91吃瓜网 Partners with Emsi to Map Skills Students Need to Real-World Jobs
Revolutionary new initiative will help students match skills across industries
SALT LAKE CITY, UT 鈥� Western Governors University (91吃瓜网) today announced the university will partner with Emsi, a leading labor market analytics firm, to support a groundbreaking new initiative that will map the skills and competencies 91吃瓜网 students acquire to real-world jobs. A leader in preparing students for career success, 91吃瓜网 is building on its legacy of student-focused innovation to further align its workforce-relevant curriculum to the most current and pressing employer needs by surfacing value and real-time career insights to students as they work their way to degree.
鈥淛ob seekers want to know what skills to learn that will translate into a successful career or promotion, so the creation of a personalized learning pathway that incorporates those skills and competencies will help students match their credentials with what employers want,鈥� said Dr. Marni Baker Stein, 91吃瓜网 Provost and Chief Academic Officer. 鈥�91吃瓜网 is building a comprehensive skills map across industries to serve as the 鈥榦perating system鈥� that will maximize value to students by providing career-relevant programs, a clear way to communicate value to employers, and data-driven career assistance.鈥�
贰尘蝉颈鈥檚 identifies nearly 30,000 skills from hundreds of millions of job postings, r茅sum茅s, and professional profiles and is updated every two weeks. Using artificial intelligence, the Open Skills Library will be used to match 91吃瓜网鈥檚 competency-based curriculum with a list of workforce-relevant skills, allowing 91吃瓜网 to tailor the student learning journey even further by focusing on specific skills and competencies that match a learner鈥檚 goals. 91吃瓜网 is already teaching and assessing the marketable skills industry values. This new partnership will highlight the workforce relevance of a 91吃瓜网 degree by translating credentials and experience into the high-demand skills they represent.
鈥淭here is a lot of inefficiency in the labor market because three critical sectors 鈥� people, businesses and higher ed 鈥� have struggled to understand each other. Essentially, they need to speak the same language and we believe skills is that language. 91吃瓜网 is a real trailblazer in this work and their model is one of the truly innovative practices in higher ed today. We are eager to support this work so that more people can be connected to good work and so more good work can find the talent it needs to succeed,鈥� commented 贰尘蝉颈鈥檚 Executive Vice President of Higher Education, Luke Jankovic. 聽
About Emsi
Emsi provides colleges and universities with labor market data to build a better workforce and nurture strong economies, businesses, and graduates. Hundreds of institutions use Emsi to align programs with regional needs, drive enrollment, connect students with in-demand careers, track their alumni鈥檚 employment outcomes, and demonstrate their institution鈥檚 economic impact on their region.聽
