Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Been” there, learned that: Immersive workplace training with virtual reality
Season 2 Episode 8
What do sales clerks have in common with NFL quarterbacks? Apart from a competitive nature, both can benefit from VR training. Former Stanford footba…
6 years, 8 months ago
How carefully managed career restarts can benefit individuals and employers
Season 2 Episode 7
Life events, personal interests, and a host of other factors lead people to step away from work. The key is how to handle reentry. Carol Fishman Coh…
6 years, 9 months ago
How teaching robots the way the world works changes the world of work
Season 2 Episode 6
Robots aren’t necessarily primed to take over, but advances in machine learning are readying the mechanical components of the workforce for more comp…
6 years, 9 months ago
Fintech on Main Street: How small businesses are banking on new technology
Season 2 Episode 5
Technology is changing financial institutions’ relationships with local businesses and sole proprietors, which account for half of America’s workforc…
6 years, 10 months ago
The energy industry’s cooperative approach to expanding the talent pipeline
Season 2 Episode 4
The Center for Energy Workforce Development was created in 2006 to help the industry prepare for a generational wave of retirements and to diversify …
6 years, 10 months ago
Advanced placement at work: a 21st Century apprenticeship model for the US
Season 2 Episode 3
CareerWise Colorado is redefining job training and expanding the talent pipeline. The nonprofit apprenticeship program, patterned on the successful S…
6 years, 11 months ago
Expanding access and conveying competencies: How Western Governors University is rethinking higher education
Season 2 Episode 2
Western Governors University was founded in 1997 to expand access to affordable higher education and to offer instruction grounded in the requirement…
6 years, 11 months ago
Fried chicken and fresh starts: fair chance hiring as a talent strategy
Season 2 Episode 1
More people in the US have criminal records than have graduated from college. Joe DeLoss, founder of restaurant chain Hot Chicken Takeover, argues th…
7 years ago
Investing in innovation: boosting growth beyond superstar cities
Season 1 Episode 32
Can a Manhattan Project on steroids revitalize languishing US regions and drive balanced economic growth? In their book Jump-Starting America: How Br…
7 years ago
From gig to gig: Thumbtack’s CEO on the challenges facing contract workers
Season 1 Episode 31
The phrase “gig worker” often conjures an image of a driver providing a routine service for low pay. But freelancers provide services on a contracted…
7 years, 1 month ago