Workforce Development Month 2020

Workforce Development Month 2020

In November 2020, Workforce Development Month, Technical.ly is focused extra reporting on topics like IT training programs, upskilling, tech apprenticeships and pipeline diversity efforts. We explored: What skills are most needed for technical jobs in 2020 and beyond? How are local training programs shifting to meet post-COVID workforce needs? There was also the consideration of jobs and automation: Robotics experts tout STEM education as a path to advanced careers, and the benefits robots can bring to humans in the form of automating mundane tasks (especially those that are "dull, dirty and dangerous"). Amid COVID-19, it's also true that more service and other low-paying jobs became automated and therefore more vulnerable in the long term. Where do Philly, Baltimore, D.C. and Delaware fit into the response?

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