“It's an employee market—employees are looking for something different from employers,” Catherine Ward, managing director of the nonprofit Jobs for the Future, told a panel this week at the SXSW EDU conference in Austin. “Half of U.S. workers right now—so that’s 100 million workers—believe that in the next five years they’re going to need some sort of new skill to advance in their career. And they’re looking for that learning to not just come from traditional education sources but also from their employer.” During the panel, representatives from Sam’s Club, JP Morgan Chase & Co., and the credentialing platform Degreed highlighted the trends they’re seeing in workplace learning.
