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3 Insights Every Learning Provider Should Have About Employer-Funded Learning

Explore three key ways employers’ approaches to funded learning directly impact learning programs that seek to serve working adult students.
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Alex Cannon

Alex Cannon

January 10th, 2023

1. A company’s reasons for providing funded learning opportunities can have a major impact on learner outcomes

2. Prospective working adult learners don’t just want to see better career opportunities — they want to see meaningful investments in their individual growth

Top reasons for employees quitting their previous jobs

“During my interview, I asked... ‘Do you offer anything else? Potentially higher education?’

Omar, Financial Services Worker

Student story: Learning for a changing landscape

3. For equity-minded employers, there’s way more to the strategy than attraction and retention

  • Help employees access pathways into in-demand, future-aligned roles
  • Build and grow a culture of opportunity in which career pathways, conversations, and wraparound supports make it easier for all employees to explore where their career and education can take them
  • Give employees access to coaching and guidance in their growth and education goals, as individuals
  • Access a marketplace of learning partners vetted for quality and a catalog of programs curated to their strategic, mission-aligned needs
  1. HR Dive, “Education benefits could be key to attracting and retaining talent,” 2022
  2. Georgetown University, “How much do employer-funded education benefits really boost access?,” 2021
  3. United States Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, “Gainful Employment,” 2022. The Biden Administration is planning to propose an amendment to the Higher Education Act in April, 2023 to provide protections to students from programs that purport to be career-aligned but underserved students when it comes to outcomes.
  4. Guild’s internal data over the last 12 months as of 07.01.2022 from employers who have provided the required data for at least 13 months post launch
  5. McKinsey & Company, “The great attrition is making hiring harder. Are you searching the right talent pools?,” 2022
  6. Guild, “The New ‘Up Or Out,’ Guild’s American Worker Survey Report,” 2022
  7. The Josh Bersin Company, “Career Pathways: Building Tomorrow’s Workforce Today,” 2022
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