Perfect Match: How Workers Can Find Jobs That Fit Them Best

Perfect Match: How Workers Can Find Jobs That Fit Them Best. Center for Strategic & International Studies.Kati Suominen et al. October 4, 2019

The purpose of this report is to focus on mismatch problems in manufacturing labor markets. This report lays out several frictions that keep qualified and available American workers from becoming hired by American manufacturers and puts forth ideas for both manufacturers and the public sector to make the marriages between qualified workers and best-fit jobs happen and work. As such, this report is not focused on measuring or analyzing skills shortages or proposing new ways to build a workforce skilled for twenty-first century manufacturing jobs. Thus, “mismatches” in this report do not refer to “skills mismatches” where workers do not have skills employers want, as they do in some studies; rather, mismatches in this report mean settings where available workers are not being easily and optimally sorted into best-fit jobs. [Note: contains copyrighted material].

[PDF format, 57 pages].

Recruiting and Retaining Cybersecurity Ninjas

Recruiting and Retaining Cybersecurity Ninjas. Center for Strategic & International Studies. Franklin S. Reeder and Katrina Timlin. October 19, 2016.

This report identifies the factors that make an organization the employer of choice for what the authors call “cybersecurity ninjas.” Much has been written about the shortage of cybersecurity professionals, but little work has been done on the factors that help high-performing cybersecurity organizations build and keep a critical mass of high-end specialists. This is a first attempt that the authors hope will prompt discussion and drive changes in how organizations attract and retain high-end cybersecurity talent. [Note: contains copyrighted material].

[PDF format, 32 pages, 6.76 MB].