LinkedIn Wants to Close the Green Skills Gap
We Mean Business Coalition & LinkedIn
This video is part of our series, Electric Advantage in Action, which spotlights how businesses are capitalizing on the tangible, wide-ranging benefits that come with electrification.
“The demand for green skills is growing nearly twice as fast as supply is growing.” That’s according to Efrem Bycer, Head of Workforce and Climate Policy Partnerships at LinkedIn, on the state of the green labor market.
LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking and job search platform, believes this skills gap is the real constraint on delivering the electrification agenda, but also a real opportunity for labor. One way to solve this mismatch is by connecting market information to help workers, employers, and governments so that they better understand what’s happening in the world of work.
Transcript:
Efrem Bycer, Head of Workforce and Climate Policy Partnerships at LinkedIn:
“Every day I think about how we leverage our labor market information, help governments, workers, and employers understand what’s going on in the world of work.”
“Our data show that one of the biggest risks to electrification is: are we going to have a workforce that can get it done in the first place?”
“Right now, we see globally and in the UK that demand for green skills is growing nearly twice as fast as supply is growing.”
“That could put a real constraint on our ability to deliver on our electrification and energy transition goals.”
“On the flip side, that demand is also a real opportunity for workers.”
“When we think of companies like Octopus Energy who are developing apprenticeship programs to help develop workers who’ve done some retrofit work before and help them have the skills to work on things like heat pumps.”
“Building the workforce for electrification cannot happen in a vacuum. One of the things we see pretty clearly is that you’ve got to get your energy and environment and climate ministries and agencies talking to their counterparts in education, labor, and workforce.”
“Workers want to work on this, especially young people. It gives me hope every time I talk to young people who are so passionate about working on this and they’re hungry to learn and they want to put their skills to use.”