Employers

Michele Siekerka, the president and CEO of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association, received the CTE Leadership Award from the New Jersey Council of County Vocational-Technical Schools today. It’s [ Read More: NJBIA’s Siekerka Recognized as Career and Technical Education Leader ]

This article originally appeared on NJBIA.org on March 7, 2019. Unless businesses get off the sidelines and work proactively with academic institutions in preparing New Jersey’s future workforce, they will [ Read More: From NJBIA: Businesses Need to Get Off the Sidelines to Bridge the Skills Gap ]

“New technologies are opening a new era in automation for manufacturers—one in which humans and machines will increasingly work side by side… “Over the past two decades, automation in manufacturing [ Read More: From McKinsey & Company: Human + machine: A new era of automation in manufacturing ]

“Only slightly more than one-third of the over-25 population in New Jersey has a bachelor’s degree or higher. An even larger percentage has no education beyond high school. In a [ Read More: An editorial from the Asbury Park Press: Jobs and skills a good match ]

Employer and education leaders and Senate President Stephen Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto have announced a new partnership to help ensure New Jersey’s economic prosperity by supporting career and technical education [ Read More: NJ Employers, Legislative Leaders Launch Coalition to Support Career and Technical Education – News, Videos ]