UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX | WORKFORCE SOLUTIONS GROUP
Get skills-based talent development solutions
Customize learning pathways or choose ready-made, skills-based programs that address your talent development challenges. These solutions can help your organization address skills gaps and adapt to future needs while supporting training, retention and recruitment efforts.
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Solutions aligned to your talent development efforts
Effective learning and development programs are mission critical. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2020 The Future of Jobs report states that 50% of employees will need new skills by 2025, partially due to automation*.
While tech innovation can help improve efficiency, build new business models and create a competitive advantage, it can also be costly and ineffective.** Your training team needs tailored learning pathways to address long-term skills growth and quick adaption to changing business needs. University of Phoenix Workforce Solutions Group (WSG) will work with you to create options to address these needs.
Our capability building blocks help create the efficiencies and the edge you want. They include:
- Training learning pathways
- Degree credit pathways for eligible apprentices
- Skills-based organizational and talent development solutions
- UOPX degree and certificate programs
- Non-credit, self-led professional development skills center
- Tuition savings benefits to make it easier for employees
- *World Economic Forum; The Future of Jobs Report online; Oct. 2020
- **Orton-Jones, C.; 7 Essential Strategies for Adopting New Technologies online; Oct. 2023
Flexible solutions that support your employee training
Our WSG professionals can work closely with you or not – it’s all up to you. Go it alone by having employees choose online courses. Or you can request that we tailor courses from our skills library to fit your objectives, or work with WSG to build learning pathways unique to your organization.
Ready. Set. Learn.
Your employees can start learning new skills today with our selection of ready-made courses that are 100% online.
Tailored learning
Quickly launch an employee training program by selecting career-relevant skills from our skills library that align with your business objectives.
Built for you
Build learning as unique as your business. Let us help you create custom skill-building training with custom content and assessments.
Continual progress
Plan to excel by building skills with technology-driven tools, services and resources designed to support the health of your organization.
Let’s talk about how the University of Phoenix Workforce Solutions Group helps you support your organization’s training programs. Choose from custom-built skills-based pathways to a library of options to put new skills to work for you fast. If you’re a prospective student, a current student or an alumni, please contact us here.
Frequently asked questions
To ensure students learn the skills employers like you want, University of Phoenix collaborated with Lightcast, a labor market data company to identify in-demand skills. Then we aligned our curriculum to these skills to help students learn them one course at a time.
Your Human Resources department and training managers can identify the employee skills needed for your organization and select the individual courses, degrees and learning pathways to target them. Or we can work with you to build the specific learning pathways to support your employee development efforts.
Learning and development can play a strategic business role. Initiatives designed to create skills-based organizations, internal talent marketplaces and, an upskilling culture and skills-focused job promotion can help you address challenges with talent development, upskilling and reskilling, recruitment and retention.
It’s typically more efficient and cheaper to build talent internally than to buy it externally through recruitment and hiring. As the Harvard Business Review recommends, “Treat skilling as a business investment, not an expense.”
*Goel, Puckett, et.al.; 6 Strategies to Upskill Your Workforce; Harvard Business Review, 4/25/2022; online: http://hbr.org/2022/04/6-strategies-to-upskill-your-workforce
Some skills and knowledge gaps may appear obvious. But when you take into consideration all organizational priorities and market conditions, you may get a more comprehensive picture.
The University of Phoenix Workforce Solutions Group brings you a portfolio of tools and services that can help your organization identify current deficiencies and project future skills gaps. Our learning and development resources can empower your Human Resources training team to customize specific ways to address them.
In addition to ensuring the capabilities exist to help the company succeed, workers view career development and upskilling opportunities as a benefit. This can help support talent recruitment and retention efforts.
According to the 2023 Gallup study**, The American Upskilling Study: Empowering Workers for the Jobs of Tomorrow, “65% of workers believe employer-provided upskilling is very important when evaluating a potential new job.”
**2023, The American Upskilling Study: Empowering Workers for the Jobs of Tomorrow; Gallup; http://www.gallup.com/analytics/354374/the-american-upskilling-study.aspx%20)
Learning pathways describe a targeted, managed approach to skills development. A learning pathway addresses knowledge gaps in current roles or can help with worker retention by helping staff learn new capabilities to help them step into a new role.
Integrating the University of Phoenix skills-based learning pathways into your learning and development efforts could help address current skills gaps and plan to fill future organizational needs.
Our WSG professionals seek to understand your organization’s unique skills needs and challenges to help create solutions specific to you.
We are as collaborative as you want us to be. You can offer workers tuition savings benefits for our degree or certificate programs, choose to have us help you build a specific training program from our Skills Library or we can customize talent development solutions to address progressive development.