{"id":121728,"date":"2021-04-19T04:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T11:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/want-to-work-in-the-growing-space-industry-how-one-ceo-says-hiring-needs-to-expand"},"modified":"2021-04-19T04:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T11:22:38","slug":"want-to-work-in-the-growing-space-industry-how-one-ceo-says-hiring-needs-to-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/want-to-work-in-the-growing-space-industry-how-one-ceo-says-hiring-needs-to-expand","title":{"rendered":"Want to work in the growing space industry? How one CEO says hiring needs to expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/want-to-work-in-the-growing-space-industry-how-one-ceo-says-hiring-needs-to-expand3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The growth of space businesses makes this \u201cthe most exciting time\u201d to be involved in the industry, but one CEO says private and government organizations must do more to tap the next generation of U.S. workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think there\u2019s opportunities for everybody to participate in the excitement \u2026 [and] it\u2019s a great opportunity for the government to really lean in on looking for those public-private partnerships,\u201d Steve Isakowitz, CEO of The Aerospace Corporation and former president of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/SPCE\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Galactic<\/a>, told attendees of the America\u2019s Future Series Space Innovation Summit. The event ran on April 6 and 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to do more and expand the candidate pool \u2014 we\u2019ve got to make sure that all of America has the benefit of being part of the STEM, K-12, opportunities that are out there,\u201d he added, referring to the academic discipline that includes science, tech, engineering and math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The growth of space businesses makes this \u201cthe most exciting time\u201d to be involved in the industry, but one CEO says private and government organizations must do more to tap the next generation of U.S. workers. \u201cI do think there\u2019s opportunities for everybody to participate in the excitement \u2026 [and] it\u2019s a great opportunity for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,38,1490,2229,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-engineering","category-government","category-mathematics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}