What is New Collar?
Inspired and popularized by former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, the new collar workforce has emerged as one of the most powerful labor market movements due to the era of AI and the digitization of everything. With a renewed focus on skills-based training and hiring, traditional blue collar and white collar jobs are no longer the only options available to workers in fields like technology, healthcare, renewable energy and advanced manufacturing.
New collar jobs may not require an advanced degree for entry, but rather, short-term training, stackable industry credentials, and work-based learning like apprenticeships. Many new collar jobs have emerged in professions such as application development, cybersecurity, networking, data science, cloud computing, robotics, digital marketing, human resources and sales.
One Mission. Infinite possibilities.
Our mission is to help innovate at speed and scale on skills and workforce transformation. Our goal is to create opportunity and access for everyone to participate in quality education and jobs with a focus on three core strategic pillars.
Accessible Training
We help industry and higher education innovate on new ways to create opportunity and access for everyone to participate in quality new collar training and jobs.
Employability Outcomes
We believe in co-creating talent and workforce solutions enhance employability outcomes and access to quality jobs for early career and experienced workforce.
Social Impact
We create sustainable workforce and education strategies, programs and initiatives that create belonging with diversity, accessibility, and inclusion at the core to our mission.