Alexis Ringwald, co-founder and CEO of LearnUp, said she went on a “listening journey” through unemployment lines in America and discovered there’s a skills gap and a challenge even for people to get an entry-level job.
“We decided to partner with employers directly — they’re the only ones who know exactly what skills you need,” she told HuffPost Live of LearnUp.
Ringwald said a couple of hours of LearnUp training will triple someone’s chances of getting a job.
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When asked about the Selma snub at the Oscars, Gelfond said he had a bigger criticism of the Academy Awards’ nominating system.
“The nominating process for best picture is maybe a little bit dated,” Gelfond said. “The way pictures are made has changed so rapidly over the last couple of decades.”
Gelfond said the best picture category is “so subjective” and “there’s no guidelines around it.”
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Gelfond weighed in on the Sony hack, saying theater owners got a bad rap.
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“Transparency.. is getting pretty tightly wound together with labeling,” Mack said.
Mack said people in the U.S. have “failed to appreciate” that labeling was always done for the purposes of safety, and argued that GMO labeling isn’t typically done because GMOs aren’t deemed unsafe.
Michael Mack, CEO of Syngenta, said some of the debate over food technologies like GMOs is “Western luxury.”
Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer Of Facebook, talks with Arianna about meeting the mother of a jihadist.
Dell defended his company’s decision to have manufacturing jobs in China rather than the U.S., saying employment at Dell in some areas has actually increased in the U.S.
“Our employment in the U.S. has grown in areas like research and development and services,” Dell said.
“I think one important point is that if you want people to be employed, you need to have employers,” Dell said. “Employers don’t just spring out of nowhere. So the employers need and environment thats conducive for them to be able to take the risks, create the jobs, and with taking on the risk, there ought to be some opportunity for them.”
Dell said he thinks it should be more simple to get businesses started and change the culture so “there’s more acceptance of risk.”
“If you want to create jobs and entrepreneurship, make it easy for people to start companies,” Dell said.
