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Why a Human Capital Laboratory? Why Career and Technical Education (CTE)? Because it is time to rethink and reimagine the dance of people, programs, and jobs in a more fluid AI data lake model where alignments are measured and opportunities serviced based on the likelihood of people for programs, and programs connected to jobs, tasks, or opportunities, and maybe employer bots that go looking for the best training likely to yield a well-suited employee or candidate for assignments.
Overview
Since 2014, NLET has worked on the education-to-employment issue in terms of supporting technology and cultural change that would a) enable individuals to have easy access to b) education and training that is c) directly aligned with the job market.
The Human Capital Lab is focused more on developing talent (in schools, recent graduates), on up-skilling or job-changing talent, those displaced by AI, or transitioning talent from the military, incarceration, or re-entering the workforce. This is different from people with existing resumes and resume density who are handled by the large job boards like ZipRecruiter, Indeed, and LinkedIn. The fact is the non-AI jobs where people are needed in the lower and mid-levels are going to be harder to fill and more competitive.
Labor market development and human capital development lag far behind other sectors of the economy because education/training and hiring are still relatively traditionally-based activities that have not been transformed into unified data systems that seamlessly navigate around the traditional artifacts and processes of resumes, course listings, and job postings. Jobs change so quickly in the labor market and in various sectors that the processes and jobs are opaque to potential employees and to training firms and institutions.
The analogy is thinking of three trains traveling on parallel tracks at different rates. One has people on it. The second train has courses, programs, certifications, and degrees. The third has employers and their open jobs. To get a person to jump into the right training for the aligned job is difficult. Likewise, for an employer to find the properly trained person is difficult. The process is complicated by the fact that the person usually has no standing except for a resume. Yet the people are what the institutions, training organizations, and employers want and need. They have no standing.
Much of this process is random and is getting more complicated because the jobs are difficult to know about and AI will be breaking apart traditional work and “jobs,” where people may be doing fractional work in a number of places. Many middle managers may being bots and the jobs that require a person, even at lower levels, will be harder to fill.
Core Members
Each of these core members is committed to working new models that believe in the centrality of the individual to institutions and training bodies and to employers and believe in ways to co-manage.
Individual Participants
NLET’s Human Capital Lab partners with leading nonprofits, foundations and agencies that are committed to true ecosystems to connect people, programs and employers to support regional economies.
Innovate-Educate [hyperlink, www.Innovate-Educate.org]
Innovate+Educate has been a leading force across the U.S. on skills, skills based hiring and skills-based training. Our work has expanded from large global companies on their skills-based hiring efforts (Hyatt, Tufts Medical Center and more), and grassroots efforts like our Santa Fe County Pro Skills Program, a program that provides skills and leadership training to youth and young adults in Santa Fe County. We work with each graduate of Pro Skills to place them into internships, job interviews, and full-time employment. Innovate+Educate (and Pro Skills) is a member of the Northern New Mexico Work Based Learning Coalition, an effort focused on work-based learning efforts across Northern NM, including employer partnerships and job placement.
AZNext (ASU) [hyperlink, https://wpcarey.asu.edu/aznext]
LOGO
The Arizona State University AZNext Program is a public-private partnership designed to create a bold, innovative, and sustaining workforce development ecosystem that addresses the need for more skilled workers in IT, cybersecurity, and advanced manufacturing roles. Through bridging collaboration between the W. P. Carey School of Business, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, and New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences with employers, workforce development networks, economic development organizations, and industry partnerships, AZNext creates job-training, upskilling, and reskilling models designed to connect technically skilled and certified workforce to next generation jobs.
Michigan Center for Innovation in Education (Michigan CIE) [hyperlink, https://michigancie.org/]
LOGO
The Center of Innovation for Education (CIE) is committed to facilitate greater technology and cultural innovation, collaboration and reinvention throughout Michigan’s education system to achieve measurable benefits for students. The CIE aims to capture this mindset and turn it into a movement. The CIE sees government, public education, business and charity working together as one to remove barriers and implement the very best in innovation and collaboration to meet the learning needs of every single student in Michigan – no exceptions. “Every student deserves the opportunity to learn how, what, when and where is best for their personal development and future success, and the innovations, initiatives and intentions exist to help make this happen.”