Category: Businesses Work-Learn Insights

2024 Nobel Laureate Hinton Urges Global Awareness of AI Risks and Opportunities

by dream2career, posted in Businesses Work-Learn Insights, consulting, cybersecurity awareness, cybersecurity training, Dream2Career, HR Professionals, Micro-Drip, microcourses

Geoffrey Hinton, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence and the 2024 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, has issued a pressing call for greater global understanding of the potential risks and benefits of AI. His concerns, expressed during a recent interview with Nobel Prize officials, underscore the urgent need for ethical development and responsible deployment of this powerful technology. These policies require a deeper understanding and additional training before full adoption of this invention.

Widely regarded as the “godfather of AI,” Hinton’s recent departure from Google was a significant statement about his growing concerns regarding the potential negative consequences of AI. His decision to leave Google, allowed him to speak more freely about the dangers of the technology he had helped create.

During the Nobel Prize press conference, Hinton emphasized the importance of recognizing both the potential benefits and risks associated with AI. While he acknowledged the immense potential of AI in areas such as healthcare, he also expressed deep concern about the possibility of the technology becoming uncontrollable. “We have no experience of what it’s like to have things smarter than us,” he stated.

Hinton’s Nobel Prize win, along with his urgent warnings, highlights the critical need for a global conversation about the future of AI. By fostering a deeper understanding of the potential risks and benefits, we can work together to ensure that AI is developed and deployed in a way that benefits humanity and minimizes harm.

If you are considering AI adoption for your organization, talk to the experts and get your employees trained about the threats and opportunities that AI offers. Dream2Career’s Cyber Awareness Training bundle is a terrific way to achieve to get your employees upskilled about cybersecurity without having to disrupt your entire operation for training.

The Upskilling Imperative: A New Admissions Process for Working Adults

by dream2career, posted in Admissions Professionals, Businesses Work-Learn Insights, HR Professionals, Workforce Development

Millions of adults lack the credentials needed for in-demand jobs, while employers struggle to fill open positions with motivated workers. The traditional college admissions process, designed for recent high school graduates, isn’t equipped to address this current dynamic. We have an opportunity to bridge this gap by creating a new admissions process specifically for working adults so they find passion through learning and they want to work hard to succeed. 

The Urgent Need for Upskilling

  • Talent Shortage: 40% of employers can’t find qualified candidates, costing companies an average of $4,129 per hire.
  • High Turnover: With an 18% average job turnover rate, businesses constantly need to fill open positions.
  • Underutilized Benefits: Companies offer tuition assistance programs, but only 2-5% of eligible employees participate.

Unveiling the Potential

Over 40 million Americans lack a college degree or relevant credential. Tuition assistance programs and a new admissions process can transform this untapped potential into a highly skilled and motivated workforce.

Why Upskilling Benefits Everyone

  • Reduced Costs: Research from Accenture shows companies save through higher retention and internal promotions.Discover Financial Services and Cigna each saved money through tuition reimbursement, while employees saw substantial wage increases.
  • Increased Motivation: Investing in employees’ education boosts confidence, motivation, and job satisfaction.

A New Admissions Model for Working Adults

The traditional model separates programs into college vs. vocational or skills-based training. This disjointed system offers over 60,000 learning providers and 1 million credential programs, making quality and outcomes difficult to assess.

Furthermore, education, a right for every American, isn’t equally accessible. The current process doesn’t simplify admissions or help employees envision their success path. Many lack passion for learning, focusing solely on advancement. This can lead to disengagement at work and a lack of overall career satisfaction. Dream2Career uses HIF Logic to ignite learner passion through inspiring content. We then guide them towards best-fit learning programs that align with their interests and goals.

Adult learners face unique challenges, including recovery, re-entry, immigration status, childcare, and transportation. Dream2Career’s Adult admissions process overcomes these complications and effectively guides all groups to relevant resources while creating a sense of belonging among this newly formed community of learners that is diverse and committed to helping their classmates succeed. 

Dream2Career’s Adult Admissions Model – Operation Dream Landing 

Collaboration for Success

By working together, we are able to create a flexible and accessible college admissions process for working adults.This creates a win-win-win for businesses, learning providers and communities. 

  • Employees: Gain access to education and inspiring career advancement opportunities.
  • Employers: Build a more qualified happy workforce and reduce turnover costs.
  • Educators: Expand access to education onramps and serve a growing student population.

The future of American competitiveness hinges on reimagining education so the system works for everyone. Let’s embrace the opportunity to create a new educational pathway for working adults, ensuring a skilled, motivated, workforce and thriving local economies.

Workforce Calendar- Celebrate Employees Throughout the Year

by Edu-Advisor, posted in Businesses Work-Learn Insights, HR Professionals, Workforce Development

Dream2Career uses this workforce calendar, which includes National Career Recognition days to help businesses attract and retain talent. Bookmark this page and celebrate your employees’ hard work and dedication throughout the year. Help to inspire the workforce of tomorrow by teaming up with local learning providers on these dates. 

National College Signing Day – February 2, 2022

National Employee Appreciation Day – March 4, 2022

Workforce Equality Day (International Women’s Day) – March 8, 2022

National Job Shadowing Week – March 20-March 26, 2022

Bring Your Child to Work Day – April 28, 2022

Workforce Diversity Day (World Day for Cultural Diversity) – May 21, 2022

Celebrating Summer Camps For Adults – June 1-June 30, 2022

Back-to-School – August 20-September 8, 2022

Labor Day – September 5, 2022

National Disability Employment Awareness – October 1-October 31, 2022

National Credential Exploration Week – October 16-22, 2022

National Entrepreneurship Month – November 1-November 30, 2022

World Kindness Day – November 13, 2022

National Apprenticeship Week – November 14-20, 2022

Dream2Career Offers a Post-COVID Hiring Strategy

by Edu-Advisor, posted in Businesses Work-Learn Insights, Workforce Development

Let’s face it, people are not returning to work Post-COVID. We all want life to get back to normal, but there are many challenges that are preventing employees from returning to the workforce. 

Employers are looking for ways to:

  • Reward those who stayed on in the workforce
  • Find motivated entry-level talent
  • Reduce hiring costs
  • Inspire their current workforce
  • Increase ROI

Dream2Career, LLC (D2C) developed a Post-COVID recruitment plan that will help to inspire the next generation and help businesses to find and grow their workforce. D2C looks at this problem differently than any other hiring group and they understand the complexities that employers and employees are facing.

Dream2Career now offers affordable, job embedded, online degree programs in collaboration with accredited colleges. They use a distance education model to upskill your current workforce by offering training that perfectly aligns with employers’ workforce needs.

Because the credits are offered by an accredited school, employees can use Federal funding to reduce corporate training costs. This program attracts best-fit talent by providing a new hiring upskill incentive for prospective employees.
This learning community will provide an innovative culture for maximum impact and significant ROI.

D2C uses the Horizontal Industry Framework (HIF) to re-invent the work-learn space and to help businesses thrive. They help businesses find and hire employees who perfectly fit the needs of entry-level positions and upskill current employees who add value to the bottom-line.

The D2C mission is to integrate the HIF so that schools, businesses, and workforce groups can collaborate on talent development to offer win, win, win solutions that positively impact communities. Their goal is to help students and displaced workers find on-ramps to dream careers.

They help organizations create communities that embrace diversity of thought, increase innovation, and make communities stronger through a shared vision of success!

If you have a business that is looking for an effective recruitment strategy post-COVID, contact Dream2Career to reinvent your hiring practices by using a simplified, streamlined process that gets results.

Re-Imagining Learning Communities For a Stronger Workforce

by Edu-Advisor, posted in Admissions Professionals, Businesses Work-Learn Insights, HR Professionals, Visionaries, Work-Learn Solutions for Businesses, Workforce Development

According to Internet Live Stats there are more than 1.7 billion websites. That number does not include the actual number of pages of content on each website. Just to provide a context for this number, small companies will easily have over 100 pages of content so it is difficult to comprehend the actual volume of data that is available online. This statistic becomes even more distorted when adding personal content like blog posts and other types of digital and social media. It is clear why the internet is a quagmire when looking for quality information.

What can be even more frustrating is that the websites with the most insightful information are never seen by the masses because these types of researchers, teachers, and developers lack the resources or the interest to “ranking number one on Google”. These educators want to provide information that is useful and will help others on their pathway to success. That is why it is critical to re-imagine education so that those who have the answers can simply connect virtually with those seeking a solution to that specific problem.

Dream2Career is re-imagining and simplifying the digital network for work-based learning experiences by connecting the learning provider and with interested students.  When students, parents, and educators get together with businesses and schools, learning happens and pathways emerge leading users to their dream careers. Educational agents work with the best learning programs and event providers to help students find and answer the question, “What should I do with the rest of my life?”. We help learning communities promote solutions, best practices, and mentorship in ways that supports the needs and curiosity of the student.

Dream2Career is designed to help businesses and schools promote programs and events to those interested in each specific discipline. Every program is not right for every student and Dream2Career has a mission of helping students connect with the right resources leading to their dream careers.  We do this by using our marketing expertise and an algorithm that is built upon the career clusters identified by the Department of Education and encompasses opportunities that highlight the 1100+ jobs identified by the Department of Labor. We work with schools and businesses to provide free access to resources that match and engage students and educators with local and virtual opportunities so they can be inspired about the future world of work.

National Challenge: 90 Days to a Career Ready America

National Challenge: 90 Days to a Career-Ready America

by Edu-Advisor, posted in Admissions Professionals, Advice for Workers and Career Seekers, Businesses Work-Learn Insights, HR Professionals, Marketing Professionals, Trending, Work-Learn Solutions for Businesses, Workforce Development

Dream2Career challenges educational leaders to participate in 90 Days to a Career-Ready America. Schools and businesses that offer online experiences like webinars, courses, certificates, badges, degree programs, activities, virtual tours, educational games, learning communities, presentations, camps, educational kits, internships, mentorships, scholarships, incubators, or events for students of any age or ability, can post these experiences in a new way.  Dream2Career quickly connects learning experiences with the appropriate types of students based on their individual interest profiles.

Access to information has become a challenge because there is so much of it. Many organizations are posting lists of online learning resources for students. This is helpful, yet it takes too long for students and parents read through and check each website regarding all the of opportunities on the list, most of which do not apply to each unique circumstance.  These lists are all encompassing and consequently, poorly match to what each specific the learner is trying to achieve. Dream2Career filters learning experiences based on the user’s interests so students can quickly find the relevant information to immediately begin the learning process that matches their interests and aspirations.

Dream2Career is a women-led tech startup that developed a platform for schools and businesses to post online learning experiences in a student-focused way. Students, parents, educators, and career seekers need a resource that quickly matches needs and interests to the appropriate learning on-ramps. Using a unique algorithm, the platform integrates users interests and filters them through the Department of Education’s career clusters making it easy for users to receive only relevant learning experiences.

Some of the Best Planning Occurs in “Captivation”

Because of “shelter in place” rules, families are going to want to find tools that are useful in finding quality experiences to do at home. This unusual form of confinement offers individuals time to plan for their dream life and the best free tool to help families with this process is Dream2Career. NPR followed a group of inmates who completed degrees in prison and found that the learning experiences were able to inspire hope by making the time in confinement easier and more productive.  It is important to be able to see beyond our “incarceration” to life after this horrible pandemic. Using this newly found time to learn and to grow will inspire new ideas and it will create opportunities for a more promising future.

When we learn about things that interest us, innovation and prosperity await us on other side of this national disaster. Students, parents, mentors, and educators can register for free and we will email learning experiences that match the completed interest profile.

If you are a business or a school post learning experiences and help communities to find and prepare for dream careers.

Rudy Ruiz: Leading K-20 Visionary

by Edu-Advisor, posted in Businesses Work-Learn Insights, Solving the Work-Learn Problem, Trending, Visionaries

It is an exciting time to be working in the education industry because solutions are emerging that are bringing opportunity to schools across the nation. One of the reasons for this innovation boom is because of great educational leaders, like Rudy Ruiz. By spearheading these efforts, Ruiz is making a difference in his home state of Maryland and these visionary solutions are being replicated in other states, which is positively impacting a growing number of student success stories.

Visionary Leader in Education
Visionary Leader in Education, Rudy Ruiz

Rudy Ruiz is a Partner at FourPoint Education Partners and the former Chief Education Officer of the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education. He and his team developed an amazing student-focused mobile app called Way to Be. This innovative solution helps students learn from experts about high demand and emerging industries and it helps them to find on-ramps that match their interests to aspirational careers. This app is being adopted by the Maryland School Districts and is currently being upgraded to include relevant information that applies to other states. This project is one of many that Ruiz has on his agenda for bringing access and opportunity to students across that nation.

Because of his experiences and his background, Rudy is on a mission to make the world a better place.  He is particularly interested in helping to inspire disadvantaged youth because he personally experienced opportunities and challenges that shaped his beliefs, while growing up in a poor minority neighborhood in Milwaukee.  He was fortunate to have a strong family full of love that supported him, even during the most difficult times. He says, “I have spent the past 18 years in the classroom, in school leadership, in district leadership, in state leadership, and now supporting communities nationally, to close these equity gaps in access and opportunity to high-quality educational experiences and outcomes.” His experiences and personal understanding of their struggles, gives him the strength and tenacity to continue pushing forward. His ability to endure, while continuing to reaffirm his beliefs, are what bring about innovation and progress.

One can’t help but to be inspired by his passion and get-it-done attitude.  Rudy Ruiz is a true visionary who continues to enhance the world of education for the next generation.

Trending Educational Tool

Trending Women Tech Startups: Dream2Career develops the Amazon for Education

by Edu-Advisor, posted in Admissions Professionals, Businesses Work-Learn Insights, Work-Learn Solutions for Businesses, Workforce Development

There is a desperate need for an interest matching solution for education like Amazon’s marketplace for products.  Dream2Career, a women-owned tech startup, is working on this problem for students and career-seekers across the nation. There are so many different types of programs and learning opportunities, traditional and non-traditional pathways, certificates, badges, camps, hackathons, apprenticeships, internships, incubators, scholarships, etc. that students can’t easily find the best learning program for them without having to review multiple websites and pages of information. Students have wasted hours researching, using dreaded search engines, to find experiences only to miss the best learning opportunities leading to high demand and emerging careers.  The complexity of the educational system makes interest and opportunity matching extremely difficult without a dedicated search tool.

Furthermore, educational institutions are forced to spend up to 6% of their operating budget on marketing which includes buying keywords that consequently, result in fewer and fewer additional prospective student views of their educational programs. The lack of an integrated network results in rising tuition costs, less student satisfaction, and decreased retention rates. The net result is under-educated communities that fail to meet the needs of local businesses.

The nation needs a work-based learning network that is designed, specifically to pinpoint and match user interests and requirements with local learning experiences designed for them. Dream2Career worked with students, educators, businesses, and the D&I community to design the Edu-Advisor platform where users can find categories of interest and quickly locate learning on-ramps and experiences. Dream2Career is also offering users the opportunity to sign up today and receive future updates about local learning experiences that match career interests. Dream2Career is also designing an Edu-Advisor app, but until then, it is best to subscribe here to keep up to date and to start living your dream life.

Imagine a world where learning experiences were organized based on interests and where the system made recommendations of similar learning opportunities. How cool would this solution be? Enter the keywords or searchable fields organized into six mega clusters, and have access to local events and programs that put students, parents, educators and career-seekers on pathways to success. No longer would there be a need to find the company and then hope they have a learning program for you to get your foot in the door. No longer would there be a need to pick a school and then hope they have your major or program of interest. No longer would families struggle to find fun and educational places to go and things to do together. Communities would begin to work on discovering, growing, and thriving as they work towards a common goal–Prosperity through education and connection!

 

National Job Shadowing Week 2020

National Job Shadowing Week | Inspire Student Success | March 22-28, 2020

by Edu-Advisor, posted in Businesses Work-Learn Insights, HR Professionals, Trending, Work-Learn Solutions for Businesses, Workforce Development

Join the Local Community of Learning and Help Students Succeed

Register your Job Shadowing Event Here

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