04/27/2017

How Associations Prepare for Workforce Shortages

Many industries are encountering huge deficits of employees as Boomers retire

Industries from tech to the trades are struggling with workforce shortages in their industries. Here are how some associations are taking on the issue.

Over here at Associations Now, we hear from a lot of associations about how their industries are facing workforce shortages. The scarcity of workers is sometimes because the current pool is preparing to retire; sometimes it’s because there’s a stigma surrounding a certain industry; and sometimes it’s simply because youngsters don’t know about certain careers. Take landscape architecture, for instance.

“Most people still don’t really know what landscape architecture is,” said Shawn Balon, career discovery and diversity manager at the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).

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