Report Finds US Workers Lagging in Digital Skills — from technewsworld.com by John P. Mello Jr.
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Many Americans lack the digital skills needed to be productive members of the workforce in the 21st century, according to a report released Monday by a Washington, D.C. think tank.
One-third of U.S. workers lack digital skills, with 13 percent having no digital skills and 18 percent having, at best, limited digital skills, noted the report by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, a science and technology institute.
In essence, the ITIF reported, one in six working-age Americans are unable to use email, web search, or other basic online tools.
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We now face a tight labor market with fewer resources to pull from when it comes to human capital.
Even though we may not be able to predict the jobs of the future, we can begin to crack the labor market code in today’s economy and home in on the hybrid, or human and technical skills that will help working-age adults prepare for the jobs of today and tomorrow.