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Ladders put a price on escaping the job-search queue
A $100K salary filter made Ladders a specialist. A team that fills out applications for you reveals what it now sells: fewer wasted evenings.
Geographic Solutions makes the unemployment office a place to find work
The Florida software company connects benefit claims, job searches, and career services. Its story reveals both the promise and the price of putting public employment systems under one digital roof.
Symplicity and the Trouble With the Second Login
A first job starts long before the application. Symplicity sells colleges the software for that untidy journey - and employers a way to meet the students making it.
The Career Center Was Full of Answers. uConnect Found the Students Were Somewhere Else.
A nearly empty recruiting event exposed a problem hiding in plain sight: colleges had career resources, but students could not find them. uConnect built the distribution layer - and made engagement the product.
Careerflow Turned 300 Rejections Into a Job-Search Operating System
The founders began by fixing resumes one person at a time. Then they built software for the mess around the application - and learned that the most useful AI career product may be the one that remembers where you applied.
Goodwill Industries International
Goodwill Industries International is the umbrella organization for a North American network of about 150 autonomous, community-based Goodwill nonprofits. Founded in Boston in 1902 by Methodist minister Edgar J. Helms, it runs the classic model of collecting donated clothing and household goods, reselling them through thrift stores and, increasingly, online, and using the proceeds to fund free job training, career services, and support programs. The parent body sets brand standards, coordinates national partnerships, and runs shared initiatives such as the online marketplace GoodwillFinds and the Goodwill Digital Career Accelerator, while local members deliver services on the ground.
Southern New Hampshire University
Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is a private, nonprofit, regionally accredited university based in Manchester/Hooksett, New Hampshire. Founded in 1932 as a small accounting school, it reinvented itself under president Paul LeBlanc into the largest nonprofit provider of online higher education in the United States, serving more than 200,000 learners through over 200 degree and certificate programs while keeping a roughly 3,000-student traditional campus.
Strayer University
Strayer University is an accredited, primarily online institution founded in 1892 to prepare working adults for careers in business and the professions. Owned by Nasdaq-listed Strategic Education, Inc. (STRA), Strayer offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, certificates, and the Jack Welch Management Institute online EMBA, serving tens of thousands of students across roughly 35 campuses and a large online program.