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At Global Path Consulting Services, we’re focused on one mission: helping organizations build the talent and skills needed for an AI‑driven economy. The signing of Executive Order 14365 on December 11, 2025, reinforced what many leaders are already experiencing — AI literacy is becoming a foundational workforce skill. With the Department of Labor’s AI Literacy Framework and new apprenticeship initiatives now in motion, the expectations for both employers and education partners are shifting quickly. Our work sits at the intersection of these changes. We support businesses, schools, and workforce partners in understanding how AI fits into real work, real classrooms, and real talent pipelines. Our AI literacy curriculum is designed to bridge industry and education, strengthen local workforce readiness, and create practical #pathways that align with evolving federal and state priorities. As AI continues to reshape the workforce, organizations that invest in clarity, skills, and collaboration will be best positioned to adapt and lead. GPCS is committed to helping partners move from awareness to action — with solutions that are accessible, practical, and aligned to the needs of today’s learners and workers. If your county or local education partners are exploring ways to build AI‑ready talent, we welcome the opportunity to connect and share insights. #ai #ailiteracy #technology #workforce #futureofwork #BOE

I took a day away from work to attend the OneEast Workforce Development Summit, and it was time well spent. Hearing from leaders across Alabama, including the Secretary of Workforce, the CEO of QuantHub, university and community college presidents, and industry partners like Honda and General Dynamics, made one thing clear. There is real momentum right now around how we prepare students for what comes next. There was a thoughtful and consistent focus on AI throughout the day. Not just how to use it, but how to use it responsibly. The conversations centered on understanding the ethics, overcoming the fear that it will replace us, and recognizing that AI is most powerful when humans remain actively in the loop. That perspective carried across K-12, higher education, and industry. There is a shared commitment to helping students build skills, explore pathways, and connect learning to real opportunities. There’s a lot of energy in Alabama right now, and a real opportunity to better connect how we educate students with how they build careers. #WorkforceDevelopment #Education #AI #CareerReadiness #EconomicDevelopment #Alabama

Excited to see the growing national conversation about preparing young people for the future of work in the age of AI. The new report from the EdSAFE AI Alliance, "Powering Workforce Resilience in the Age of AI," highlights an important reality: entry-level job opportunities are shrinking, with youth unemployment reaching 10.8% in 2025 as automation transforms traditional career pathways. This moment calls for bold investment in the next generation. At City Year, we see every day how national service creates powerful opportunities for young people to build the “durable skills” that matter most in today’s workforce—teamwork, leadership, communication, and problem-solving. These human-centered skills are increasingly essential in an AI-driven economy. Through service as Student Success Coaches, young adults gain meaningful experience supporting students while developing the professional skills and confidence that open doors to future careers. If we want a resilient workforce, we must continue to create pathways where young people can learn, grow, and lead. #WorkforceDevelopment #FutureOfWork #AmeriCorps #CityYear #YouthOpportunity #AI

"How do I position myself around #AI in a tough labor market?" If you're a student, recent grad, or career changer trying to break through in a market flooded with AI-generated resumes and shrinking entry-level hiring — this one's for you. Tuesday, May 6th. 10AM Pacific. Link in comments. That's the #1 question students ask Dr. Sandeep Krishnamurthy. Dr. Krishnamurthy runs one of the largest business schools in America. 5,000+ students at Cal Poly Pomona College of Business Administration, Singelyn Graduate School of Business, AACSB-accredited, named to the LA Business Journal's "LA500" most influential people list in 2025. Before that, he spent two decades at University of Washington Bothell where he built the School of Business from a program into a standalone school with deep partnerships across Microsoft, T-Mobile, and Avanade. He's joining us on Wed May 6th for the final session of our Provn Talent Scout series. Dr. Krishnamurthy has a concept he calls "Recombinant AI Fluency." The idea is simple but powerful — the most valuable skill in today's market isn't mastering one AI tool. It's the ability to weave together outputs from multiple AI systems into a single workflow that actually produces value. Not which tool you use. How you orchestrate across tools to solve real problems. He breaks it into four competencies: systems thinking, cross-platform prompt engineering, lightweight automation skills, and an ethical framework for governing composite results. But here's how it connects to what we're building at Provn. Sandeep sees it every day across 5,000 students — your degree is a starting point, not a ceiling. The students getting hired are the ones who can demonstrate what they can do, not just recite what they learned. Challenge-based portfolios are replacing credentials as the proof employers actually trust. That's why we built the Provn challenge format the way we did. Build something real. Explain your process on camera. Show how you think, not just what you know. It's the same signal Sandeep is telling his students to build — just formalized into something employers can actually evaluate. Tuesday, May 6th. 10am Pacific. Link in comments. #AIFluency #hiring #talentdraft #Provn #CalPolyPomona #recombinantAI #careers #students #AIskills

While many of you are at ASU+GSV Summit thinking about the next horizon in education, President and Executive Director Katy Knight has a message on the front page of Work Shift today: don’t count out computer science just yet. There’s no shortage of headlines declaring the CS major “dead,” fueled by market reactions, hot takes, and people behind podiums. And quite honestly, we couldn’t disagree more. If anything, the age of AI makes computational thinking more, not less, essential. AI is inextricably linked to computer science, and its fundamentals will continue to underpin the next wave of jobs, especially the most impactful and in-demand roles, like engineers integrating AI into systems across every industry. Just as literacy became the baseline for participation in a modern economy, computational fluency is becoming the foundation for thriving in a digital one. 🔗 Read the article. https://lnkd.in/en6TQE7h

I walked past this earlier today and it stayed with me longer than I expected. “Stop hiring humans.” It’s obviously designed to provoke, and it does. But there is a version of this that is quietly becoming true. Certain tasks, particularly those that are repetitive or process-driven, are already being absorbed by AI, and that shift feels gradual rather than dramatic. What I find more interesting is what this starts to reveal about education. If parts of the workforce are evolving in this way, then success is going to be less about what someone knows in isolation, and more about how they think, how they relate to others, and how they navigate situations that don’t have clear answers. The qualities that are hardest to automate, judgement, empathy, communication, leadership, are also the ones that have always been the hardest to measure. And yet, much of the system is still built around standardisation and output. Knowledge acquisition, exam performance, comparability. Those things matter, but they feel increasingly incomplete when you look at where things are heading. At the same time, we are seeing a continued move towards homogenisation. The introduction of VAT on school fees and the resulting pressure on independent schools, in some cases leading to closures, is only accelerating that. Fewer options, more uniformity, and less room for different approaches to education. That creates a real tension. Because if the world is becoming more complex and less predictable, narrowing the range of educational pathways feels misaligned with what young people will actually need. For parents, this changes the conversation. It becomes less about choosing the “right” school in a traditional sense, and more about thinking carefully about how their child is being educated, what kind of environment they are in, and whether it is genuinely preparing them for what comes next. In that context, the “what” becomes more accessible to everyone, and the “how” becomes the differentiator. I suspect we will see more families having to make braver, more deliberate choices. Questioning the default path, supplementing where needed, and in some cases stepping outside it altogether. This feels less like a future shift and more like something that is already underway. #education #futureofwork #ai

Tomorrow looks a little like this: Morning: facilitating part of the Central Arizona Regional Workforce Forum on how AI is reshaping talent, hiring, and what Arizona actually needs next. Afternoon: joining a panel on The New Rules of Talent Development with our friends at Metrix Learning and Workforce180 (SkillUpAmerica). Wednesday: sitting with an incredible group through CAEL's "Connecting the Dots" Convening talking about how we actually make education-to-work… work. First… real gratitude. To the teams at Arizona@Work, City of Phoenix, and Maricopa County for creating space for honest, regional conversations. To Metrix Learning and WORKFORCE180 for pushing the national conversation forward on where talent development is headed. And to CAEL for consistently bringing together the people willing to do the harder, system-level work. These rooms matter. Because if I’m being honest… We don’t have a talent problem. We have a systems problem. Across all of these conversations, I keep hearing the same thing: Employers are changing faster than education. Education is trying to respond to signals that aren’t always clear. And students? They’re navigating a system that still assumes time = readiness. Meanwhile, AI just hit fast forward. So the real question isn’t “Are we preparing people for jobs?” It’s: Are we redesigning systems fast enough to keep people from getting locked out? Because the old model was already shaky. AI didn’t break it… it exposed it. What gives me hope in these spaces isn’t just the problems. It’s the shift toward: Skills as currency, not just credentials Real alignment between employers and educators, not performative partnerships Ecosystems that actually connect instead of handing students a map and wishing them luck. This week feels like a moment where a lot of smart people are asking better questions. Now we just have to be bold enough to do something different with the answers. If you’re in any of these rooms, come say hi. If you’re not… you probably should be. I’ll drop links in the comments.

Already more than 40 schools and education institutions are now using RightWay to support student academic and career planning globally. From international high schools to leading educators and principals, we’re seeing a growing shift: AI is no longer just a productivity tool. It is becoming the infrastructure layer for long-term student guidance and decision making. RightWay helps schools provide: • Personalized academic planning • Long-horizon student memory & progress tracking • Data-driven university and career guidance • Scalable counselor support for growing student populations We’re grateful to the school leaders, counselors, and partners who believe in this vision. The future of education is not just information. It’s continuity, personalization, and intelligent guidance at scale. #AI #EdTech #Education #AcademicPlanning #CareerPlanning #InternationalEducation #AIForEducation #StudentSuccess #FutureOfEducation #RightWayAI