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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...
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...
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...
Innovative Future Workforce Development Topics Discussed at 1 Million Cups Bismarck/ Mandan
It was fantastic getting the opportunity to be part of a 1 Million cups meeting in Bismarck in late March. It was great seeing a people in person at the Dakota Stage while observing social distancing, and a large group online. Fun to see the group continue to grow! I...
Demo Day April 29: A Great Hands-on Opportunity for Students Considering a Career in Construction
Golden Path Solutions is excited to support Demo Day, a great opportunity put on by the North Dakota Construction Leadership Council and hosted by General Equipment. So many times, students and young adults select a job or career without really understanding what the...
And the winner is……. Golden Path Solutions Participates as a Judge in the North Dakota DECA Collegiate Competition
If you want to see the strength and talents of our future workforce first hand, attend and judge a DECA collegiate competition! I had the opportunity to do just that as I participated as a judge in the collegiate competition held in Fargo, ND the last week of...
Golden Path Solutions Awarded a Loan from the North Dakota Innovation Technology Fund (LIFT).
Thank you to the Bank of North Dakota and the North Dakota Chamber of Commerce for awarding Golden Path a loan from the North Dakota Innovation Technology Fund (LIFT)! LIFT is an innovation loan fund supporting the advancement of technology...
Collaboration with Great Northwest Area Schools From Grant Approval
We’re excited to share that a grant application submitted for Golden Path Solutions Compass fees by the Great Northwest Area Career and Technical Center was recently approved, meaning that all schools in the Great Northwest Area of North Dakota can roll out...
Takeaways from the November We Work! webinar
I had the pleasure of participating in a webinar last month hosted by the Patrick Bertagnolli with the Rough Rider Center in Watford City and Deb Nelson with Vision West. We were one of 6 panelists that talked about different approaches to preparing students for...
A Match with Sanford Health and a Shanley High School Student
We are excited for you to meet Kelly, our latest student to get a partnership from Sanford, one of our partner companies. Sanford will help pay for Kelly's tuition at Minnesota State Community College, and Kelly will have a job waiting for her when she graduates from...
Fargo Startup Golden Path Solutions First In North Dakota To Participate In Venn $1M By 2020
Read the article below to learn more about Golden Path Solutions participation in Venn $1M: https://gfmedc.com/news/fargo-startup-golden-path-solutions-first-in-north-dakota-to-participate-in-venn-1m-by-2020/
Golden Path Solutions and Forward Devils Lake
Download our PDF to learn more about what Golden Path Solutions is doing to help schools, students, employers, and communities that belong to the Northeast Education Services Cooperative. Download PDF
Golden Path Solutions Partners with Venn Foundation
We are thrilled to announce a partnership that we have made with Twin Cities based Venn Foundation. The Venn Foundation works with foundations and other charitable givers that want to invest in companies with big ideas, creating what are called Program Related...
Article in the Wahpeton Daily News about Golden Path and Wahpeton High School’s partnership
We were thrilled to be hosted by Dr. John Richman from NDSCS and Justin Neppl from the Southern Valley Economic Development Association to talk about our partnership with Wahpeton High School, represented by Principal Ned Clooten. We shared with business leaders how...
Golden Path Solutions a recipient of the Greater Fargo Moorhead EDC’s first micro loan for startups!
Golden Path Solutions is excited to be the first recipient of a new micro loan program intended to help small startups get to that next level of growth. The loan will be used to increase our marketing efforts so we can share what we do with more employers, schools,...
North Dakota Career Builders Panel Discussion in Grand Forks
We were excited to be part of a panel discussion hosted by Amy Whitney at the UND Center of Innovation in Grand Forks with Brad Barth (Devils Lake Economic Development), Shelly Blome (NDSCS Director of Financial Aid) and Arik Spencer (President & CEO of the ND...
Golden Path Solutions featured in the January Fargo. Inc. magazine!
We're excited to be featured in the latest Fargo Inc. magazine, a local publication that highlights local companies solving big problems. This issue is related to workforce development and retention, a big problem that Golden Path is trying to solve. You can find the...