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The Josh Bersin Group’s largest study to-date on the L&D practices that drive critical talent, business and innovation business outcomes concluded that the #1 most impactful L&D is creating extensive career growth options.1 And we are not surprised: our data shows that companies that work with Guild see an average return of $3 for every $1 spent on strategic education and skilling tied to career mobility.2 What is surprising, however, is that: Only 1 out of 5 organizations provide extensive...

When it comes to the demographic makeup and the capabilities of boards, many are still business as usual — or going in the wrong direction. Even as talent continues to be a top priority at the board level, only have an HR representative — and more than half of those joined between 2019 and 2021. Today’s boards are stacked with relevant experience for priorities related to finance, risk, and M&A. When they need financial experience or an Audit Committee chair, they’ll bring on a CFO.

Distortive Trends: Flawed thinking can prevent companies from taking advantage of the enormous talent opportunity within their business. While employer sponsored education benefits seemed tried and true in attracting and retaining talent just a few years ago, it simply isn’t enough in the current market. Unlocking career mobility by creating extensive opportunities for career advancement is critical in driving business, people and innovation outcomes.

The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2020 showed that nearly half of all American workers will require reskilling by the year 2025. At this year’s World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Guild was honored to be featured among innovations and innovators to watch, as the critical link between access to education and opportunity remains abundantly clear and top-of-mind for equity-minded policymakers.

February 16, 2022 HR and People teams are huge assets in charting business challenges — as long as they are a united force, brought together to be a part of the solution. But these teams are always facing something new: Tumultuous labor market trends, rising expectations from employees, competing priorities, ever-changing industry jargon, you name it.

February 10, 2022 Today Macy’s officially launches their fully-funded education program with Guild Education. Macy’s has a very special place in my heart and I want to share a bit about one of its employees, my grandma Yvonne. My grandma raised nine kids (you read that right — nine!) and as her youngest entered high school in 1973, she decided she wanted to take a job. Like most women of her generation, she had only completed high school, but she was a grade-A student in the school of life.

It has become a cliche that American higher education is paradoxically both the envy of the world and abysmal. It is the envy of the world because the sector helps drive American productivity and competitiveness with a diversity of institutions. And it is abysmal because runaway college costs have significantly outpaced inflation, which has resulted in more than $1.7 trillion of student debt.

February 4, 2022 A belief I hold dearly is that people shouldn’t have to make a choice between audacious career goals and audacious family goals. Guild’s workforce spans many caregiving needs – ranging from the 70+ babies who joined Guild families this year to eldercare to a whole lot of households surviving the pandemic with jobs, kids, and a whole lot of zoom! We know that juggling work and caretaking can be a burden on busy and loving households, and it’s been especially hard in...

January 28, 2022 Most companies say they want to improve internal mobility. But how can you measure what actions will have the maximum impact? Last year, a team at Guild set out to find out. In the summer and fall of 2021, we conducted research that included more than 75 papers, podcasts, and articles about internal mobility (IM). Then we took what we learned to our employer partners as well as a handful of other companies in the midst of their own IM strategy.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) serve a disproportionate amount of low-income and first generation college students (52% of HBCU learners are first generation college students, 71% qualify as low-income). According to the United Negro College Fund, 80 percent of HBCU students use federal loans to finance school versus 55 percent of their non-HBCU peers, causing them to graduate with substantially higher rates of student debt.