Last Friday the National Science Foundation announced jobZology’s PathwayU as the Career Compass Challenge Part 2 winner, granting jobZology a $75,000 prize.
NSF’s Career Compass Challenge launched in November 2018 as part of an effort to modernize the American workforce. This Challenge addressed not only the changing nature of work but also the pace of change to the types of work needed to carry out essential missions for American people and create the Workforce for the 21st Century. The first part of the competition focused on collecting white paper concepts of possible solutions, and the second part encouraged submitters to leverage and build upon winning concepts to develop a working prototype. [1]
The Career Compass Challenge judges, representing multiple federal government agencies, selected PathwayU because it best addressed the changing nature of work. PathwayU enables individuals to both identify optimal career paths and focus their reskilling efforts. Specifically, the platform: