For colleges, workforce boards and employers
AI training that closes the gap employers are hiring for
NextChapter, the leading job transition platform, measures which AI skills the people you serve are missing and builds the short courses that close the gap. We work with the career services, workforce and training budgets you already have.
Why now
- 85% of 2026 seniors use AI, but only 28% say their program built it in, and fewer than 30% of graduates had substantial AI training (Handshake, NACE and ZipRecruiter surveys, via the White Collar Employment Report).
- Postings that ask for AI skills advertise more pay in nearly every function we can measure, even comparing like with like. The numbers, by function.
- Public retraining is small next to the need: the federal Dislocated Worker program served about 187,000 people in its latest year, and about one in five received training (White Collar Employment Report).
What we build
- Gap analysis
- For your alumni, participants or employees: which AI skills the jobs in their functions ask for and which are missing from their profiles. Counts only, never names, once at least 10 people are in view.
- Curriculum
- Short courses mapped to the 24 AI skills employers actually name in postings, in three tracks: using AI in your work, leading AI adoption, and building AI systems. Each has outcomes, practice work and an assessment.
- Proof that travels
- Work samples that go on a résumé and count as evidence in a member’s profile, so a certificate is backed by something a hiring manager can read.
- Job search alongside
- Learners get the same job-matching, coaching and employer introductions as everyone on the platform, so training leads somewhere.
Who it is for, and what pays for it
Colleges
Continuing-ed, executive education and alumni career services. A certificate for mid-career alumni and local employers that your faculty can teach or co-brand, built to your catalog and credit rules.
Typical funding: Career services and alumni budgets, continuing-ed revenue, Workforce Pell for state-approved programs.
Workforce boards and American Job Centers
Training for dislocated professionals and managers, the group formula programs rarely reach, with participant-level outcomes you can report.
Typical funding: WIOA career and training services once a program is on the state’s eligible training list, dislocated worker grants, state and DOL AI-workforce grants.
Employers
AI skills for people leaving the company, through outplacement, and for current employees, through Learning.
Typical funding: Outplacement and learning-and-development budgets.
Grants are awarded to the colleges, boards and states that apply, and approval rules differ by state.
How we work together
Course development
You commission a course or certificate. We design and build it to your standards, and you own the program and run it.
Grant partner
You apply for a grant or contract that names AI reskilling for white-collar workers. We are the named training and reemployment provider inside your application, as a subrecipient or vendor.
Cohort license
We run the platform and the courses for a cohort of your people, for the length of the program.
Start with the gap
Tell us who you serve. We will show what the jobs in their functions ask for in AI skills and sketch the course that fits your program, your funding and your timeline.