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Patrick Recognized as NDCA Friend of Counseling
Patrick Recognized as NDCA Friend of CounselingPatrick was honored to receive the "Friend of Counseling" at the North Dakota School Counseling Association's Annual Conference for the work we're doing at Golden Path. The award recognizes "an individual or group,...
Work-Based Learning Helps Build Your Workforce
One of the best ways to proactively grow your future workforce is to provide high school students with hands-on opportunities to learn more about your company and careers. Known as work-based learning (WBL) experiences, these opportunities let you interact with...
Compass Mobile App Now Available for Students
The new Compass mobile app is now available for students for Apple and Android. Designed to work in tandem with the web version of Compass, the app makes it easier for students to find new opportunities, keep their profiles updated, and receive notifications of the...
Expanding Work-Based Learning Experiences
The year is off to a great start and we’re looking forward to all the ways Golden Path and Compass can support you. One of the most exciting offerings through Compass is work-based learning experiences (WBL). These career-focused opportunities include everything from...
New for Employers at Golden Path in 2024
2024 will be an exciting year for our employer partners at Golden Path Solutions. As we expand the reach of Compass and increase our features and offerings, it all translates into more opportunities and access for employers like you. We’re thankful for your...
Golden Path Solutions Newsletter – January 2024
Welcome to 2024! We hope you enjoyed a restful holiday season with your friends and family, with some time to reflect on the past year’s successes and what’s next in 2024. It’s always exciting thinking about the new year and if 2023 is any indication of what’s to...
Sponsorships Build Future Workforce While Helping with High Cost of Tuition
Recent full-tuition scholarship offerings by the state of Minnesota, North Dakota State University in Fargo, and Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, are recognizing the high cost of higher education and taking significant steps toward making it more affordable for...
Golden Path Solutions Newsletter – December 2023
Happy holidays from the team at Golden Path Solutions! We’re excited to share our recent involvement at events around the region, including career fairs and teacher trainings. We’re also highlighting local manufacturers in a new website partnership and are eager to...
Seven Tips for Employers as You Prepare for a Career Fair
Career fairs are an excellent opportunity for you to share your company story and job openings, but they also require time and effort, and you may be missing chances to connect with students in meaningful ways. Thankfully, with the right preparation, you can foster...
Compass Makes it Easier for Schools to Manage Work-Based Learning
As we do more work with schools on their processes around work-based learning, one thing we hear consistently is that managing all the paperwork and signatures to get a student and an employer connected can be a pain. Some schools have created online forms to manage...
North Dakota Trade Office & GPS Webinar
We're excited to partner with the North Dakota Trade Office to help educate their member employers about how Golden Path can help them develop future workforce to help scale and grow their businesses. You can register for the webinar here, and you can learn more...
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...