{"id":3493,"date":"2017-10-06T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherville.com\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2017-10-12T16:24:32","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:24:32","slug":"what-dads-without-a-college-degree-need-to-land-good-paying-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatherville.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/06\/what-dads-without-a-college-degree-need-to-land-good-paying-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"What Dads Without a College Degree Need to Land Good-Paying Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author: Christopher A. Brown<\/a><\/p>\n

If you listen only to the political rhetoric about the loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs in the U.S., you\u2019d think our nation faces a crisis of historic proportion, especially for workers without a Bachelor\u2019s Degree.<\/p>\n

The fact is the loss of 2.8 million manufacturing jobs has more than been offset by a gain of 4 million jobs in skilled services industries, such as healthcare and finance. Some 30 million workers without a college degree (40 percent of all workers without a college degree) have good-paying jobs with a median annual income of $55,000. And although many of these jobs have shifted from manufacturing to skilled services, manufacturing and transportation jobs still house the bulk of them.<\/p>\n

These data come from a recent\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0that sheds a brighter and more complete light on what\u2019s happened in the U.S. job market in recent years. It provides vital knowledge for organizations that serve dads who are unemployed or underemployed, or who are employed in low-paying jobs. Many of these dads lack a college or even high school degree. As the report points out, even good-paying manufacturing jobs now require at least an Associate\u2019s Degree.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is dads need education and training in the knowledge and skills required to land today\u2019s good-paying jobs. And that\u2019s where more good news for organizations that serve dads is about to arrive in the form of\u00a0GoodJobs.org<\/a>, a website that will launch this fall. It will include data on where these jobs are concentrated at the national and state levels, and by industry and occupation. You\u2019ll be able to see how available these jobs are, and where they\u2019re located, relative to your service area and community.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, here are some tips you can apply to boost your and your co-workers\u2019 knowledge in this critical subject:<\/p>\n