Horizons

 As the world continues to change at a rapid pace, the job market is changing, too. With these changes comes the need for educational institutions and other non-traditional talent pipelines to keep up with the seemingly constant growth and evolution. In this episode, Tameshia discusses the challenges many young people are still facing when it comes to building a successful career, or even choosing the right path to begin with.

Reviewing clips from three different Horizons 2021 conversations, Tameshia discusses how there is an urgent need for policy changes, increased investment, and a more equitable and cohesive journey from educational institutions to the workforce. The episode will explore what’s still standing in the way of career success for many people, and how we can work together to help to streamline the process of career navigation.

The journey from learning to earning can be ambiguous and unstructured. To complete the trek successfully, you have to engage in what’s often called career navigation.

Knowing how to approach career navigation is especially important for young people—our country’s future talent. And that’s the topic JFF addresses in the third episode of our Horizons podcast. Host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield first shares insights from Gorick Ng, author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right. Then workforce development experts Suzan LeVine and Mary Alice McCarthy explore youth apprenticeship. And finally, David Coleman, the CEO of the College Board, talks about rethinking the impact of the SATs.

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In the second episode of the JFF Horizons podcast, Tameshia Bridges Mansfield shares highlights from Horizons presentations that explore the need for the stakeholders in the learn-to-work ecosystem to work together. This month's episode includes insights from a community college system leader who says measuring results is the overlooked key to identifying effective training programs and career pathways. And another education thought leader calls for the full integration of the education and workforce development systems.  Guests include:

Dr. Michael Baston, president of Rockland Community College in Suffern, NY, and co-chair of JFF's Policy Leadership Trust

Lisa Gevelber, chief marketing officer of the Americas region at Google and vice president of Grow With Google

Kaya Henderson, CEO, Reconstruction

Sabari Raja, co-founder and CEO, Nepris

To listen to the full sessions from this episode, visit jff.org/horizons

In this episode of Horizons, Tameshia Bridges Mansfield shares highlights from two powerful discussions about promoting Black talent in the workplace. The first clip features Dalila Wilson-Scott, executive vice president and chief diversity officer of Comcast sharing her perspective on corporate efforts to increase Black, Latinx, and Indigenous worker advancement over the past year. In the second clip, we’ll hear from Maurice Jones, CEO of OneTen, a new coalition of leading executives who are coming together to reskill, hire, and advance 1 million Black Americans over the next 10 years. To listen to the full sessions from this episode, visit jff.org/horizons

Presented by Jobs for the Future (JFF), the Horizons podcast series shares highlights from JFF’s annual Horizons summit. Listen and learn along with host Tameshia Bridges Mansfield, JFF’s vice president for workforce innovation, as we revisit key themes from the conference like building connection, diversity, and innovation in the workforce. Look for new episodes of Horizons every month and don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast. To listen to the full sessions from this episode, visit jff.org/horizons