Help Wanted
How to find and keep talent in a forever-tight labor market
“Brilliant tool kit for job creators to creatively find talent – toughest part of our job now – must read book to help bring on new talent and recruit the best in a labor strained economy where great people are critical for growth.”
Over the past ten years, the U.S. labor market has been buffeted, with demand shifting dramatically. At the same time, demographic trends mean that U.S. labor supply will steadily tighten into the coming decade: Relatively fewer native-born workers are entering the workforce; a greater percentage are choosing not to work; and an aging baby boom generation is exiting the workforce. What’s worse, this systemic tightening of the U.S. labor market has been exacerbated by the Trump administration’s decision to dramatically constrain immigration, the primary source of recent labor market growth.
Welcome to the “forever-tight” labor market. In Help Wanted, Jerry Rubin and Steven Dawson combine their 80 years of experience in management and workforce development to offer employers an “employee-focused competitive strategy.”
About the authors
Jerry Rubin led and founded several highly impactful workforce and community development organizations and initiatives in the nonprofit and public sectors over the past four decades. He has written extensively on workforce and community development issues including monographs and book chapters. He is Senior Advisor at the Harvard Project On The Workforce and a Foundation Fellow at Eastern Bank.
Steven L. Dawson worked in the field of business/economic development for 45 years. He helped create and lead a range of for-profit and nonprofit economic development enterprises, andfor decades wrote and consulted extensively to organizations on frontline workforce job-quality issues.
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