Opportunity@Work
@OpptyatWork
#TearThePaperCeiling: Let's shatter the myth that no degree equals no skill to open up opportunities for STARs (workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes).
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http://www.opportunityatwork.org 08-03-2015 18:23:28
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Here's to another great year of creating opportunities for our STARs (Skilled Through Alternative Routes). Happy 2024! #HireSTARs
'If companies don’t have a STARs talent strategy, they only have half a talent strategy.”
WATCH: Our CEO Byron Auguste was interviewed by Ryan Stowers, the executive director of the Charles Koch Fdn., to discuss our #tearthepaperceiling campaign and how companies should create…
Top story: Gates Foundation awards $102 million to expand economic mobility. Part of a four-year, $460 million commitment, grantees include: The Families and Workers Fund Opportunity@Work Urban Institute Prosperity Now Pacific Community Ventures (PCV) Results for America bit.ly/3NjgK3O
Federal & State governments are already promoting #skillsbasedhiring Opportunity@Work to tear the paper ceiling...
DELIGHTED to share that the Gates Foundation announced their commitment to STARs (workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes) as part of the foundation’s four-year commitment to improve economic systems for everyone.
50% of US workers are STARs. With the Gates Foundation’s…
AI-based career navigation interventions must be designed to center or consider structural inequities. Learn more about this, and other issues relating to career navigation, in “Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change” from National Fund for Workforce Solutions…
'The college degree that was once a bridge to opportunity has become a drawbridge that gets pulled up if you don’t have a bachelor’s degree.'
Inspired by this #TearThePaperCeiling feature by Anti-Racism Daily!
the-ard.com/2023/12/05/the…
Skills matter. No matter where you learned them.
We must recognize the different pathways in which people learn their skills.
#HireSTARs
Where did you learn the skills to do your current job?