Workforce Readiness Quotes

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

Starting in high school and continuing through our higher education system, we must ensure our students are on the right path to acquiring marketable skills that will lead to a productive and satisfying career. My goal is for every student to get a job after they graduate – not move back in with his or her parents. To do that, we must emphasize skill attainment in our community colleges and universities, use our resources more efficiently and measure success in a comprehensive way.

We need more partnerships like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can get the training they need to get hired right out of school.

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.

My administration is focused on continuing to grow our economic foundation while ensuring emerging industries have the infrastructure and workforce they need to succeed in the global economy.

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.

As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, I understand the importance access to high quality education plays in preparing our children to learn and compete in a competitive, global workforce.

It's important for students to learn to make smart money management decisions before heading off to college or the entering the workforce.

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

From a young age I had a real sense of the world of work. This is what vocational education gives you.

Skills-building opportunities should be extended to people outside of the mainstream talent pool. That might include at-risk youth, veterans returning to the workforce, or immigrants struggling to make a life for themselves in a foreign culture. The process for creating wealth must begin with creating opportunity for all.

Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

By allowing many adult learners to retrain and upskill throughout their careers, colleges provide expertise for key sectors.

I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy.

I am honored to be selected as the first-ever PGA WORKS Ambassador. Through CORE4, we are committed to training, educating and guiding young men and women toward success in everything they do in life.

The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

If you're waiting for the job, you're dead.

The capability of the nation's workforce is a national security matter.

One thousand dollars invested in salvaging an unemployable youth can return forty thousand dollars or more in his lifetime.

We have to get back to universities being more focused on education and more connected on what they educate students for to the jobs that actually exist.

What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

There needs to be more schemes to help young people build careers in fashion, like apprenticeships.

I have a vision of education that spans from early childhood to K-12 to college to the workforce. Because every step along the way is important: a chance for our state to do right by our kids and their parents - or to let them down.