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Opportunity Knocks: Lessons Learned From Leveraging Opportunity Population Talent

Center for Education and Workforce
July 27, 2022
Three workers on a construction site
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As businesses work to find talent amongst high labor shortages, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation collected case studies from some of its TPM® partners and compiled them in the Opportunity Knocks report to shed light on the following five lessons to leverage opportunity populations talent.
Mekhali Peyyalamitta
Talent Pipeline Management
Workforce Training

Building Pathways of Success with the Business Leads Fellowship Program

Center for Education and Workforce
July 27, 2022
Kerry Dixon, Asst. Principal, Center High School KC, tries out an electric nail gun at JE Dunn Construction to learn about skilled trades positions
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Coming from his background in higher education policy, Brian Crouse, vice president of education programs at the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, is keenly aware of how critical it is to bridge the gap between what the education sector provides for students and what the business community needs from potential workers coming out of their pipeline. The Business Leads Fellowship offered him a new process and tools to communicate more effectively with these stakeholders.

Education
Workforce Training

Fast Forward Summit: Talent Forward

The Workforce Revolution We Need | Worker Shortage Crisis | American Opportunity Index | Future Workforce Hybrid Work | Filling Jobs and Upskilling Workers | Strengthening American Competitiveness

T3 Innovation Network Mid-Year Meeting

Join the U.S. Chamber Foundation and the T3 Innovation Network on Thursday, August 4, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, for an in-person Mid-Year Meeting in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

During the event, we will debut the Master Use Case for Skills-Based Hiring and Advancement, provide updates on other signature T3 Network projects, and provide a forum to discuss Artificial Intelligence applications as a cross-network issue and opportunity, and more.

How Refugee Talent Can Be An Asset To The American Business Community

The U.S. government has committed to welcoming hundreds of thousands of people displaced by major refugee crises, including 95,000 at-risk Afghans who worked alongside the U.S military and 100,000 Ukrainians displaced by Russia’s recent military invasion. These developments represent an enormous opportunity for the American business community to help refugees to integrate into the U.S. workforce.

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