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Emerge Career’s pre-release job training lands $3.2M seed and new state contracts

TechCrunch

Security and limited budgets at vocational and community colleges limit the amount of help they can actually offer people in the system, and courses from GEDs to trades often take a very “study by mail” approach during incarceration, or traditional brick and mortar one on release.

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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

CIO

Some also fill the role of an organizational agile coach. At the team level, the Scrum master provides guidance, coaching, support, and facilitation, and helps remove any obstacles that teams may encounter along the way. Provide coaching to agile teams. Some Scrum masters also serve as a team’s project manager. Others do not.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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Per Scholas redefines IT hiring by diversifying the IT talent pipeline

CIO

He went into the community and offered people jobs, promising to train them how to repair the computers. The plan worked, but with a twist: Talent Ayala recruited and trained would eventually leave after a year for jobs in the technology industry. Wilson says. “As

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5 Ways Companies Are Addressing Skills Gaps in Their Workforce

Harvard Business Review

As training budgets inevitably come under pressure, organizations will need to find more targeted ways to address their skills gaps. We’re in an unusual economic situation, one where recession fears are high but the job market is tight.

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5Mins makes your employees better, a few minutes at a time

TechCrunch

If you’ve ever had to sit through corporate training videos while you feel your will to live slowly ebb out of every pore of your body, a new startup has some good news for you. The goal is to even out the talent development pipeline. “What was clear to me while scaling Perkbox and serving thousands of employers was that the no.

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MLSE looks to revolutionize sports experience with digital R&D lab

CIO

From how players train, to how teams make strategic decisions during games, to how venues operate and fans engage, sports organizations are turning to software engineers and data scientists to help transform the sport experience. Digital solutions and data analytics are changing the world of sports entertainment at a rapid clip.

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