Workforce Realigned Podcast, Episode 8: How Merit America is Using Google Career Certificates to Create a More Equitable & Inclusive Job Market
Connor Diemand-Yauman and Rebecca Taber Staehelin
From the Social Finance Institute
The Social Finance Institute, Workforce & Economic Mobility, Education, Career Impact Bonds, Workforce Realigned
Key Takeaway
“One of the last things we want to do is be a train and pray organization where you train, you give them the skills, and then you pray they get a job. So everything we’ve built at Merit America is designed backwards from what employers need … Success is not a graduation. It’s wonderful. It’s a nice milestone, but the success is when they get that new job.”—Rebecca Taber Staehelin, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Merit America
In this Workforce Realigned podcast episode, Connor Diemand-Yauman and Rebecca Taber Staehelin, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of Merit America, accompany Social Finance Managing Director Michael Grossman for a discussion on how the program, funded by the $100 million Google Career Certificates Fund, is helping people from underserved communities access well-paying, high-growth jobs.
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