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5 Tips to Stay in Touch with Students Post-Career Fair
By Derek Grahn Spring time is always a crazy time for schools – students are preparing for state testing, thinking about summer, and trying to pack in activities once the snow melts. In addition, this is also the time that many students (especially seniors) begin to...
Tips for Attracting and Retaining Talent
Workforce development is top of mind these days, with many different facets to how employers attract, develop, and retain their best employees. In today’s world, a successful organization needs to be addressing each of these areas. How do you attract talented...
Improve Your Talent Pipeline Through Connections & Community
As an employer, how many times have you found a great employee, partnership, or opportunity through your network? With Valentine’s Day and Giving Hearts Day just behind us, we’ve been thinking a lot about the power of community and connections. We know that...
Why Career Exposure is So Important: Experience From a Former Student
By Logan Heger As a college freshman, I have had some time to look back on my time in high school. One of my favorite moments was my senior year obtaining a professional internship. The process to obtain this internship was full of roadblocks, today I would like to...
6 Tips to Write Better Job Descriptions for Gen Z
Attention employers: going forward, a successful and sustainable workforce development strategy is going to heavily rely on attracting Gen Z workers to your careers. Why? Because Gen Z has already begun entering the workforce, and will dominate early/new hires for the...
Thank You for a Great 2022
By Patrick Mineer Hello everyone! My name is Patrick Mineer, and I’m the CEO and Founder of Golden Path Solutions. As we head into a new year, I wanted to take a few moments and reflect with all of you on the last year of activity with Golden Path Solutions,...
Golden Path on the Professional Lunch with Ricot Aladin
If you haven't met Ricot Aladin yet, founder and host of the Professional Lunch from NDSU, you should! He's a passionate guy who covers a lot of ground with his wide variety of guests and topics. I was able to join Ricot and talk about Golden Path Solutions and the...
Our visit with podcaster Mike Seminary and Wayde Sick, Director of ND Career & Technical Education
I had the pleasure of spending time with podcaster Mike Seminary on his show "Mike Seminary and Friends," talking along with Wayde Sick, Director of North Dakota Career & Technical Education, about the work Golden Path and ND CTE are doing together to help...
Sharing Your Careers with High School Students: Thoughts from a Former Teacher
By Derek Grahn Good morning, afternoon, or evening everyone! Over the last few months, I’ve had the chance to visit with many different companies about the importance of finding ways to get their company and career paths within their organizations in front of...
Recap of our time at the ACTE CareerTech Vision 2022 Conference
By Patrick Mineer What a week! We’re just getting back from our first major conference outside of the North Dakota/Minnesota Region, the ACTE CareerTech Vision 2022 conference. This conference brings Career and Technical Education (CTE) professionals from...
National Apprenticeship Week 2022
Happy National Apprenticeship week! This week is all about celebrating and diving deeper into apprenticeships, a form of work-based learning & post-secondary education that provides an integral talent pipeline addressing some of our most pressing workforce...
In-Person Employer Workshops on using Compass & RUReady.ND.gov for Workforce Development
If you're an employer and you want to understand more about how Compass works and how it can help you connect with and develop your future workforce, we'll be holding a series of workshops in cities across the state to show you how! We'll get your account set up,...
Launch of the Compass/RUReady.ND.gov Integration!
After months of collaboration with North Dakota CTE and XAP (the maker of RUReady.ND.gov), making updates to Compass, and integrating with RUReady for ND schools, our new and improved platform is ready to go! This means that employers can now get in front of every...
The GPS Navigation Webinar Series
4/27/22 Update - Thank you to Wayde Sick from the North Dakota Department of Career & Technical Education and James Leiman with the ND Department of Commerce for joining our 4th installment of the GPS Navigation Series. This event focused on the work Golden Path...
Three Internships Available with Golden Path!
Golden Path Solutions is excited to announce three internships available to North Dakota higher-ed students. We are looking for one software development intern, and two marketing and communications interns, one focused on employer engagement and the other focused on...
Work-Based Learning Resource Available
We've put together a new Work-Based Learning white paper to help employers, schools, and students understand what work-based learning is, why it's beneficial for all parties, and how it can be leveraged to help everyone plan more effectively for the future. Employers...
Golden Path Solutions Announces a new Partnership with XAP & RUReady.ND.gov
We're excited to share news about our partnership with XAP, integrating Compass with their solution RUReady.ND.gov for students in North Dakota. We'll be working with XAP on new functionality around Work-Based Learning that will provide another way for employers to...
Longtime Career Option Revived in New Fields
The content below will be the subject of a free webinar on November 18th. Click here to register! Michael Roue enrolled at Lake Region State College with an interest in Information Technology (IT), but was unsure of his long-term career plan. Then, one day one of his...
Q&A with Patrick Mineer & Matt Chaussee
Q&A: Patrick Mineer & Matt Chaussee discuss partnering up and bringing CareerViewXR Experiences to Compass Golden Path Solutions has been dedicated to helping students connect to well-matched careers and employers by using their application Compass to assess a...
GPS featured at Emerging Prairie’s StartupBREW
We had a great time speaking during the first StartupBREW event of September! We had a chance to share an update on where we are at, what's happened since our last talk at Fargo's 1 Million Cups (the former name of the event) and also hear from our friend Matt...