Edward de Bono Quotes

Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.

Do you want to use your tax dollars to educate more people who can't get jobs? I want to make sure that we spend our money where people can get jobs when they get out.

One of the big issues in Ohio and elsewhere is people do not have the skills to take advantage of the openings that are out there.

To reap this demographic dividend, we need to enable the youth to acquire skills required to get the job or become self-employed.

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

Most urgent is the good First Job Program, that Lula plans to implement, which hasn't got off the ground.

Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed.

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

Go get a job after you take a bath.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great, you're for job training - I like job training - but do you think the federal government should have 163 different job-training programs?

These days kids get paid enough that they probably don't need to work too much. The problem is when the person is old enough that they need to work to make a living, and the only thing that they know how to do is what they are already washed up in.

Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.

The Scottish Government will continue to do all it can to get people into work.

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.

Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.

We have to create jobs but also make sure that those who are looking for work aren't just left without any assistance whatsoever.

I worked at the Illinois unemployment office. I got $55 a week and the unemployed got $45. And they only had to come in once a week.