Sara Howren, a vice president for global talent recruitment at Airswift, which hires workers for the energy industry, says colleges need more interaction with companies and hiring managers to expand the understanding of what their graduates’ day-to-day work will be like.
But most employers don’t have the staff to maintain relationships with local colleges. Likewise, colleges need people with deep industry knowledge to sustain relationships. The marriage of work and learning might be one way to keep up, and apprenticeships represent the most profound version of that.
In
Building Tomorrow's Work Force,
The Chronicle spoke to dozens of employers and agencies that work with employers to understand the challenges they see in a very competitive hiring market, the trends they see emerging within their own sectors, and how they think colleges are — or aren’t — helping to meet their needs.
