Skills shortages affect businesses as well as job seekers.
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As businesses race to adopt AI, you might worry that the experience and expertise you’ve built up has become a lot less valuable. But you still have more control over your future than you think.
College students should be more intentional when preparing for the job market, and could consider internships and short-term jobs to help them get ahead.
It’s not a straight path from education to making a living, and universities should prepare graduates to find their way.
By building and maintaining a personal brand, young social media users can identify work opportunities.
For a long time, arts organisations retained staff attracted to the ‘romance of being creative’. That’s no longer enough.
Artificial intelligence makes it possible to create a highly adaptable, module-based curriculum backed by a system that actively guides students’ choices based on their desired jobs.
The question for universities is no longer whether to offer work-integrated learning but how to do it well, especially now that digital technology has expanded the scale of what is possible.
Demand for professional development has grown but the pandemic has forced it online. Decades of evidence from online education tells us how to ensure professional development remains effective.
Volunteering can improve your life physically, mentally and emotionally. And it might help you find your next job.
While skilled migration can help fill short-term gaps, Australia needs a more sustainable, long-term approach to skills matching and development to make the most of the people who are already here.
Basing the worth of a degree on how much graduates earn overlooks whether there is something intrinsically valuable about higher education itself.
Teaching children digital literacy skills is essential to help them learn how to navigate and respond to misinformation. It also helps them grow into adults who can participate in digital democracy.
In these troubled economic times, skills and technology are key to lifting the UK out of the productivity doldrums.
The federal government must take a stronger leadership role to ensure the many bodies that co-ordinate employment training programs are sharing information to develop best practices.
After analysing posts from 100,000 Twitter users, our research used big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence to reveal the hidden personality traits underpinning thousands of jobs.
From the biggest ‘wicked’ problems on down, finding solutions to challenges depends on working together collaboratively. Students think they’re good at this, but they aren’t. Here’s what could help.
Tips help, but government policy should focus on progression and skills first.
Tech companies that have been wary to hire anyone over 30 are missing out on skilled workers.
The prospect of a post-Brexit talent exodus and the ongoing productivity puzzle underline the urgency of developing homegrown talent.
Top contributors
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Professor of Education & Policy, Boston College
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Professor in Innovation, Flinders University
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Associate Professor in Industrial Economics, University of Nottingham
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Professor of computer science at the University of Toronto and the former CEO & founder of MITACS, University of Toronto
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Honorary Principal Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Director, Peter Noonan Policy Impact Program, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University
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Research Officer, Wales Centre for Public Policy, Cardiff University
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Project Lead + Founder of Palette Skills Inc., Toronto Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Geography and Tourism Studies, specializing in economic geography, regional development and cultural industries, Brock University
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PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
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Professor of AI and Behavioral Data Science, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Economics, University of Edinburgh
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Associate Professor, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University
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Economist
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Mitchell Professorial Fellow, Victoria University