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The number one reason candidates are dropping out of a job application funnel is that you don’t articulate that you’re a company with a clear career path…As an innovative company, you need to show you’ve created a culture of opportunity for mobility.”
Rachel Romer Carlson
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[We’ve] been brainwashed to believe that the only socially acceptable pathway to economic advancement is through four-year colleges…We’re not anti-college, but there is a large segment of the population that will do better off with [apprenticeships].”
Ryan Craig
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An apprenticeship intrinsically combines work and education. The apprenticeships we offer are in high-skill areas that employers desperately need more, such as data analytics, software engineering, project management and business operations.”
euan blair
Cofounder & CEO, Guild Education
Founder & CEO, Multiverse
Managing Director, Achieve Partners
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Invest in a young person’s future, not an archaic pathway. Preparing schools just for kids to go to college is not really investing in the future because that’s not where we’re headed anymore.”
Patricia Brantley
CEO, Friendship Public Charter School
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We have a human capital section in our annual report where we share all our statistics about representation…We hold people accountable to progress because, without data, it’s hard to drive improvement.”
Cynthia Bowman
Chief D&I Officer & Head of Talent Acquisition, Bank of America
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Hiring is only 20% of the game. It’s really about [building] a skills-first culture. You need to think about how you’re training your managers and the transparency of your career pathways. If you’re not thinking about this, you are going to have high attrition [rates].”
Maurice Jones
President & CEO, OneTen
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The programs that we have in place are heavily weighted toward tech skills, but human skills and problem-solving skills are also critical, and something that we’re investing in.”
Samantha Hammock
EVP & CHRO, Verizon
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The single biggest impact [universities] can make overnight is to credential every semester instead of full degrees. We would have a model of higher education that we could enter and exit [throughout] our lives with much greater ease.”
David Blake
Cofounder & CEO, Degreed & Co-CEO, Learn In
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All of us have to be continuous learners in order to have successful careers, and the vehicle to achieve that is strong partnerships between education, government and industry. By working together, we can have the impact to make continuous learners who have skills for a lifetime rather than jobs.”
Obed Louissaint
SVP, Transformation & Culture, IBM
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Part of our agenda is connecting high school students with companies like IBM, and working with their skills-based curriculum to make some of those courses available this coming school year.”
Fernando Zulueta
Founder & CEO, Academica
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One of the things missing from online learning today is creating communities around areas of interest where people can learn from each other. I think the metaverse facilitates that in a really powerful way.”
Michael Moe
Founder & CEO, GSV Holdings
