3 The Opportunity Ahead: A Call to Action for American Skills and Jobs be required to demonstrate how their models will be financially sustainable and leverage additional funding from other public and private sources. Job Skills Innovation Nationwide Prize Competition. Jobs Madness is a national prize competition to bring forward and test radical innovations to upskill workers for higher-wage employment, build accelerated pathways to employment in high-demand sectors, and other innovative technologies outside of the traditional education to employment pathway. Announced today, this national prize competition is run by Innovate & Educate in partnership with the Hope Street Group, CompTIA, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Wadhwani Foundation, Burning Glass Technologies, and STEMconnector. New Map for Job Seekers to See Where there are Open Jobs. Following the White House Data Jam for Job Seekers, Glassdoor has published a new map for job seekers to see where there are open jobs county-by-county across the country. Recognizing the rising number of dual-earner families, the platform will also enable job seekers to view job density for two jobs at the same time, so a use could better understand where the open jobs are for her or his spouse. Finally, by using their existing resume bank, Glassdoor has determined likely career paths: for example, what percentage of warehouse workers went on to become truck drivers. Developing New Tool for Job-Relevant and Personalized Career Guidance. Today, Apploi is announcing a commitment to use real-time data about local employer needs to develop a new tool that shows job seekers where the greatest job demand is geographically and by sector, as well as personalized recommendations about what education and training is needed for those positions, primarily focused on jobs in the retail, services, leisure, entertainment, and hospitality industries. In addition, job seekers will be able to learn from their job search by receiving personalized feedback based on their skills, interests, and local job needs. Finally, these search tools will illustrate the possibility for upward mobility and career trajectories, which start with entry-level positions, what training and work experience is necessary to get to the next level, and the best route for such advancement. 3.3 The Tech Workforce: Creating On-Ramps to Fill America’s Highest-Demand Jobs Job opportunities that require information technology (IT) skills are being created in almost every 53 industry, resulting in hundreds of thousands of unfilled positions. IT jobs in fields like cybersecurity, network administration, coding, and data analytics offer pathways to middle-class careers. The lack of IT talent hurts the bottom line of firms whose job openings go unfilled, leaves money on the table for low-wage workers who could substantially improve their earnings with a short-term investment in IT training, and costs the American economy in terms of lost wages and productivity. Closing the gap between the supply and demand of Americans with IT skills will not be easy and there are no simple solutions, but communities across the country are making progress. Using increased access to specific information about local employer IT demand and the skills required in a constantly evolving IT sector, and forming strong partnerships between the private sector, education 53 CEB TalentNeuron research and analysis, crawling of public profiles, skill predictor algorithms, CEB TalentNeuron Skill Taxonomy & SME Interviews. CEB, 2013. 71