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The Importance of the Employer-School Partnership
In the ever-evolving landscape of education and workforce development, the importance of cultivating relationships between employers and schools cannot be overstated. These partnerships are key, not only to employers wanting to remain competitive in the world of...
Champion for CTE Impact Award Granted to CEO Patrick Mineer
We are proud to announce that Patrick Mineer, CEO of Golden Path Solutions, has been granted the Champion for CTE Impact Award. This award recognizes outstanding individuals who have leveraged their influence to expand, improve, and promote Career & Technical...
Connecting Across States to Improve Work-Based Learning for Employers and Schools
By Derek Grahn One of my favorite parts of working at Golden Path Solutions is that I get to work with a wide variety of people. One day, it is working with a school in North Dakota that is in the process of growing its work-based learning program; the next, it is...
Webinar for Detroit Lakes – Lake Park Audubon Employers
ATTENTION DETROIT LAKES / LAKE PARK AUDUBON EMPLOYERS : Your best future employees are charting their career path NOW…you just need a way to connect with them. Watch a recording of our free webinar held in July to learn how you can use Compass (an innovative workforce...
How To Maximize Your Current Workforce Development Strategies with Compass
Almost every organization is currently participating in some form of traditional workforce development strategies. Odds are, they include things like sharing job postings on sites like Indeed or reaching out to candidates via LinkedIn, offering internships or other...
Skilled Trades – How Employers Can Fight the Labor Shortage
It’s no secret that the job market is struggling to fill roles across many industries, but especially skilled trades like construction, manufacturing, and more. While there are a variety of factors that feed into this problem, two basic issues are having a noticeable...
Work-based Learning is a Win-Win for Expanse Electrical and Williston Student
August Zugg is a Williston, North Dakota high school student who wanted to get hands-on experience in the electrical field. With the help of the new Work-based Learning module available across North Dakota (powered by our solution, Compass, and RUReady.ND.gov from...
Entrepreneurship in Career Exploration
By Derek Grahn In the world of student career exploration, which generally focuses on paths toward employment at existing organizations, where does entrepreneurship fit in? Plenty of students feel inclined toward entrepreneurship, and it’s important to nurture that...
New Features in Compass – Spring 2023
We are always working to make Compass more functional and easier to use for all of our audiences, so we want to share some of the highlights of what we’ve released since the beginning of the year. Some of our major feature work has been on things like the work-based...
Best Workforce Development Activities for the Summer
Winter is finally over (on paper, at least), which means summer is just around the corner. Even though school will be out, many students use the summer months to build skills, gain work experience, and explore interests that could develop into future educational and...
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
8/25/23 Update - Thank you to Job Service North Dakota for hosting a highly educational and impactful webinar for employers in July: Work-Based Learning as a Talent Pipeline. We were proud to partner with your organization, along with North Dakota Career and Technical...