Tools to Power Your Workforce

Across the U.S., young people often struggle to transition from school to meaningful careers due to a lack of coordinated guidance, work-based learning, and aligned coursework. The evolving labor market and growing demand for skilled talent underscore the need for youth career pathways, including training, work experiences, and support systems. The New Skills Ready Network (NSRN) was launched by JPMorganChase to expand work-based learning, career advising, college credits in high school, postsecondary credentials, employer engagement, and supportive state policy that would develop demand-driven career pathways in six major cities. In this What Works report, JPMorganChase explores the lessons learned from NSRN that can be scaled across communities to expand youth economic mobility.

This publication details seven key components of a modernized tuition assistance program, including flexibility, inclusiveness, affordability, and support. This information can be useful to employers seeking to develop or enhance a tuition assistance program and to practitioners who work with businesses to improve worker mobility.

A focus on skills based learning, Skillful – an initiative of the Markle Foundation – works with employers, educators, policymakers and others to help the nearly 70% of Americans without college degrees get good jobs based on the skills they have or the skills they can learn – creating new opportunities for success in the digital era.

This statement from the Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs from America’s largest corporations, outlines why the private sector should commit to strengthening jobs. It can be useful for practitioners across fields to understand language and messaging that may resonate with many businesses.