Detroit 15

Session Description: As the economy shifts ever-more rapidly, matching people and their skills with jobs becomes a huge social challenge. We need better training, better awareness of opportunities, and more flexibility on the part of employers. Companies are desperate for appropriate talent, but emerging systems suggest that tech could help bring people and jobs together more productively.   Kirkpatrick: So this whole question of what’s happening with work and how do we train people for the jobs that are coming into existence, not, as we heard from Carl Bass, training them for the manufacturing jobs of a hundred years ago. That’s a key question that we’re wrestling with at this conference and as a nation, and in Detroit. And this next session is going to really tackle that question, what’s happening with what we might call the Internet of employment? How do we get the right tech for the job, so to speak, right tech that can help match jobs and workers? So I’m going to turn the stage over to Martha Laboissiere, who is a consultant at McKinsey. Laboissiere: Thank you, and welcome everybody. So I’m just going to briefly introduce our colleagues here with me. Charlene Li is with Altimeter, Wan-Lae Cheng with the Markle Foundation, and Matt Anchin with Monster. And so, as David just mentioned, what we want to talk about is how do we use technology to address this issue of the skills gap? And I think we would all agree that over the last six to eight years, we...