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Work In Progress

The nature of work is changing rapidly and dramatically. Advances in technology are eliminating some jobs, transforming others, and, in some cases, creating jobs we never even imagined. In WorkingNation’s weekly podcast Work in Progress, we speak with leaders in business, education, government, and nonprofits about what’s being done to train and reskill American men and women to ensure they can compete for, and qualify for, good-paying, in-demand jobs today and in the future. Work in Progress is

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SXSW EDU PanelPicker: Don’t forget to vote!

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2021/08/22

Get out the vote! PanelPicker® community voting for the SXSW EDU 2022 conference in Austin in March 2022 is underway now through August 26. As always, WorkingNation is looking at innovative pathways to good jobs and careers, and we believe we've put together some interesting panels and conversations that we'd love to share with our workforce development and education community when we all gather in Austin next Spring. Help us bring these panels to life. Give us your support by clicking on

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Workforce-aligned programs for Chicagoans

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2021/08/20

To fill the urgent employment needs brought on by the pandemic, City Colleges of Chicago has launched a collection of short-term college programs to get Chicagoans into jobs. Future Ready includes 60 workforce-aligned programs, according to Mark Potter, provost and chief academic officer of City Colleges of Chicago. And because Future Ready is funded by federal stimulus dollars, the program is free for students. “We wanted to think through how we could utilize those resources in service of

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Wednesday, September 1: Join us for the #InvestInWork...

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2021/08/18

Let's Get America Back to Work! Let's #InvestInWork. For the nation to achieve a strong jobs recovery, we need to work together to address the many issues and questions surrounding access and equity in the workforce. Millions of job seekers are still facing challenges preventing them from actively participating in the workforce, while millions more are facing barriers that are keeping them from seeking and getting better-paying jobs that provide family-sustaining wages. On September 1,

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Hiring platform levels the playing field for job...

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2021/08/17

In this episode of the Work in Progress podcast, I am joined by Kelcey Reed, the new chief technology officer for the nonprofit Opportunity@Work. Opportunity@Work's mission is to rewire the U.S. labor market so that individuals Skilled Through Alternative Routes—workers and job seekers they call STARs—can work, learn, and earn to their full potential. "You shouldn't have to have a college degree to acquire a good-paying job. You should have the acumen to gain skills and utilize those skills to

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Back to Work: Increasing diversity among real estate...

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2021/08/16

For the third week in a row, initial unemployment claims declined, according to the Department of Labor. The number of new claims totaled 375,000 for the week ending August 7, down from 387,000. WorkingNation is always checking around the nation to see what workforce opportunities are being offered. This week, we found trainings in real estate, construction, and free career exploration. Take a look. From Alabama: WZDX reports Drake State Community & Technical College is among six

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Tapping into the Native American community to close...

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2021/08/13

With the second largest military air depot in the nation located in Oklahoma City—Tinker Air Force Base—it’s no surprise that aerospace is the largest industry there. It’s also facing the most significant workforce and education gap, as compared to other sectors. "In 2016, over 107,200 jobs, approximately 6% of Oklahoma’s total workforce, were associated with industries in the Aerospace and Defense Ecosystem. By 2025, total employment is expected to increase 6.1% to nearly 114,000," according to

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Education + Training + Innovation = Good Jobs

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2021/08/12

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ASU+GSV Summit 2021: Johnny C. Taylor, Jr. on...

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2021/08/11

Diversity in the workplace and a sense of belonging are critical, according to Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., president and CEO of SHRM, the Society for Human Resource Management. SHRM “creates better workplaces where employers and employees thrive together.” SHRM has more than 300,000 HR and business executive members in 165 countries, impacting more than 115 million workers and families globally. “There is dignity in work, and we know that when people are out of work forcibly, it literally changes

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ASU+GSV Summit 2021: Scott Pulsipher on access for...

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2021/08/11

Western Governors University is a fully accredited online institution with career-aligned bachelor's and master's degrees in IT, teaching, business, and healthcare and designed to help working professionals fit an online university education into their busy lives. “If individuals don’t have internet access, we certainly are going to find ourselves in a situation where large portions of our people are not able to engage in the economy and change their lives,” says WGU president Scott

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ASU+GSV Summit 2021: Shad Ahmed on paving the way for...

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2021/08/11

“Opportunity@Work is a workforce development, social enterprise nonprofit focused on the 70 million workers in America who do not have a four-year degree who are skilled through alternative routes. We call them STARs—Skilled Through Alternative Routes,” explains Shad Ahmed, COO of Opportunity@Work. Ahmed continues, “We are an interesting nonprofit in that we don't do direct service provision, but really our focus is on supporting the many other partners, organizations, and companies interested in

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ASU+GSV Summit 2021: Hannah Lee on economic and...

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2021/08/11

Advances in technology have provided many with opportunities, but according to the Cognizant Foundation, “Far too few have access to the quality education, training, and job opportunities required to improve their economic and social mobility.” The Cognizant Foundation partners with grantees to “rethink the pathways into and through the tech sector, grow more diverse talent pipelines, and fundamentally reimagine the education and workforce systems.” Hannah Lee, director at the Cognizant

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ASU+GSV Summit 2021: Jeff Maggioncalda on...

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2021/08/11

In the past year, the interest in online learning has grown significantly, according to Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera, which provides learning content from 240 universities and industry educators. “The pandemic basically closed every school in the world. It closed every office in the world and for workforce development programs—it forced all these programs to move online. So, in 2020, we were very busy. Thirty million people came to Coursera to learn online,” says Maggioncalda. “And now

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ASU+GSV Summit 2021: Rachel Carlson on unlocking...

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2021/08/11

Guild Education, an education platform, asks, “Is your workforce ready to take on the jobs of tomorrow?” Guild “drives business outcomes—increasing employee retention, upskilling talent, and improving representation at every level of your organization.” Guild “unlocks mobility” by collaborating with businesses and educational institutions to provide access to learners, according to Rachel Carlson, co-founder and CEO of Guild Education. Providing learning opportunities is important to today’s

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ASU+GSV Summit 2021: Ruben Harris on riding the tech...

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2021/08/11

Tech is taking over every industry and is driving workforce mobility, according to Ruben Harris, CEO and co-founder of Career Karma. Harris explains the organization matches people to job training programs in order to land high-paying tech jobs. “What makes our platform unique is not only is it free for you, but we give you support during the program, during the job search, and for the rest of your life—through our lab, audio rooms. We have a community of hundreds of thousands of peers, coaches,

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ASU+GSV Summit 2021: Art Bilger on local workforce...

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2021/08/11

When WorkingNation founder and CEO Art Bilger started the nonprofit media company five years ago the mismatch between skills employers wanted and the skills job seekers had was already a growing issue. Now, due to the impact of the pandemic on the workforce, the issue has become even more urgent. “We, as a society in all the different levels really have to focus much, much more carefully on where the jobs will be and the solutions,” says Bilger. “Starting point is what are the jobs today,

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ASU+GSV Summit 2021: Charlie Schilling on addressing...

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2021/08/11

Emeritus offers online learning for in-demand skills intended to help people advance their careers. The organization partners with universities around the world including Wharton, Harvard, and Dartmouth. Emeritus states its “short courses, degree programs, boot camps, and senior executive programs help individuals learn new skills and transform their lives, companies and organizations.” “We do it in a unique way that we think drives better outcomes in that we developed with these universities,

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ASU+GSV Summit 2021: Matt Sigelman on the role of...

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2021/08/11

“One of the trends that we've been seeing, that's having a profound impact on the market right now is just the pace with which skills are changing writ large,” says Matt Sigelman, CEO of Emsi Burning Glass, a data and analytics firm focused on the labor market and the skills needed to successfully compete in the today's workforce. “Overall, the average U.S. job has seen 30% of its skills replaced over the last decade alone. And that's accelerating. We know that there are certain skills,

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ASU+GSV Summit 2021: Angela Jackson on training...

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2021/08/11

New Profit is a venture philanthropy organization created by and for social entrepreneurs. It states, “We back breakthrough social entrepreneurs through our unique model that brings together the rigor of venture capital and the humanity of the nonprofit sector.” A current New Profit project is the Future of Work Grand Challenge—a $6 million initiative in collaboration with JFF, XPRIZE, and MIT Solve. “We've identified 15 finalists that we've supported and paired with influential workforce

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ASU+GSV Summit 2021: Ryan Stowers on work and...

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2021/08/11

The Charles Koch Foundation collaborates with “social entrepreneurs to remove the barriers that prevent people from reaching their potential.” “A lot of individuals face extreme difficulty, real barriers that prevent them from reaching their potential. Charles Koch is a philanthropy that's working to stimulate, to invest, to catalyze ways in which we can help to break down some of those barriers that people face,” says Ryan Stowers, executive director of the foundation. Stowers says it’s

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ASU+GSV Summit 2021: Bridget Burns on the opportunity...

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2021/08/11

University Innovation Alliance is a national coalition of public research universities committed to increasing the number and diversity of college graduates in the U.S. “Innovation and my institutions have united around a sense of urgency that they wanted to do a better job helping students graduate specifically from low-income, first-generation, and students of color backgrounds,” says Bridget Burns, executive director of the organization. She adds, “We wanted to do it together because they

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