We're unlocking opportunity for America’s workforce through education, skilling, and career mobility. Let's build a future of work that works for everyone.
We are honored to make the
@CNBC
Disruptor 50 list and to be recognized for our work to transform the status quo to unlock opportunities for America’s frontline workforce through education and upskilling. Read more
#Disruptor50
@CNBCDisruptors
We’ve launched a new platform created to help workers make the leap to higher wage roles with access to education and training resources that enable them to prepare to transition into new careers. Learn more about Next Chapter
We’re honored to be recognized as the winner of the 2020
@FastCompany
World Changing Ideas Awards in the education category for our approach to tackling student debt in America
#FCWorldChangingIdeas
We are thrilled to announce an investment from
@StephenCurry30
through
@SC30inc
!
@StephenCurry30
recognizes that while talent is equally distributed, opportunity is not. We are excited to work together to support more working adults.
@RachelRCarlson
JUST IN:
@Walmart
partners with Guild Education to offer college degrees to all 1.4m US Associates. Walmart covers tuition, books, fees; associates just pay $1 per day!
“It’s not only the right thing to do, to take care of people, but it also makes good business sense.”
@Chipotletweets
CPO Marissa Andrada on offering debt-free degrees to employees. More on why employers are investing in education benefits for employees:
Read more about how
@ChipotleTweets
boosted retention by transforming a legacy education offering into a best-in-class program featuring debt-free degrees.
Spoiler: they hit a 90% retention rate for enrolled students.
Our partner
@Walmart
is expanding their education benefit program Live Better U to include tech and trades reskilling certificates through
@eCornell_online
@PennFoster
&
@SNHU
for all part-time and full-time associates, starting on their first day of work.
We’re on a mission to unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education. How? We partner with leading employers and the nation’s top universities and learning providers to offer programs to support working adults & help them avoid student debt.
With this latest expansion,
@WalmartInc
now has one of the most comprehensive, cutting-edge education and upskilling programs in the country.
In this labor market, it's the kind of investment that makes a difference in attracting and retaining talent.
We’re partnering with
@Google
to provide our employer partners access to Google Career Certificates to upskill their workforces.
Certificates include IT support, data analytics, project management and UX design.
#GrowWithGoogle
A recent
@LuminaFound
survey found that 58% of workers say the skills needed for their jobs have changed significantly over the last 5 years, and 94% agree that ongoing education and training is critical.
Read more:
#CareerDevelopmentMonth
BIG NEWS:
@GuildEducation
has closed $157 million in Series D funding led by
@gcvp
with with its Chairman and former
@AmericanExpress
CEO, Ken Chenault, taking a seat on the Guild Board of Directors.
WATCH:
@GuildEducation
CEO & Co-Founder
@RachelRCarlson
on
@BloombergTV
with our newest board member Ken Chenault of
@gcvp
on working together to help more employers expand economic opportunity through education for employees
When it comes to talent strategy and the Future of Work, 2021 will be about disruption, diversity, and an intensifying "talent war."
Read more about these 3 trends and how they'll impact the C-suite, by
@MatthewJDaniel
Watch our CEO & Co-Founder
@RachelRCarlson
’s interview on
@SquawkCNBC
this morning. She shared information on Next Chapter, our new platform to help displaced workers identify and upskill into new roles with employers and sectors that are still hiring.
Excited to announce a $40M Series C - investments from
@felicis
,
@SalesforceVC
and
@Workday
. Big step toward making college a reality for working adults nationally. Join our team at
Our new platform, Next Chapter, supports laid-off and furloughed workers along each stage of their career transition with hands-on coaching, access to reskilling programs and more. Here’s how it works
According to the
@usedgov
, college graduates with a bachelor's degree typically earn 66% more than those with only a high school diploma, and they are also far less likely to face unemployment.
#CareerDevelopmentMonth
How can companies overcome the growing skills gap and challenges in talent upskilling?
@MatthewJDaniel
proposes one novel idea: a human "talent concierge" that can help with creating learning paths and internal mobility.
Read more in
@CLOmedia
Today we’re announcing our acquisition of Entangled to pair education benefits and upskilling solutions with a jobs marketplace to support workers displaced by
#COVID19
.
A special congratulations to Guild learner Carol D’Anna who overcame tremendous challenges, including suffering multiple strokes, but still persevered to achieve her undergraduate diploma from
@SNHU
through
@Walmart
's Live Better You program (with a 4.0 GPA!).
We are excited to be headed into year two of
@Walmart
education program with expanded degree and university offerings, including 14 new tech degrees!
#livebetteru
#education
We’ve developed a way for students to pursue higher ed at low-cost, high-quality schools and acquire skills & knowledge for the future without any short or long-term debt. Read more from our CEO & Co-Founder
@RachelRCarlson
#FCWorldChangingIdeas
The nation’s largest retailer just made a nearly $1 billion investment in career-focused education and development.
A new standard in upskilling has been set. We’re so proud to have started this partnership with
@WalmartInc
in 2018.
Read more from our Senior Strategist
@MichaelBHorn
in
@Forbes
about why employer-based college programs are here to stay (and growing!), even in the era of
#COVID19
Misti knew that gaining a college degree was vital to her future career advancement. She went back to school to get a degree in Business Management and Leadership from
@BellevueU
with
@Walmart
's Live Better U for just $1 a day.
To reach 100% clean energy, the U.S. solar industry will need more than 900,000 solar workers.
In support of that effort,
@GuildEducation
is partnering with
@Sunrun
to launch PowerU, a new fully-funded employee education and upskilling program.
We are excited to announce our new partnership with
@macysnews
to launch a debt-free education program focused on providing all U.S. based colleagues with new skills to grow their career paths forward.
It's been less than a year since we launched our partnership with
@Walmart
and we’ve been thrilled to help thousands of Walmart employees enroll in college, with tens of thousands of students on their heels!
65.7% of students Guild serves said their employer’s education benefit played a major role in their consideration of going back to school by helping them take the next step & 22.2% said they weren’t even thinking about going back to school until they found out about the benefit.
Jesse is an HVAC apprentice who completed the HVACR Technician Career diploma through his employer. The best parts of his new career? A predictable schedule and the increased pay that comes with moving into an in-demand skilled trade.
#CareerDevelopmentMonth
#StudentStories
We all have to take responsibility for ourselves and do whatever it takes to
#stopthespread
. There’s a sense of urgency to flatten the curve and give ourselves and the healthcare system the best chance to get through this pandemic. Share this message and let’s protect each other!
.
@paritypledge
named us on their Best Companies for Women to Advance List 2020! Check out the thread to see what a few of our female leaders had to say about being a woman in the workplace and leading at Guild. ⬇️
Our CEO & Co-Founder
@RachelRCarlson
is on the cover of this month's
@Forbes
as a
#30Under30
alum! Great read on her path to founding Guild & the work we're doing to broaden economic opportunity for America's workforce. Get your print copy 12/31!
Read more about our acquisition of Entangled to help laid-off and furloughed workers and how partnering together on Next Chapter helped serve as a catalyst, from
@denbizjournal
We’re honored to make the
@Forbes
@cloud100
list for the second year in a row alongside other innovative private cloud companies from all over the world! Read more about the
#Cloud100
list and see it in full: ☁️
Join us for a panel on how L&D leaders can implement a culture of learning for every employee, from the frontline to the C-suite, to create an agile, high-performance organization.
Register now:
Tawana shares how the support she received has made a world of difference in her success with going back to school at
@SNHU
.
#ThisIsWhatAStudentLooksLike
In collaboration with a group of the nation’s largest employers and leading academic institutions, we’re launching Next Chapter, a solution that will connect displaced workers with opportunities to upskill into in-demand roles with hiring employers. More:
Congrats to our CEO & Co-Founder
@RachelRCarlson
on being recognized by
@Forbes
on the 30u30 All Time list! Read more about Guild's growth and Rachel's leadership here:
Why is our partner
@Walmart
opening up their education benefit program to all associates from day 1? They've seen higher retention & promotion rates among those participating in Live Better U, for one. Read more from
@HRDive
Incredibly exciting to see our CEO & Co-Founder
@RachelRCarlson
on the cover of
@Forbes
this month. Read the full article when it hits stands at the end of the month!
We’ve partnered with companies like
@TacoBell
to build an education benefit program that works for their employees’ needs with flexible online courses, personalized coaching and employer-sponsored tuition assistance to prevent student debt.
We couldn’t be more excited about our newest partner. By investing in career-aligned education and growth for all 340,000 frontline team members,
@Target
is taking aim in the war for talent.
We are so excited to announce two major promotions on our tech team: Jess Rusin will serve as our new Chief Technology Officer and Bijal Shah
@Bijal7
will serve as our first-ever Chief Experience Officer & Head of Platform. Read more in
@DenBizjournal
(1/5) Guild has grown a lot over the past eight years, and today we’re proud to announce the next step in our evolution that can be described best in two words: career mobility. We're rolling out a new brand and name to represent the career pathways we help employees discover.
We’re thrilled to share that we made
@paritypledge
’s Best Companies for Women to Advance List 2020! We’re honored to be recognized for our commitment to fostering a culture where women feel empowered to pursue both ambitious career and personal goals.
“Non-traditional” students are becoming more of the norm. A full 37% of today’s college students are older than the age of 25.
#LearningandDevelopmentMonth
“There is such a war for talent that compensation isn’t a differentiator."
– Tamla Oates-Forney (SVP & Chief People Officer of
@WasteManagement
) shares why WM is offering debt-free degrees to employees and their dependents.
Last week, we gathered Guild's Denver-based employees for the first time in over a year to share the news of our fundraise.
It's great to be back in person 🙂
Spencer completed an Appliance Repair diploma through his employer-sponsored education benefit to advance his career. As a result, he feels challenged in his day to day work and has better work-life balance.
#CareerDevelopmentMonth
#StudentStories
We’re proud to join the SkillUp Coalition, a newly launched nonprofit designed to help workers displaced by
#COVID19
land in-demand jobs in high-growth industries. Learn more:
What do you think of when you hear “traditional college student”? You might be surprised to learn that only about 16% of college students fit the conventional description of an 18-22 year old who is in college full time.
Learn more about the other 84%:
We are excited to partner with
@WasteManagement
to give their 80,000 employees and dependents access to 170+ fully-funded upskilling programs.
We're proud to help unlock opportunity for a group of employees who have given so much to our society.
We partner with leading companies to help working adult learners continue their education without incurring debt.
40% of prospective students employed by the companies we partner with have existing student debt and cited costs as the
#1
barrier to going back to school.
Guild partner
@Walmart
is now offering skilled trades and digital programs as a part of their Live Better U education benefit program and giving access to all associates from day one of employment. Read more from
@YahooFinance
We’re honored to be listed as one of the fastest-growing companies in America on the
#Inc5000
list! We remain as committed as ever to our mission of unlocking opportunity for America’s frontline workforce through education and upskilling.
@Inc
@Inc5000
Great news to share today!
@GovofCO
has appointed Guild co-founder Brittany Stich to the Colorado Commission on Higher Education, where she’ll lend her expertise and passion to help guide the future of higher education across the state. Congrats Britt!
Shauri always wanted to go back to college to earn a degree, but never thought she could. Through our partnership with
@Walmart
, she is going to college for just $1 a day. Learn more:
4 out of 5 employees say they want better benefits over a pay raise. Decrease employee turnover and excel in a competitive market for quality talent with Guild.
Celebrating the first class of Live Better U college graduates. We're proud to partner with
@Walmart
to offer all associates the opportunity to go back to school debt-free.
At Guild, doing good is synonymous with doing well as a business. It’s one of the reasons
@BLab
recently honored Guild as a Best For The World 2018 company. Read more here:
We are honored to share that Guild has made the
@Forbes
Cloud 100 list again! Read more from our CEO & Co-founder
@RachelRCarlson
alongside other
@Cloud100
&
@PledgeOne
companies about Guild's value-driven business.
For the second year in a row, Guild made it onto CNBC’s Disruptor 50 list!
We’re honored to be listed alongside other innovative companies that are tackling big societal challenges.
How can innovative employers think strategically about their talent development investments?
Read about three trends that can play a big role in shaping the recovery of businesses and individuals by
@Amdulin
in
@Forbes
Today's academic partner spotlight is
@UCF
. The University of Central Florida is one of the largest universities in the US & has been ranked a top 20 most innovative university by
@USnews
. With online, in-person, and hybrid courses, students can learn however they'd like. 🎒
As an organization committed to social change, our community at Guild has worked together this week to advance our commitment to dismantling racial injustice.
To support the career mobility of working parents it’s important we help them care for their families.
That’s why Guild created the Beehive, our onsite early childhood education center.
Proud to unlock opportunity for our employees and their little ones.
Today's a huge day for Guild Education - we're delighted to welcome
@josh_scott
as our new President. Josh has been on team Guild since the beginning, first as a friend and advisor, and then as board member. As
@mcgd
and and our bo…
Our partner
@PaulQuinn1872
is working to combat intergenerational poverty & remove the pressure on first-generation college students to financially lift up their entire families with an exciting new admissions policy.
Get to know the students we serve. 72% of students had not earned a degree beyond high school before enrolling in their employer education benefit and 39% had not completed any schooling beyond high school.
Watch our Co-founder and CEO
@RachelRCarlson
on
@CNBC
's
@SquawkAlley
talking about how education and upskilling initiatives can help America's workforce be resilient in the future of work.
.
@chipotletweets
frontline employees who participated in Cultivate Education were 7.5x more likely to move into a management role than those who weren't engaged with the education benefit program.
Read more:
What's next for
#highered
? Hear from Guild Senior Strategist
@MichaelBHorn
about the effects of
#COVID19
on the higher education landscape and what learnings may come out of the last year in
@MarketScale
's EdTech Today.