How to Find Wealth and Success by Developing the Skills Companies Actually Need
Job U quickly shot to #1 on the Amazon Hot New Releases in Job Hunting and Career Guides. It has been awarded Best Business Careers book in the International Book Awards and Won USA Best Book Awards, Business Careers category.
Get ready to relearn everything you thought you knew about what a successful career path can look like. Unemployment hovers at a near-record highs, yet millions of American jobs remain unfilled. Why? Because companies simply cannot find people with the skills they actually need.
The good news is that this skills gap represents unprecedented opportunities for every person seeking a successful and exciting career. But these opportunities can’t be found inside the walls of the traditional classroom.
Instead, they lie in the myriad educational options that provide the technical, vocational, and soft skills on demand in today’s workplace, such as:
- Professional certifications: Start your career faster in fields like bioscience aviation, culinary arts, and medical technology.
- Associates degrees: Increase earning potential through inexpensive 2-year programs in subjects like civil engineering, environmental science, education, and nursing.
- Apprenticeships: Earn while you learn under the direct supervision of a skilled expert. Far beyond the artisan trades, today’s apprenticeships can be found at companies like Volkswagen and Siemens.
- Occupational learning: Refresh or reboot your skills set through on-the-job training or online education.
In Job U, you’ll learn about these paths to rewarding occupations; where to find them and how to parlay them into the best paying job in any field. And along the way, you’ll meet individuals of all ages who have attained their “dream jobs” through a non-traditional education: from an emergency air paramedic, to a lead mechanic of a race car team, to an engineer of complex gas turbine generators, to a bestselling cookbook author.
Whether you are recent high school or college graduate, or well along in your career journey, Job U will help you find your way to a more secure and prosperous future.
Reviews:
‘A provocative and well-researched look at
education and skills development—or the lack thereof—in the United
States—one of the key issues facing companies, colleges, and workers in
the US today.’
—Eric Spiegel, president and CEO of Siemens USA
‘It’s so refreshing to read a book as well
written and accessible; that so eloquently nails the problem surrounding
the “college for everyone” mindset. Above all, the marshalling of the
growing empirical and case study evidence that marketable and practical
skills pays will keep a few of those gilt edged educators awake at night
as they continue (for the time being) to do very well out of the
knowledge society myth.’
—Tom Bewick, managing director, New Work Training Ltd, UK; president, Transatlantic Apprenticeship Exchange Forum
‘Job U should be on the reading list of
every middle and high school guidance counselor and administrator. Mr.
Wyman’s passion for helping young and old alike attain the skills needed
for our 21st Century workforce is steeped into every page.’
—David Dewitt, manufacturingstories.com
‘Nicholas Wyman’s message is very important for today because both the American economy and the British economy are suffering from the same thing: an enormous skills gap. Job U sets it all out.’
—Lord Kenneth Baker, former UK Secretary of State for Education
