In my column this morning I address the recent Washington Roundtable/Boston Consulting Group report on the skills gap. It’s an urgent problem, one that’s costing us jobs now.
Combining analyses of publicly-available employment and education data with executive interviews, BCG was able to document the economic impact of the skills gap in Washington. The researchers estimate that the mismatch accounts for 25,000 unfilled jobs in Washington today. They count only those jobs that have been unfilled for more than three months because of a lack of qualified candidates. Of those 25,000 jobs, 80 percent are in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields or high-demand health care occupations.
The issue was the subject of an earlier post. Please, give the column a read and let me know what you think.
Washington Research Council 