Corporate Voices’ latest report, A Talent Development Solution: Exploring Business Drivers and Returns in Learn and Earn Partnerships, provides a summary of research identifying the practices, characteristics, and returns of innovative, business-led partnerships between employers and education providers. It presents a comprehensive overview of this emerging Learn and Earn field —an approach to the connections between employers and education providers that builds the talent pools employers need and offers employees the opportunity to gain tangible skills and earn a postsecondary degree or credential, and a path to a brighter economic future.
A Talent Development Solution explores the business impact of Learn and Earn partnerships, offering examples from some of the nation’s leading corporations. Profiled throughout the report are 22 case studies documenting partnerships between best-practice companies ranging in size, sector, location, and their education provider cohort. The report documents significant positive returns companies can realize by investing in Learn and Earn initiatives—impacts that go beyond building a talent pool (a key driver) to employee engagement, diversity and inclusion, corporate brand recognition and more.
A Talent Development Solution provides a real path forward for employers eager to follow the lead of these best-practice companies.
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