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Background on the Awards:
Career Communications Group, Inc. introduced its employee recognition program in 1987 at a time when the Department of Labor issued its Workforce 2000 report that predicted a shortage of skilled work force by the year 2000 based on the growing demand for skilled workers while the supply declined due to demographic shifts and the aging workforce. The face of the new workforce would primarily be women, racial and ethnic minority groups and immigrants.
In the race for talent, our company concluded that there are two key ways to help organizations stay in the race: Help organizations retain the employees that they need to meet their goals and do that in such a way that organizations can also help to build the pipeline of tomorrow’s workforce where they need them most, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Studies and surveys by Watson & Wyatt, the U.S. Department of Labor, Gallop, KPMG, and others show a strong correlation between employee recognition and retention. A Watson & Wyatt study revealed a 13 percent lower turnover rate for employers that had a clear strategy than those without one. The U.S. Department of Labor cites lack of appreciation as the number one reason employees leave their jobs.
Objectives:
Our awards are designed to achieve the following objectives:
- Create a network of role models who can serve as inspiration to others
- Help senior leadership in companies identify exceptional talent
- Promote better access of women and ethnic minority groups to STEM careers by showing them what it takes to get hired, and to keep moving upward in their organizations
- Help organizations promote and publicize the successes of women with the same intensity as male employees
- Help organizations cultivate engaged employees
- Raise the profile of organizations as employers of choice among women, racial and ethnic minority groups.
Why These Awards are Still Important:
Today the need for award programs like ours remains as strong as it did in 1987. Since then the publication of Workforce 2020 painted an even bleaker picture with the retirement of Baby Boomers from the workforce in full swing.
The CCG STEM Recognition Programs offer employers multiple opportunities annually to seek out the exemplary women, racial and ethnic minority STEM employees and their mentors or champions for recognition for their achievements. The recognition bestowed on this underrepresented group of the STEM workforce is designed, not for the individual, but for the collective potential STEM workforce of the future who will be the drivers of this country’s economic engine.
