Acquisition will enhance PowerToFly's
professional skill development offerings for 20 million-plus
diverse candidate profiles and partner companies.
NEW
YORK, May 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- PowerToFly,
the pioneering leader in talent management for diverse
professionals since 2014, announced the strategic acquisition of
Skillcrush, the education platform providing technical upskilling
for underrepresented professionals. The combination of Skillcrush
and PowerToFly gives talent and companies even more essential tools
to build the workforce of the future.
The offering rounds out PowerToFly's holistic solution suite
with employer branding, AI-led hiring solutions across 20 million
diverse profiles, and technical and non-technical upskilling. We
combine AI-led candidate matching across 20 million diverse
profiles with hundreds of virtual and live events PowerToFly hosts
annually for real-time connections. Whether professionals are
missing a hard or soft skill in order to qualify for a job, or a
hiring manager identifies a skill missing on their teams - they can
now solve that on PowerToFly.
"Training diverse talent for the jobs of the future is a
frequent conversation we have with companies and job candidates,"
said PowerToFly CEO Milena Berry "With Skillcrush, we're making
accessible, inclusive technical training a reality for millions who
now have a direct path to hiring managers on PowerToFly once they
complete their training."
Founded by Adda Birnir, Skillcrush has trained more than
twenty-thousand students through mentor-led flexible courses in AI,
coding, design, and related fields. Over forty-nine percent of
Skillcrush students identify as BIPOC and eighty percent as women.
With career coaching and programming tailored to traditionally
underrepresented groups, Skillcrush's Get Hired program has placed
students in technical roles at a wide range of companies,
government agencies, and institutions of higher ed, with an average
salary increase of over $30,000.
"As I watched PowerToFly grow to enable hires across hundreds
of companies, it was obvious how the impactful training and
coaching we do at Skillcrush will enhance PowerToFly's professional
skill development offerings for its over 20 million diverse
candidate profiles. I am particularly excited to bring Skillcrush
to PowerToFly's partner companies," said Adda Birnir,
founder and CEO of Skillcrush.
Supporting Growth Goals for Diverse Talent and
Companies:
Homogenous teams and lack of training are a double threat
to innovation at workplaces. Today's talent and hiring
managers are requiring the combination of AI-led recruiting with
skills matching and live events that PowerToFly and Skillcrush will
provide together. Beginning May 2024,
PowerToFly and Skillcrush enable:
- Inclusive AI-led Talent Matching Across 20 Million Diverse
Profiles through PowerPro: Recruiters leverage transparent
AI Matching software, to instantly generate a tailored list of
candidates whose resumes closely match their open roles.
PowerPro includes pre-ATS talent analytics to manage candidate
pipelines through recruiting stages, messaging and outreach.
- Skills Training for Workforce Development and Employee
Retention: With net positive job growth, along with nearly
a quarter of jobs changing in the next five years according to the
World Economic Forum, PowerToFly and Skillcrush will be able to
deliver workforce development for internal mobility.
- Hundreds of Live and Virtual Hiring Events To Center the
Human Experience First: As PowerToFly and Skillcrush focus
on outcomes for underrepresented talent, real-time interactions are
essential for insuring the innovations fostered by AI-led talent
matching are responsible, effective, and beneficial to both talent
and companies. A list of upcoming PowerToFly events, including
summits that have drawn over ten thousand attendees, can be found
here.
- Robust DEI, Leadership Development, and Hard
Skills Training: PowerToFly already delivers expert-led DEI and
leadership upskilling via live and on-demand courses. Try
PowerUp for free. With Skillcrush our upskilling capabilities
extend to generative AI, frontend, backend, digital marketing, and
design skills courses to fill skills gaps for the talent community
and employees.
For more information, request a demo here or directly book
a 10-minute meeting with a member of our team.
About PowerToFly
PowerToFly was founded by Milena Berry and Katharine Zaleski in 2014 to fast-track economic
equity by upskilling and connecting underrepresented talent to
roles in highly visible sectors. The company is focused on
empowering underrepresented talent across all races, ages,
ethnicities, sexual orientations, abilities, veteran statuses, and
gender identities. Allies are welcomed.
A full list of companies on the PowerToFly platform can be found
here.
About Skillcrush
Founded in 2012 by Adda Birnir, Skillcrush has trained over
twenty thousand students through a community of students, alumni,
and instructors. With a focus on women, people of color, LGBTQ+
people, people with disabilities, people without college degrees,
parents, caretakers, and returning talent, Skillcrush has tailored
hundreds of hours of successful programming towards
underrepresented talent.
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