Lauren Weber
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740 appearances
12 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2017
last heard Dec 2024
Lauren Weber’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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a job as an engineering technician or a video producer or a psychiatric aid for healthcare, an account manager in some kinds of financial services industries, where you don't need to have that four-year degree, but you do probably need some post-secondary education.
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So if you're a high school dropout or a high school graduate, this is a very bad job market for you.
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If you've got some college, it looks a little bit better.
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And if you have an associate's degree, especially one that's very career-focused, very targeted on a particular skill or occupation, your chances are actually better today than in 1991.
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That's true.
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And it's partly that workers are seeking that out.
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It's also that community colleges and other institutions are creating the programs that employers need, that are giving people the skills that employers need.
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So the number of career-focused certificates that community colleges gave out has more than doubled between 2000 and 2014.
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It's partly because more people are enrolling, also because the colleges are creating those programs.
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I think that the data that I'm citing here is for public community colleges.
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But yes, the for-profit college space is a whole different thing.
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I mean, they grew up partly to serve this kind of need.
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They might have gotten sidetracked along the way in fulfilling their profit-making imperative.
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Well, they need to be.
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If they're not already going into post-secondary training, they need to be thinking about it.
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Because there are jobs, good jobs out there that are going unfilled because people aren't getting the right kinds of training.
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And this requires many people along the path of a young person to step in and help guide someone.
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Parents, guidance counselors in high schools, local community colleges, employers, a lot of different parties here need to be working to make sure that workers are getting the training they need and employers and institutions are creating the kinds of training courses that will help prepare people.
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That's true.
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Thank you for having me.
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