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Align employee education to strategic outcomes

Turn plug-and-play education benefits into strategic talent pipelines that fuel your competitive edge.

Education and skilling solutions sound a lot alike these days, but the impact they drive varies drastically. Learn how to translate vendor promises into what they can actually deliver.
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What some education vendors say isn't always what they mean.

Here's how to spot the difference and ask the right questions to understand what your provider will actually deliver.

"We offer tuition assistance."

Translation: "We put the burden on your employees to obtain a letter of credit, cover overages, and if they go into debt, they should have made better decisions."

"We don't restrict programs to 'just a few partners'."

Translation: "We're a discount aggregator that leaves employees confused and overwhelmed with thousands of unvetted choices."

"We provide 1:1 coaching."

Translation: "We provide one time, 1:1 coaching with outsourced and uncertified 'career coaches' that we repurposed from supporting high school students — not working adults."

"We have robust analytics for your program."

Translation: "It's up to you to find out from employees how far they are in their programs, what skills they've learned, and what jobs they can move into."

"We have 16 career pathways."

Translation: "16 pathways just lead to 16 jobs, not the dozens of jobs where business teams need to hire people now."

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Guild delivers the value we promise. No translation required.

Why Guild's education and skilling solution delivers over other providers.

Best-in-class employee support

01

We guide employees to the right jobs with proactive employee marketing and 1:1 benefit guidance.

Built with agility — designed to scale

02

We partner with innovative institutions to rapidly incubate and develop high-need allied health and nursing programs rather than offer closest-fit solutions.

Fill internal talent pipelines

03

We proactively connect skills back to your most in-demand jobs at your healthcare organization.

Guild is an active partner with HR + Talent teams. We’ll help you develop a winning strategy to drive success for your people and your business.

See the difference an active – vs. passive – partnership can have on employee experience, policy design, internal mobility and strategic objectives.

Check out the chart below.

Trusted by innovative employers

With Guild, program administrators have the support to drive service and program impact.

Optimized internal talent pipeline

2.6x

On average, Guild learners are 2.6x more likely to change roles within their organizations compared to their colleagues who did not participate in the Guild benefit.1

Improved learner diversity

3.9x

Fully funded pre-licensure learners at one employer have 3.9x the Black and Hispanic representation compared to the employer's nursing population.2

Reduced turnover

3%

The estimated average impact of offering the Guild benefit in Healthcare is a 3 percentage point reduction in annual turnover at the company level.3

How OSF Uses Career Pathways to be a leading employer of choice in their community

Jacki Fugitt, VP Shared Services and Strategic Partnerships at OSF HealthCare, talks about how educational pathways specifically in Allied Health can create robust talent pipelines to support their mission to be an employer of choice.

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Footnotes

  1. All data points based on outcomes for one consumer products company 18-24 months after Guild launch.
  2. Guild Learning Marketplace data as of 01/01/2024
  3. Estimated from member vs. non-member annual separation rates as of 01/01/2024