Employability Skills Quotes

Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary.

From the outset, the Obama administration has recognized that building a robust skills infrastructure means building strong partnerships with community colleges.

We have to get back to universities being more focused on education and more connected on what they educate students for to the jobs that actually exist.

First and foremost, we have to ensure that we have to get our own kids ready for work so that employers want to take them on.

They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is experience of the world of work. The more that businesses get involved with schools, the better, because businesses sometimes complain that students don't have what they require to succeed in work.

Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.

There's a belief... in the country that we can cure unemployment by creating opportunity. The skills gap proves that opportunity along is not enough to get people employed.

Preparing youth for employment requires training that is demand-driven to meet the needs of companies and ensure that young people are taught marketable skills.