Our Work

Talent Development Solution

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.

To read the full report click here

To read an Executive Summary of the Report click here

Workforce Readiness Blog Posts

  • 04/10/2013
    Data Supports Corporate Voices’ Ongoing Efforts to Strengthen America’s Businesses and Job-Seeking Young Adults Through Smarter Workforce Training Investments Last week, Demos, a New York-based  non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization, released its report, Stuck: Young America’s Persistent Jobs Crisis, highlighting the current youth employment crisis in the United States and examining how the […]
  • 03/28/2013
    Corporate Voices for Working Families’ 2013 Annual Partners Meeting put the spotlight last week  on corporate leadership beyond the workplace, providing presentations rich in content, lively discussions and opportunities for attendees to network with other business leaders and policymakers.
  • 02/14/2013
    Domestic policy was front and center during the first State of the Union Address of President Obama’s second term. The President spent most of his speech calling for tax and entitlement reform, spending on education and energy, gun control and immigration reform. One item of particular importance to Corporate Voices and its partner companies was […]