Refine your soft skills and be the person employers want to hire or promote!

FINDING WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR JOB OPPORTUNITIES CAN BE DIFFICULT

Don’t waste time and money on complicated skills training programs that aren’t valued by employers!

Our trainings focus on the skills that are essential for success in school, work, and life!
  • Our development team brought New World of Work, a 21st century skills/soft skills program, to scale across 116 California Community Colleges
  • Over 400 workforce development organizations, non-profits, adult education programs, and community partners have used our skills training
  • 87% of learners feel essential skills training will be useful in their future careers
  • 87% of employers are more likely to offer work opportunities to a job seeker who has completed the program we developed
  • Over 44,000 of our open access digital badges were earned during the shift to online learning in the pandemic

HOW IT WORKS

1) FREE ACCESS

Job seekers, students, educators, trainers, and employers can preview our ten skills modules and sign-up for free access to the entire training series.

2) INSTRUCTOR GUIDES

Educators, trainers, and employers can reach out to the ESP team for pricing to access the full instructor guides, including all multiple choice and discussion questions, to go along with the modules.

3) FACILITATOR TRAINING

 Get trained on how to add skills curriculum, assessments, and badging into your existing programs and courses through our team’s partnership with the Center for Economic Mobility at WestEd.

THE TEN ESSENTIAL SKILLS

Effective Communicator

Productive Collaborator

Self-Aware

Adaptable

Resilient

Empathetic

Culturally Responsive

Problem Solver

Innovative

Digitally Literate

Refine your essential skills and be the person employers want to hire or promote!

NEWS

The core team that developed the New World of Work (NWoW) program updated all of the content to launch the Essential Skills Program, and you can access all the previous New World of Work videos here.

Our leadership team members are part of the Center for Economic Mobility at WestEd, allowing us to provide you with the most up to date data, technology, and network of skills experts!