens.
- Certificates, continuing education credits, and small incentives will motivate course completion.
- Growing the user base through marketing and partnerships is the path to impact.
On the surface, this seems sensible.
Mobile optimization recognizes health workers’ technological realities.
Multimedia content seems more engaging than pure text.
Assessments appear to verify learning.
Incentives promise to drive uptake.
Scale feels synonymous with success.
While well-intentioned, such a platform risks falling into the trap of a behaviorist learning agenda.
This is an approach that, despite its prevalence, is a pedagogical dead-end with limited potential for driving meaningful, sustained improvements in health worker performance and health outcomes.
It is a paradigm that views learners as passive recipients of information, where exposure equals knowledge acquisition.
It is a model that privileges standardization over personalization, content consumption over knowledge creation, and extrinsic rewards over intrinsic motivation.
It fails to account for the rich diversity of prior experiences, contexts, and challenges that health workers bring to their learning.
Most critically, it neglects the higher-order skills – the critical thinking, the adaptive expertise, the self-directed learning capacity – that are most predictive of real-world performance.
Clicking through screens of information about neonatal care, for example, is not the same as developing the situational judgment to adapt guidelines to a complex clinical scenario, nor the reflective practice to continuously improve.
Moreover, the metrics typically prioritized by behaviorist platforms – user registrations, course completions, assessment scores – are often vanity metrics.
They create an illusion of progress while obscuring the metrics that truly matter: behavior change, performance improvement, and health outcomes.
A health worker may complete a generic course on neonatal care, for example, but this does not necessarily translate into the situational judgment to adapt guidelines to complex clinical scenarios, nor the reflective practice to continuously improve.
The behaviorist paradigm’s emphasis on information transmission and standardized content may stem from an implicit assumption that health workers at the community level do not require higher-order critical thinking skills – that they simply need a predetermined set of knowledge and procedures.
This view is not only paternalistic and insulting, but it is also fundamentally misguided.
A robust body of scientific evidence on learning culture and performance demonstrates that the most effective organizations are those that foster continuous learning, critical reflection, and adaptive problem-solving at all levels.
Health workers at the frontlines face complex, unpredictable challenges that demand situational judgment, creative thinking, and the ability to learn from experience.
Failing to cultivate these capacities not only underestimates the potential of these health workers, but it also constrains the performance and resilience of health systems as a whole.
Even if such a platform achieves its growth targets, it is unlikely to realize its impact goals.
Health workers may dutifully click through courses, but genuine transformative learning remains elusive.
The alternative lies in a learning agenda grounded in advances of the last three decades learning science.
These advances remain largely unknown or ignored in global health.
This approach positions health workers as active, knowledgeable agents, rich in experience and expertise.
It designs learning experiences not merely to transmit information, but to foster critical reflection, dialogue, and problem-solving.
It replaces generic content with authentic, context-specific challenges, and isolated study with collaborative sense-making in peer networks.
It recognizes intrinsic motivation – the desire to grow, to serve, to make a difference – as the most potent driver of learning.
Here, success is measured not in superficial metrics, but in meaningful outcomes: capacity to lead change in facilities and communities that leads to tangible improvements in the quality of care.
Global health leaders faces a choice: to settle for the illusion of progress, or to invest in the deep, difficult work of authentic learning and systemic change, commensurate with the complexity and urgency of the task at hand.
Image: The Geneva Learning Foundation Collection © 2024
https://redasadki.me/2024/06/30/learn-health-but-beware-of-the-behaviorist-trap/
#behaviorism #eLearning #healthTraining #HealthLearn #HRH #HumanResourcesForHealth #learningCulture #learningStrategy #workforceDevelopment
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I felt hopeful after my GP referred me. Four years on, I'm still waiting to be seen
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/i-felt-hopeful-after-my-gp-referred-me-four-years-on-i-m-still-waiting-to-be-seen/ar-BB1lEuvb?ei=11#GenderIdentityClinics
#GIC
#WaitingLists
#CassReport
#StaffShortage
#Investment
#WorkforceDevelopment
#Trans
#Transphobia
#GenderAffirmingHealthcare
#GIDS
#Tavistock
#DIYHealthcare
#PubertyBlockers
#Hormones
#Suicide
#Labour
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I felt hopeful after my GP referred me. Four years on, I'm still waiting to be seen
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/i-felt-hopeful-after-my-gp-referred-me-four-years-on-i-m-still-waiting-to-be-seen/ar-BB1lEuvb?ei=11#GenderIdentityClinics
#GIC
#WaitingLists
#CassReport
#StaffShortage
#Investment
#WorkforceDevelopment
#Trans
#Transphobia
#GenderAffirmingHealthcare
#GIDS
#Tavistock
#DIYHealthcare
#PubertyBlockers
#Hormones
#Suicide
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🔒 SANS Cybersecurity Academies just opened their applications - 100% scholarships available - GFACT, GSEC, and GCIH! Are you a diverse candidate interested in cybersecurity? SANS has a special program offering free training, opportunities to meet industry experts, and a pathway to get certified.
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🎓 SANS OnDemand courses
📚 SANS #GIAC CertificationThe Women Immersion Academy offers a 6-month tailored cybersecurity training.
Learn more here - Women Immersion Academy: https://www.sans.org/cyber-academy/womens-academy/
🎓 Free training
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Find more details here - Veterans Success Academy: https://www.sans.org/cyber-academy/vetsuccess/
📅 6-month program
🎓 SANS OnDemand courses
📚 SANS #GIAC CertificationThe Women Immersion Academy offers a 6-month tailored cybersecurity training.
Learn more here - Women Immersion Academy: https://www.sans.org/cyber-academy/womens-academy/
🎓 Free training
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🔒 SANS Cybersecurity Academies just opened their applications - 100% scholarships available - GFACT, GSEC, and GCIH! Are you a diverse candidate interested in cybersecurity? SANS has a special program offering free training, opportunities to meet industry experts, and a pathway to get certified.
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