Jacob Orrin: Nov 13, 2024
Your people are your most valuable asset and your biggest competitive advantage. Invest in them wisely, and they’ll take your company places you...
Dani Esterline: Nov 7, 2024
Big workforce initiatives thrive on strong collaboration between ecosystem partners; however, navigating those projects may sometimes be challenging....
Dani Esterline: Oct 28, 2024
The workforce is increasingly shifting toward a technology-driven landscape to meet the needs of a skills-based economy. As the National Skills...
Merit: Oct 10, 2024
The workforce ecosystem is transitioning to a skills-based economy, which naturally requires new approaches and technologies to adapt to this change....
Dani Esterline: Oct 3, 2024
Anything worthwhile takes hard work, but it's always easier with support. Workforce ecosystem players understand this better than anyone, especially...
Merit: Oct 3, 2024
We sat down with Jason Weigle, Program Manager at the Extension Foundation, to explore how tools such as Digital Wallets and Learning and Employment...
Merit: Sep 26, 2024
As the workforce development landscape continues to evolve with new technologies such as Learning and Employment Records (LERs) and Digital Wallets,...
Dani Esterline: Sep 23, 2024
There has recently been a significant shift to skills-based hiring practices in the workforce. As players within the workforce ecosystem begin to...
Dani Esterline: Sep 20, 2024
For years, Learning and Employment Records (LERs) have been discussed in philanthropic investments, state workforce development, and higher...
Dani Esterline: Aug 6, 2024
Any meaningful systems change within a workforce ecosystem requires collaboration, strategy, and communication. Though these words all sound...
Laura Ward: Apr 3, 2024
We all know the frustration of running an outstanding learning program only to encounter challenges connecting talented individuals with available...
Dani Esterline: Mar 5, 2024
Connecting learners and job seekers to meaningful pathways requires steady collaboration between education, workforce, and training agencies. When...
Merit: Feb 28, 2024
Merit and Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) of Iowa have announced a partnership aimed at digitizing apprenticeship records and modernizing...
Laura Ward: Oct 20, 2023
There’s been a recent shift to a new skills-based workforce economy and with it comes new terminology. While it can feel a bit overwhelming to keep...
Merit: Jul 11, 2023
Need for Licensing Portability Further Validated by New Study that Shows 80% of Voters Support the Initiative
Merit: Jul 7, 2023
After Laura Schmiegel's husband was transferred by the military for the fourth time in six years, she gave up trying (again) to transfer her legal...
Dani Esterline: Jul 6, 2023
The workforce and education advancement organization Jobs for the Future (JFF,) held its Horizons Annual Summit on June 14th and 15th in New Orleans,...
Merit: Mar 8, 2023
In order to give states the digital credentialing tools to build a system for standards-based workforce reciprocity between states, Merit and ...
Terron Sims, II: Feb 15, 2023
Military families have long struggled with the challenges posed by regular reassignments to new states. These PCS (Permanent Change of Station) moves...
Merit: Nov 3, 2022
Laura Schmiegel was attending the University of Michigan Law School when she met her...