NBC Nightly News continues their series Hiring Our Heroes focusing on the struggle returning soldiers are having trying to find employment.

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Employers in high-demand fields find difficulty filling available jobs

Working to close the skills gap

By Ingrid Jaques
The Detroit News – OPINION

Archana Mani of Farmington Hills wants to get back in the work force. But after staying home with her children the past 10 years, the 40-year-old realized she faced an uphill battle.

She has her master’s in information systems from Eastern Michigan University, but she knew her skills required some freshening. So she enrolled in the Shifting Code program at the Wayne County Community College District in Detroit, which she says has made her more confident. The new program works with area employers to match demand with skilled workers. Read More...

Looking for work? Thinking of learning a trade? You’re needed and a career in the trades can be rewarding financially as well as personally.

The economic recovery has been driven by a manufacturing revival the past two years.

But the strength of that revival could be threatened by the challenges facing a small and beleaguered sector of manufacturing that evokes images of a quainter, more labor-intensive era: the tool and die industry.
by Paul Davidson
USA TODAY
Via azcentral.com

These skilled manufacturers are vital. They produce tools, dies and molds that other makers use to shape products — from car fenders and dashboards to shampoo bottles and cellphones. Read More...