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Connect with UpSkill America on LinkedIn

Be sure to follow UpSkill America on LinkedIn to stay up to speed on all the exciting work coming in 2025.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Blog Post

12.09.2024
Employment and Jobs

Employer Insights: Validated Skills, Digital Credentials, and Digital Wallets

UpSkill America has released two new pieces focusing on employer experiences and insights around the emerging field of digital credentials, skills profiles ...

BY Haley Glover

Blog Post

11.18.2024
Employment and Jobs

All Learning Counts: Why Data Mobility Is the Key to Skills-Based Talent Management

We share a vision for the future where data mobility has unlocked a truly agile system of work and learning, a system that reflects the changing profile of the workforce — where generations want a flexible approach to career development.

BY Haley Glover & 1 more

Blog Post

11.05.2024
Employment and Jobs

Creating Space to Accelerate Solution Development

The second cohort of the Education and Career Mobility Fellowship gathered for their first seminar in Nashville, Tennessee, this month. As UpSkill America� ...

BY Chelsea Miller

Blog Post

10.22.2024
Employment and Jobs

Employer Insights on Digital Credentials and Skills Profiles: Lessons Learned

UpSkill America, an initiative of the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program, conducted the qualitative study on behalf of Western Governors University. The report describes what employers said they need to make better use of these Learning and Employment Records and makes recommendations for credential providers.

BY Haley Glover

Publication

10.14.2024
Employment and Jobs

Piloting Innovation: Launching LERs in Arizona

Description Karsten’s Ace Hardware includes five stores in the Phoenix area, with about 120 frontline employees. With a well-designed and highly used in ...

BY Haley Glover

Publication

10.10.2024
Employment and Jobs

Education and Career Mobility Fellowship Program Overview Update-2024-25

About the Education and Career Mobility Fellowship Just ten years ago, employer-supported education and career mobility programs were, in large part, hidd ...

BY Haley Glover

Blog Post

06.26.2024
Employment and Jobs

Summer Workplace Jammin’: Less Strobe Lights & More Dance Partners

Picture the scene: a beautiful summer night, everyone gathered for a great concert. The band comes on, lights blaze, pyro erupts – the crowd goes wild! B ...

BY Chris Trout

Blog Post

06.18.2024
Employment and Jobs

Building Opportunities for the Public Sector Workforce

According to the World Economic Forum’s 2023 Future of Jobs Report, employers anticipate that nearly half of all workers’ skills will be disrupted in t ...

BY Haley Glover & 1 more

Blog Post

06.12.2024
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