Authors: Angélica Aguilar, Clarita Arboleda, Margarita Cabra, Natalia Iriarte Tovar, Mercedes Mateo, Emma Näslund-Hadley, Oscar Iván Pineda Diaz, Catalina Reyes, Belén Michel Torino & Laura Feliza Velez Medina _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ You most likely remember when you … [Read more...] about Socioemotional Preschool Education for Success in School and Life
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Targeting the Development of Soft Skills in Developing Countries: Evidence From a Growing Literature
More and more researchers and policymakers are interested in whether and how a broad array of skills, often summarized as non-cognitive skills, soft skills, life skills, or socio-emotional skills, may benefit individuals in educational settings or in the labor market. A large literature in the U.S. and other industrialized countries has identified high returns to non-cognitive … [Read more...] about Targeting the Development of Soft Skills in Developing Countries: Evidence From a Growing Literature
Workforce Development and Closing the Global Digital Skills Gap
Richard Wang is the CEO of the global technology education company Coding Dojo. As a leading education and technology executive, Richard is committed to creating economic mobility and increasing opportunities for workers to reskill or upskill so they can meaningfully participate in the digital economy. He is also a special guest in our blog series about the development of … [Read more...] about Workforce Development and Closing the Global Digital Skills Gap
Digital Skills to Write a 21st-Century Resume with Artificial Intelligence
In the past, we used to write our resumé to persuade the person reading it that we were the most suitable candidate for the job. Nowadays, advances in technology force us to convince someone else first. A robot that screens your document using Artificial Intelligence (AI). Yes, today, your Curriculum Vitae (CV) is more likely to be discarded by a machine than reviewed by the … [Read more...] about Digital Skills to Write a 21st-Century Resume with Artificial Intelligence
The Pandemic Caused Job Disruptions. Digital Careers Offer New Opportunities
Over the past year, the labor markets in Latin America and the Caribbean have regressed at least 10 years-with 23 million people temporarily removed from the workforce losing their jobs and their income, according to the International Labor Organization. But the unemployment rate tells only part of the story in this region of the world. According to the ILO, there was an … [Read more...] about The Pandemic Caused Job Disruptions. Digital Careers Offer New Opportunities