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Forbes Business Council: Gen Z’s Toolbelt Generation Is Missing Important Tools—Here’s How Leaders Can Help
In 2024, The Wall Street Journal published an article, “How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation” (paywall), about students choosing the trades over traditional four-year colleges. There were many reasons, including lower educational costs, less time in the classroom, increased earnings for skilled labor because of skilled-labor shortages and investing in AI-proof professions. I can attest that this trend is real. Enrollment in technical colleges like mine has risen sharply. But many educators and employers are noticing something else: that the toolbelt generation may be missing a few important tools—specifically emotional maturity, social skills and accountability.
India Today: AI can write code, but can't wire a house: Why I'm training to be an electrician
Like most Gen Zs, I was encouraged to follow my passions. For me, that was photography, which was my college major until COVID-19 derailed my short-lived college career.
I’m a Mechanic: 3 Signs It’s Time To Say Goodbye to Your Old Car
If you have an old vehicle, you might be getting frustrated with a frequent need for repairs or a lack of features that new cars have. If that’s the case, you might be itching to ditch your old car and get a new one, especially with maintenance and repair costs outpacing inflation over the past year. On average, consumers spend $838 each time they get their car fixed, Kelley Blue Book reported.
However, the cost of buying a new or used vehicle is also getting more expensive, and in many cases, the most economical way to be a vehicle owner is to keep your car for as long as possible. Even if a repair bill seems like a tough pill to swallow, it can quickly pay for itself.
Training Magazine: How to Build an Employer-First Model to Close the Skills Gap
Discover how the employer-first model can transform trades education to better prepare students for modern workforce needs.
Forbes Business Council: Collaboration Over Competition: What The Trades Can Teach About Leadership
The most resilient organizations don’t “win” by crushing their competitors, as Gordon Gekko suggests. Rather, they grow and endure by strengthening—and actively engaging in—the ecosystems around them.
Engineering News-Record: Building the Future Workforce: Lessons in Partnership from Rosedale Technical College
For the past several years, construction companies across the country have been facing a familiar but intensifying challenge: too many open positions, and too few people ready to fill them. The solution to this problem won’t be solved with generic workforce programs or optimistic national initiatives—it starts closer to home, locally, with personalized partnerships between contractors and the many CTEs, community college construction programs, and training institutions preparing the next generation of skilled workers.
Dennis Wilke Of Rosedale Technical College: 5 Ways Empathy Will Affect Your Leadership
Empathy, the ability to understand and share the feelings of another, is increasingly recognized as a pivotal leadership trait. In an ever-evolving business landscape, leaders who exhibit genuine empathy are better equipped to connect, inspire, and drive their teams towards success. But how exactly does empathy shape leadership dynamics? How can it be harnessed to foster stronger relationships, improved decision-making, and a more inclusive work environment?
Western Pa. higher ed leaders talk affordability, accessibility during state hearing
… , Carlow University, Pennsylvania Western University and Rosedale Technical College. Local business leaders, community leaders, faculty, …