The Workbay Platform
Workbay is an interactive career development platform that links recruitment, skill building and career navigation into one comprehensive system, deliverable online or offline as a browser-based or mobile app. Workbay provides a unique solution for communities to close the workforce gaps. It was developed to inform, educate and develop students and job seekers, while directly connecting them to employers, career counselors, career pathways and real jobs.
Find Real Jobs & Internships
The Workbay system effortlessly pulls jobs and internships from a company’s current career tracking system with no additional work for the employer. Job posts can also easily be entered manually into the system.
Users can search job opportunities based on their current location and explore Career Card profiles. Career Cards displays a full job description for each posting with the ability to apply from a mobile device.
The platform and mobile app list the top business-rated skills and salary averages for each job. Wherever the user is, the app gives them up-to-the-minute details of where jobs are and where to get the training they need to arrive prepared for their interview.
Career Cards
- Career Cards teach Job Seekers about high-demand careers and offer links to educational resources and online training needed to embark on those careers.
- Job Seekers have many ways to view Career Cards, career families and career pathways, including a “Constellation” view and a List view.
- Each card links to external resources including MyNextMove.org from O-net
- Job Seekers can watch a video portrait of a real person in that line of work and see general information about their skills and responsibilities
- Career Pathways allow the Job Seeker to view the Career Card as a milestone in a larger journey.
- Users can view multiple careers sorted by expertise or average salary.
Library of Online Training
Workbay offers a comprehensive library of online training courses relevant to a wide variety of industry sectors. Each course has an assessment of learning and learners earn training badges upon successful course completion.
Workbay also provides a Learning Management System for platform administrators to build their own courses and link online and local classroom courses to nearby current job postings.
Classroom Management
Workbay offers teachers numerous lesson plans and personalized learning tools that can be used in the classroom or accessed anywhere on students’ smartphones. Teachers can upload online content, view their students’ activity in the platform, integrate with lesson plans to incorporate the career materials to deliver learning objectives across the curriculum especially in career and technical education. Teachers can view high demand jobs in the community and message with employers about their jobs and the relevant skills needed to pursue those careers.
SMS Messaging
Use our SMS messaging system to send text prompts, invitations to an interview, training follow ups, and progress feedback to people in your network. Track all SMS activity via our Reports Dashboard.
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Shared Connected Database
Workbay is unique to other products on the market because it provides a shared connected database for all of the stakeholders in a community. Community stakeholders gain access to valuable workforce information, particularly valuable because it is cross-referenced with other forces in the local economy.
Our connected database uses a common skills taxonomy which allows better data and gap analysis, for example, between users’ skills and open job positions or post-secondary programs and local employer demands.
Unique new reports, cross-referencing previously “silo’d” data-analytics engage cross-sector dialogue and reporting.
Job Seeker
The job seeker is able to explore careers that match their interests and personality, while also cross referencing personal preferences with workforce trends and current market availability. The job seeker can find local education programs that line up with their desired careers that can be sorted based on location, duration, and price. They can begin taking locally hosted online training that align with competencies that are required for that career, so they can test their strength and enjoyment in pursuing that pathway prior to investing their time and money.
Employers
The employer is able to find qualified candidates based on real data that is written to the user’s resume recording their performance in either employer-built or assigned pre-hire training as well as the user’s performance in other online modules. The employer can deliver and track employee training programs (pre and post hire), build robust reports and promote career pathways within their organization.
Educators
Educators are able to track student learning and skills building, determine course curriculum and additional programs based on local workforce trends, hold live classrooms assisting in the development of job skills, help students find jobs and internships, analyze their credentialing against other institutions, and advertise their programs as linked to real jobs.
Career Counselors
Career counselors are able to see where and what the jobs are in the community , identify gaps in the talent pool and educational offerings, and build programs that assist students in preparing for available jobs.
Community Organizers
Community organizers are equipped with tools to build the community workforce by tracking the effectiveness of the available resources, reporting on changes in culture and economics, and by promoting prosperous pathways and connections on an organizational level.
Robust Reporting
The Workbay Dashboard provides a clean and comprehensive Administrator experience.
Context-rich reports provide the analytics you need to track progress on training to achieve your objectives for pre-hire, recruitment, on-boarding, performance assessment and hi-potential internal candidate management.
The Dashboard provides tools to report activity on the integrated library of workskills and life skills training. The feature-rich Learning Content Management System further supports your development of new online courses, and integration with third party courseware.
Learning reports can be generated and analyzed based on user career goals, learning preferences, activity types, competency assessment and performance demonstration. Learning reports can be cross-refenced to job search and job hiring data.
Administrators can track the Career Pathways favorited, badges earned, and jobs applied for of all their clients, in real time, to allow for comprehensive consulting.
Text and email messaging is integrated to the Dashboard allowing Administrators to communicate instantly with their clients, while reviewing their progress.
Students / Job Seekers
Workbay introduces you to new job possibilities, shows you the pathway to getting hired, outlines the skills you need, and provides content and connections to them. Your profile reflects a deeper picture of your continuous learning as a professional.
Promote Yourself
Start by making your own profile to build a resume, track job matches, log your learning, join networks, build talent, discover opportunities, watch videos and more!
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Explore Careers
Watch videos of real, local professionals who have careers that might interest you. Choose from hundreds of jobs and careers, and explore the skills, duties, and education they require. You can “follow” those that interest you to keep track of the relevant training and opportunities available to you.
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Find Job and Internship Opportunities
Land your dream job.
Discover available jobs, internships, education, professional development, training and volunteer opportunities in your area using our Explore Map. Our personalized search allows you to quickly zone in on the perfect job opportunity for you!
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Build Your Skills Portfolio
Keep track and share all of your hard work.
Our course library provides great resources to get yourself job-ready. Learn new skills through our online learning, and third-party providers. Your new skills are automatically added to your Skills Portfolio to showcase your learning achievements to employers.
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Discover Education Opportunities
Find local and online education opportunities. While exploring careers, Workbay alerts you to the types of education and skills you need for that career, and connects you directly to where those programs are offered. Armed with that information, you can access the learning you need to achieve your dreams.
Employers / Recruiters
Workbay assists employers in finding and retaining the best candidates. Our suite of tools connects talented people with businesses like yours and helps you prepare them for success. You can post jobs and internships, review applicants, deliver contract training, create and analyze reports, and promote your business. Provide development opportunities through our learning management system, where you can assign training modules to your current and future employees.
Promote Your Business, Recruit and Retain Talent
Showcase your organization to recruit top talent.
Give job seekers a preview of your company by creating a company Workbay profile page. Here you can host a variety of multimedia resources and connect to a database of skills and career types, drawing talent and filling your open positions.
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Post Jobs, Internships & Review Candidates
Search active and motivated candidates.
Workbay allows you to post your company’s available jobs & internships. Start building your network to find, acquire and retain talent. Match our Job Cards to your posts to give applicants a better idea of required skills, duties and education for each position.
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Managing Made Easy
Track Applicants, Run, Analyze and Create reports
Our Company Dashboard provides a great tool showing an overview of applicants by tracking the major activity areas on the site, users in your network, users’ learning and interests, and more. You can also review resumes, personal profiles and completed online training.
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Continuous Learning
Offer your employees online training opportunities.
Workbay hosts a full-featured Learning Management System with powerful multi-media delivery. You can provide skills training and online learning programs to current and future employees, both through Workbay and by connecting to third-party providers. Our system can serve a variety of content types, including video, documents, interactivities, and more. We also feature the ability to create live-streaming classrooms. All training is managed by an easy-to-use company dashboard with enterprise-level reporting.
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Pre-Hire Learning
Retention is a critical factor on both sides of the experience for workers and their employers.
Workbay connects employers with the pre-hire learning for potential new hires. Requiring candidates to complete the program successfully brings objectivity to the hiring process and helps weed out candidates that lack the required skill or commitment for the position.
Employers can monitor and assess the behavior, skills and success of the candidates at every stage of the process.
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On-Boarding
Workbay helps companies to prepare potential employees with the right set of skills and knowledge they need to begin working productively and safely.
With Workbay employers can enrol new hires in interactive text-message support to reinforce training, assess understanding and attitude, and capture feedback on the orientation experience.
Educators / Trainers
You can help the students discover career paths, find internships, explore educational options, deliver learning experiences, and more. Our platform enables you to expose students to a world of personalized job possibilities – without leaving the classroom.
Promote Education Programs
Start your students on career paths
Use Workbay to highlight local and online education opportunities. While exploring careers, Workbay alerts users to the types of education and skills they need for that career and connects directly to where those programs are offered. Armed with that information, each individual can access the learning they need to achieve their dream career.
Help Students Find Jobs & Internships
Get your students real-world experience
Assist your students in finding the right opportunities. Use our Career Exploration videos and assessments to give students a better idea of what careers they’re interested. Use the explore map to find local jobs and internships that align with their long term goals.
Support Skills Development
Promote the growth of talent
Through our full-featured Learning Management System, you can host online learning or connect to third-party providers for students to become certified and amplify their skill portfolios. Connecting needs with resources and giving users access to education awareness helps prepare them for a career.
Personalized Student Learning
Engage students in personalized learning
Build your students’ skills through the Workbay LMS and live classroom option. Here you can assign learning, track individual and group progress, and manage their learning using the Reports Dashboard. The Workbay LMS gives you tools to deliver personalized and blended learning to your students on hundreds of topics.
Community Organizations
Workbay helps Community Organizers connect to their clients by providing a rich suite of tools for communicating directly to the mobile phones in their clients’ pockets. Organizers can provide their clients with the resources to skill up, get smart about local employer demand and training opportunities, and move to forward to great education and employment opportunities.
- Workbay is designed to give state of the art tools to the coaches, counsellors, educators and administrators who give a hand to those most in need of a step up. By linking technologies for recruitment, skill building and career navigation into one comprehensive platform, Workbay puts a powerful networked console on your desk, with instant outreach to the mobile phone and tablet of every client you serve.
- Through Workbay, students, job seekers and aspiring workers connect to career counselors, training and education opportunities, and job postings. Federal and state data integrated to local job posts and college programs points the way for clients to make better decisions about their own career pathway. Text and email messaging integrated to the Workbay dashboard make it easy for you to communicate instantly with your clients, while reviewing their progress.
- Through Workbay, students, job seekers and aspiring workers connect to career counselors, training and education opportunities, and job postings. Federal and state data integrated to local job posts and college programs points the way for clients to make better decisions about their own career pathway. Text and email messaging integrated to the Workbay dashboard make it easy for you to communicate instantly with your clients, while reviewing their progress.
- Workbay supplements this instant communication capability with a rich library of automated interactive messages that support your client’s progress through resume development, career interest assessment, online learning, post-secondary education exploration, job searching, application, and interview processes.
- The Workbay platform additionally supports Community Organizers work on behalf of their clients by providing training, assessment, and industry recognized, corporate-sponsored credentials to the 24 Million low wage earners across America.
- Community Organizations use their own branded version of the Workbay platform to reach into their community and to engage everyone in an online community of learning and career development. With resources for each stakeholder, the local platform optimizes a community’s ability to identify skills needed, publish skills development courses to be accessed online or over smart phones, and guides users to enroll in training and colleges programs.
- The community’s employers can curate applicants based on skills badging managed by sector councils and others. Employers can use the local platform to publish and assess pre-hire training, and to support internships and new-hire employee orientation, optionally sharing a dashboard console with counselors or educators who may be given visibility to the new recruit’s training and text support.
Corporate Implementation
Workbay is a full-service developer of learning content and learning delivery systems for Corporate clients. We created and delivered over 10 million employee hours of custom-built online content and assessment for frontline workers in:
- Retail (Walmart, Home Depot, The Limited, The Brick)
- Healthcare Professional and Pharmaceutical Professional (TEVA Novapharm, Mayo Clinic, McMaster University, Conestoga College)
- Food Service and Sales, (McDonalds, McCain Foods)
- Hospitality (Disney Parks and Resorts, Four Seasons Hotels)
- Financial Services (Western Union, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, GE)
- Manufacturing and Related Services (TEVA, Johnson & Johnson) and
- Resource Industries (SanGold Mines, Noront Resources, Prospector and Developers Association)
In each project, our work has been to analyze and determine the safety, performance and engagement standards and metrics, develop media to engage and assess that knowledge and behavior, develop and implement an integrated content and delivery system, and support our clients though evaluation of results.
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Corporate Solutions
An integrated platform for Pre-Hire Training, Recruitment, Orientation, On-Boarding 90 Day Support & Assessment
One administrative console/reports dashboard integrating a hosted suite of tools:
- Learning Content Management System (LMS/LCMS),
- Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
- Competency Management
- Career Pathway Network
- Internal messaging system with mobile text tools
- Integrated IOS and Android mobile applications, and
- Online site (ADA Compliant)
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A library of over 100 work skills courses:
Train and assess Teamwork, Workplace Communications, OSHA, Prevention of Harassment, Performance in Retail, Hospitality, Food Service, Introductory courses in Healthcare, Manufacturing safety, TDL, Finance, HR, and more. Corporate subscriptions to our platform gain an effective library of work skills training and assessment for entry level employees, backed by our demonstrated success engaging better performance, improved productivity, and increased retention.
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Career Pathways / Career Ladders:
Career Pathways support employees to enhance their skills and knowledge for promotions and transfers to new or different positions. Workbay’s integrated tools and content provide your corporation with all you need to provide your employees with an engaging Career Pathway platform. Our system is easily customized and updated by your HR team, supported by our inclusive library of over 1400 Occupation portraits. Workbay supports your best practices in employee engagement by integrating Career Ladder tools with corporate learning and internal recruitment posting. “Implementing career paths may also have a direct impact on the entire organization by improving morale, career satisfaction, motivation, productivity, and responsiveness in meeting departmental and organizational objectives.” (Society for Human Resource Management, July 2015)
Friendly, Adaptable, Easy to Integrate:
Workbay has integrated with many major LMS systems in large corporations and with HR systems and Financial systems. We are ready to partner with existing corporate systems and have proven capabilities to integrate to large scale enterprise systems so that HR gets the reports they need to tie learning investments to business results.
Inclusive and Diverse:
We have delivered training internationally in Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish, Japanese, and French and worked with ADA compliance and diversity representation always in consideration of all development. Our team includes persons representing multiple nationalities, backgrounds and languages.
Challenging Environments:
The Workbay platform operates to deliver and assess training for most devices and learning environments, including interrupted internet environments (hospitals, underground mines, prisons, cruise ships), and with native Android and IOS apps, all integrating to the administrative console.
Sector Solutions:
Our “Workplace Foundations for Leadership” library has been implemented by one city consortium to build a skilled local workforce shared by Retail, Hospitality and Food Services — developing a well-equipped applicant pool for local corporations that are facing recruitment challenges. Our “Packaging for Medical Device” program graduates from our online learning program to a performance assessment managed by an association of Medical Device manufacturers, to promote pre-hire competency development and performance demonstration, building a critically needed workforce.
Pre-Hire Training:
Corporations may choose to attach online learning to job postings or to invite recruits to login to the online platform or download a branded mobile app with training. Additionally, our hosted platform supports your corporation to integrate with secondary and post-secondary counsellors and workforce agencies. Corporations may choose to share job requirements, career pathways, and recommendations for online training and college programs, so that in addition to potential recruits accessing pre-hire training, community workforce counselors can better advise job-seekers. The Workbay platform when used to integrate your corporate requirements and career pathways with community partners, supports your corporation to publish training for pre-hire readiness and assessment. Corporate for Pre-Hires addresses three root factors of turnover; misunderstood expectations, lack of support and lack of skills. Armed with realistic expectations and skills before day one, employees start strong and stay employed longer.