
More than 80% of HR Professionals report challenges recruiting suitable Job candidates.
To help close the skills gap and improve individual prosperity, employers should adopt practices and policies that support efforts to hire, educate and train individuals for the modern workplace.
SHRM Supports
– Work-based Learning: Policies that foster and expand work-based learning opportunities, including apprenticeships and skills-based hiring.
– Accessing Untapped Talent: Initiatives that promote hiring from under utilized talent pools, such as the formerly incarcerated, older workers, individuals with disabilities and veterans.
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COVID-19, Workforce Development, Workplace Equity, Workplace Flexibility & Leave, Workplace Health Care, Workplace Immigration
Fiscal 2021 Omnibus and COVID-19 Relief
On Monday, December 21, Congress passed a year-end bill to fund the government through September 30, 2021 and provide economic relief in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
SHRM@WORK

We have seen drastic changes in the employment market, but the reality is it does nothing to erase the underlying skills gap. In fact, it may exacerbate the skills gap in the long term. We need to continue to forge a better alliance between education and employment, invest in workforce training and open our recruiting efforts to nontraditional pools of talent.
Johnny C. Taylor, Jr.
President and CEO, SHRM