Use Real-Time Labor Market Data to Upskill Your Workforce | Matt Sigelman

This week, we're joined by guest Matt Sigelman, president at The Burning Glass Institute and chairman at Lightcast. He’s dedicated his career to unlocking new avenues for mobility, opportunity and equity through skills. He's a visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and holds an AB from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard.

We discuss how companies can anticipate skill demands and the illuminating findings from The American Opportunity Index, which identifies America's 250 largest public companies that have the best employment outcomes for their workers—and why.

We also talk about the State of Skills report, which clearly lays out the skills that are most in-demand for jobs today and just how much they're changing.

Finally, we cover how upskilling and reskilling can help employers fill skills gaps by putting transferable skills to work in areas of need.

Resources we talked about in this episode:

05:00 How Skills Are Disrupting Work: The Transformational Power of Fast Growing, In-Demand Skills (The Burning Glass Institute); referred to as “The State of Skills Report” in this episode 

17:09 The American Opportunity Index (The Burning Glass Institute) 

21:41 Building From the Bottom Up: What Businesses Can Do to Strengthen the Bottom Line by Investing in Front-line Workers. (Harvard Business School) 

29:07 How to Create a Strengths-Based Company Culture (Gallup) 

34:42 IKEA reskilling customer service reps to work as interior design advisors (Reuters) 

38:28 Palette Skills’ SalesCamp