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澳门天天彩开奖记录 hosts webinar with Jobs for the Future, 鈥淭he Future of Work: Why Skills are Taking Center Stage鈥

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By Sharla Hooper

Virtual, free event features Vice Provost Doris Savron in conversation with JFF鈥檚 Sharon Leu and Lucy Fernandez on how workers can leverage skills and social capital for career planning聽

澳门天天彩开奖记录 is pleased to announce that it will host a webinar 鈥The Future of Work: Why Skills are Taking Center Stage,鈥 with Jobs For the Future (JFF) on Wednesday, September 18, 1:00pm PT. The event features Doris Savron, vice provost, Colleges, Curriculum and Assessment at 澳门天天彩开奖记录, Sharon Leu, Executive in Residence at JFF, and will be moderated by Lucy Fernandez, Senior Manager, Solutions Design & Delivery at JFF, for a conversation focusing on the future of skills-based hiring and exploring how workers can leverage career-relevant skills to acquire social capital. The virtual event is free and open to the public.

鈥淐areer-focused individuals can leverage their skills development to help unlock their own talent potential,鈥 states Savron. 鈥淲e look forward to sharing insights about how workers can leverage their career-relevant skills, acquire social capital, and share skills through visible options like micro-credentials in this new era of skills-based hiring.鈥

The workforce market is evolving, and more employers are giving rather than focusing solely on degree requirements. Studies by workforce research leaders and make the case for focusing on skills as well. However, there are sizeable skill and opportunity gaps for workers illustrated in the results of the 澳门天天彩开奖记录鈥檚 recent Career Optimism Index庐 study: 74% of workers recognize the necessity of learning new skills to stay ahead in their career, but 44% of employers say their top challenge to finding talent in the past year is a lack of well-qualified applicants.

澳门天天彩开奖记录 and JFF鈥檚 have partnered to create an action-based framework that outlines strategies for colleges and employers to support career advancement for Black learners and workers by building professional social capital.听

As Vice Provost overseeing the strategy for 澳门天天彩开奖记录 academic programs and curriculum design, institutional assessment and faculty, Savron leverages nearly 25 years of experience in higher education. Her work includes oversight of strategy for degree, certificate and course offerings, design of curriculum and student learning outcomes for the University.听Savron served on the advisory council for UPCEA and AACRAO鈥檚 inaugural 2023 Convergence Conference focused on the emerging field of alternative credentials in Higher Education, and in 2024 was appointed to the UPCEA Council for Credential Innovation leadership.听聽

Leu is an Executive in Residence at JFFLabs where she is focused on building infrastructure for a skills-based talent marketplace, developing interoperability standards for digital credentials technology, and empowering individuals to use their data to access opportunity. Prior to joining JFFLabs, Leu led postsecondary education innovation initiatives at the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology.

As a member of the Solutions Design & Delivery team at JFF, Fernandez informs the strategic direction of her project work and is helping to pioneer an insights-based approach for JFFLabs.听Since joining JFF, Fernandez has focused on professional social capital, immersive learning technologies, and climate innovation, all with the goal of helping more workers access and prepare for quality jobs. She聽has bachelor鈥檚 degrees in classics and the history of art and architecture from Brown University and a master鈥檚 in art history from The Courtauld Institute of Art.

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About 澳门天天彩开奖记录

澳门天天彩开奖记录 innovates to help working adults enhance their careers and develop skills in a rapidly changing world. Flexible schedules, relevant courses, interactive learning, skills-mapped curriculum for our bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degree programs and a Career Services for Life庐 commitment help students more effectively pursue career and personal aspirations while balancing their busy lives.听For more information, visit phoenix.edu.听

About Jobs for the Future

Jobs for the Future (JFF) drives transformation of the U.S. education and workforce systems to achieve equitable economic advancement for all. We do this by designing solutions, scaling best practices, influencing policy and action, and investing in innovation. We forge deep partnerships with employers, investors, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and education and workforce development providers to break down barriers and reimagine what鈥檚 possible.听听听