Move cohorts into durable trades careers.
Moving a cohort into the trades well takes more than a partnership announcement. Here's what to confirm before you enroll anyone, and what's actually available to your program today.
Before you commit a cohort
Five things worth confirming before enrollment starts.
A trade with strong national numbers can still be saturated in your specific region. Check local demand data before you build a cohort's expectations around a trade that isn't actually hiring nearby.
See the Demand Index →WIOA, Perkins, and state workforce funds all have different eligibility rules by population, income, and program type. Confirm eligibility before enrollment, not after a cohort has already started and funding falls through.
A program tour is not a hiring commitment. Before you enroll a cohort, get specific commitments from employer partners about openings, timeline, and starting pay — not just goodwill.
Completion rate isn't the metric that matters to funders, employers, or the learners themselves. Set up a way to track who's actually working in the trade — and still there — 6 and 12 months out, before the program starts.
Licensing and code requirements change. Confirm your instructors are teaching to the current standard in your state, not a curriculum that's a few code cycles behind.
Find training & funding →What plugs into your program
What's live today vs. what's still coming — no overselling roadmap items as shipped.
White-labelable matcher and evaluator
Coming soonA version of our trade-matching and evaluator tools branded for your program, so learners get a personalized on-ramp under your institution's name rather than a generic one.
Certification tracker
Coming soonTrack a cohort's licenses, CEUs, and renewal dates in one place — built for program staff who currently manage this in spreadsheets across dozens of learners.
Local demand data, today
Live nowThe Demand Index is live now and doesn't require any integration — use it directly to check regional demand before you finalize which trades a cohort will train into.
Funded-program discovery, today
Live nowThe training and funding directory is live now — a real starting point for matching learners to programs that already accept the funding sources your population qualifies for.
What you can do here
From the day-to-day to the once-in-a-lifetime.
White-labelable version of our matcher and evaluator for your learners.
Coming soonTrack a cohort's licenses, CEUs and renewals in one place.
Coming soonCheck local demand and find funded programs before you build a cohort's curriculum around a trade that isn't hiring nearby.