What Kinds of Technologies & Tools Would Increase Your Workforce Development Impact?

Evolving technologies have the potential to help solve growing workforce challenges like the rise of automation, crushing student debt, low wages, and growing skills gaps. But workforce training systems are only one piece of the puzzle when it comes to preparing for the future of work.

Technology can be useful in all aspects of a workforce development initiative, especially when it comes to collecting data for, measuring, evaluating, and communicating a partnership or organization’s impact.

Inspired by Jobs for the Future, the Tips and Tools: Building Tech-Enabled Workforce Development Partnerships guide provides an overview of some of the issues and opportunities surrounding technology & workforce development partnerships, particularly as they relate to data collection and evaluation.

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• Understand the key insights from Jobs for the Future’s Field Guide for Workforce Technology Solutions
• Learn about tools for measuring and validating impact in a workforce development partnership
• Learn about a shared impact framework for workforce development
• Understand what unified data management systems are and why they are important in workforce development
• Determine whether a technology solution is right for your workforce development partnership

The Inspiration: Jobs for the Future

Jobs for the Future (JFF) is an organization that focuses on transforming the American workforce to achieve more equitable outcomes. JFF recently released their Field Guide for Workforce Technology Solutions – Strategies and Approaches for Building Tech-Enabled Training Partnerships. The guide presents critical lessons learned through the initial phases of the Future of Work Grand Challenge, launched in June 2020. This challenge is designed to accelerate the development and implementation of education and training solutions (particularly technologies) to growing workforce challenges like the rise of automation, crushing student debt, low wages, and growing skills gaps). Through the $12 Million Challenge, JFF, MIT Solve, and XPRIZE hope to fund the most promising ideas and solutions aimed at:

1. Rapidly reskilling 25,000 displaced workers into living-wage jobs.
2. Supplying workforce boards with vetted technologies to support these displaced workers.
3. Stimulating systemic changes to help 12 million Americans living in underserved communities achieve workforce success by 2025.