New tech solution puts emphasis on skills, not college degrees, to secure ideal job matches

BOSTON, October 01, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–YUPRO Placement, the leader in skills-first job placement and career advancement, announced today a job board to connect companies with skilled, ready-to-work early-career talent at no cost. The goal of the “No Fees Just Futures” job board is to increase access to corporate job opportunities for historically overlooked talent while filling open job roles with qualified workers trained through nontraditional routes.

This mission-driven HR tech solution is launched in partnership with YUPRO Placement’s nonprofit parent company, Year Up United, the nation’s leading nonprofit workforce development organization.

Companies can post job openings and tap into a vetted, skilled pool of thousands of early-career candidates who graduated from Year Up United’s Career Pathways programs. In addition to technical skills in areas such as IT help desk, project management, cyber security, data and research, accounting and corporate finance, quality assurance, and customer service, Year Up United puts heavy emphasis on career readiness skills to create confident, accountable professionals who will thrive in the workplace.

Through the “No Fees Just Futures” job board, YUPRO Placement markets corporate job openings to this talent pool and matches them with the right positions. There are no posting fees, no direct hire placement fees, no subscription fees, and no strings attached.

“Our unique job board connects corporate America, including staffing firms, with nontraditional talent ready to work,” said Michelle Sims, YUPRO Placement CEO. “We want to place skilled talent who haven’t followed a traditional four-year college degree path and introduce them to corporate roles they normally wouldn’t have access to. We know the struggles that employers are facing with hiring talent for entry level and mid-career roles and the challenge is often exacerbated when they narrow the candidate pool to only those with four-year college degrees. We partner with companies ready to welcome a nontraditional talent acquisition strategy to grow their workforce.”

“YUPRO Placement’s ‘No Fees Just Futures’ job board is an integrated tech solution that will help us place more graduates into jobs at scale,” said Ellen McClain, Year Up United CEO and President. “Our professionals are motivated, career-ready and guided by YUPRO Placement’s recruiting team, who provide continued job search support and placement for their lifetime.”

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About YUPRO Placement

YUPRO Placement champions skills-first hiring by sourcing, recruiting, retaining, and advancing historically overlooked talent. A mission-driven placement firm and division of Year Up United, we serve as the connector between forward-thinking employers, workforce development organizations, and nontraditional, career-ready talent. YUPRO Placement creates pathways to upward economic mobility and workplace diversity. The result: a high performing workforce with the skills to drive positive career and business outcomes. Learn how placement with social impact is better business at www.yupro.com.

About Year Up United (YUU)

Year Up United is a workforce development organization committed to expanding access to economic opportunity for all young adults by providing business and talent solutions to reshape the world of work. We envision a world where everyone has equal opportunity to achieve their full potential and we know it will take multiple approaches and solutions to realize this vision. For nearly 25 years, we have catalyzed change in the talent and business landscape, delivering comprehensive solutions that drive material impact on lives, businesses, and communities. Our work is not done. United, we will end the Opportunity Divide for good. To learn more, visit https://www.yearupunited.org.

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