CHAPTER 1
Navigating the Skills Gap and the Shifting Labor Market
Since the official beginning of the economic recovery (June 2009), the labor market has been like a freeway traffic jam: four of the five lanes are stalled completely, or are at best inching forward at a slow crawl. Drivers in these lanes make up most of the job-seeking population. They are former public sector employees—teachers, police officers, city administrators, etc. They are service, retail, construction, and manufacturing workers. They are small business owners who had to shut their doors when credit dried up and business slowed. They are recent graduates competing for finite opportunities and mature workers nearing—but not quite able to reach—retirement. Some drivers have ...
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