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Joe Laymon is Vice President of human resources, medical and security for Chevron Corporation. He leads Chevron global human resources, medical care and security features.

Only a few were predicted that the country that only a few decades later, to put the first man on the moon would face significant differences in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. But with the United States experience unfilled 9.1 percent unemployment, and many jobs in the technical field, our challenges are clear.

We see an acute human resources challenge in the energy sector alone. According to the National Petroleum Council the number of persons exceeds the entitlement to pension, the number of people in the industry. The U.S. energy employees must be complemented, meet the growing worldwide demand for energy.

And yet, the national assessment of educational progress reports that about 75 percent of the students of our nation, not in mathematics are completed they are 12 degrees, as the primary driver of economy of the United States in STEM fields. In fact, you are competing U.S. Department of labor projects, to need which 15 20 science successful on the fastest growing professions in 2014 or mathematics skills for the jobs.

The challenges are particularly acute in California, Chevron home State. Same report by the national assessment of educational progress noted, that the proportion of the California students in the VORBAU topics below the national average.

Chevron thinking years ahead, about how can we invest in the development of human capital to build staff bring stem skills and ingenuity, energy to the global market can use. To this end, we have partnered with a number of nonprofit organizations in California, the educational challenges of today new drive solutions make small changes, produce significant results.

In one classroom in Richmond, California, a community that suffers from some of the highest unemployment in the State, were students, the school brings with the launch of a technical laboratory. Skills of the pupils in technical principles which was laboratory through our partnership with project established the stem curriculum for middle possible lead the way, a non-profit, and high school students.

A few miles on the road in Oakland, California, we young women, the stem cells are not otherwise suspended could fields career in technical areas through Techbridge, an organization the opportunity information that provides after school and summer programs and encourages girls to pursue education in STEM disciplines. The organization offers practical projects, exploration career and academic and vocational guidance for girls.

We depend, skilled workers, to provide safe and reliable energy. This need is only as the demand for energy increasing around the world grow. And as well as the plans for the energy sector several decades in advance, we need a long-term perspective to improve STEM education.

To solve future employment challenges STEM curriculum must support for the private sector in our schools during the partnership with non-profit organizations such as project lead the way and Techbridge. The formation of partnerships, complementary resources, expertise and resources to help can be used a competitive workforce back economic prosperity in the United States for the 21st century, in the short term to unemployment solve and our nation competitive in the long term.

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Jerry Jasinowski, an economist and author, served as president of the National Association of Manufacturers for 14 years and later as president of the Manufacturing Institute. 

Some years ago when I was president of the National Association of Manufacturers, I challenged a representative of one of our larger members to explain why his company was sending so many jobs overseas. "Because," he replied with some heat, "the young people coming out of our public schools today cannot pass a reading test, a writing test, or a math test." 

There was more than a little exaggeration in that comment, but it reflects an attitude I encountered many times during my years with the NAM. In every survey of NAM members we conducted when I was there, a majority of respondents inevitably replied that finding qualified job applicants was one of their biggest headaches. Workers in modern manufacturing must be deft with math and science. They need to know how to read blueprints and program computers. But these skills are sorely lacking among the unemployed. We have a critical need to have our young people as well as displaced workers focus on STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and math). 

There is a great debate in Washington and across the nation about the economy, and in particular what we must do to create more jobs. We will not get the economy growing again, and will not restore consumer confidence, until we put millions of the employed back to work. But how? Most of the discussion centers on general policies such as payroll taxes, regulations, infrastructure, and investment––the presumption being that if we support business, business will create jobs. But business is already rolling in cash and many of the jobs business is creating are overseas. Clearly something else is needed. 

I suggest a cooperative program, jointly funded by government and business, to train unemployed workers for specific jobs that need filling now. There are a variety of programs out there providing training to the unemployed, and many of them are very good, but they rarely include a direct transition from training to employment. Too often, unemployed workers go through these programs only to discover there are few if any opportunities for them, even with their newly acquired skills. 

I have heard many small manufacturers complain that these training programs, usually run in conjunction with community colleges, are not in sync with real-world workplace needs. Give us that training money, they say, and we will train applicants to do the jobs and then put them directly to work. 

I think that is worth a try––at least as part of a more comprehensive job creation program. The program should be jointly funded by a foundation or government grant, plus money from participating businesses. The key ingredient should be employers with jobs that need filling who will pledge to provide employment to people who complete their training programs successfully. The employers will not be able to complain about the training because they will be the ones providing it. They will get to know the workers personally, and whether or not they are qualified to do the jobs. Based on my own experience at the NAM, I believe a program like this could bring a significant number of people into the workforce in a relatively short period of time.

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