Talent of Tomorrow Fellowship
October 17, 2023
At a Glance
JFF delivers a no-cost Fellowship for talent recruitment staff that is designed to help employers build more robust, diverse pipelines. The latest Fellowship cohort of HR professionals began in January 2024.
About the Fellowship
The Talent of Tomorrow Fellowship is designed to help employers build more robust and reliable talent pipelines, diversify their workforce, and deploy industry-responsive training programs for new hires.
The fellowship is a professional development experience for emerging HR leaders who want to help propel their companies’ workforces into the future. Participants in this program will discover how to leverage local community college CTE programs to recruit well-qualified talent and build a workforce that stays. In addition, they will learn how partnering with these programs can help bolster a company’s diversity efforts, and they will have opportunities to network with like-minded professionals across the country.
Participation in the fellowship requires a commitment of six hours per month for eight months.
What are different pathways that can be created to provide accessible opportunities for people that don't necessarily have the privilege to earn a four-year degree? That’s why I joined the Talent of Tomorrow Fellowship—it aims to help employers bridge that gap.
Jennifer Lucia, IBM Employee and Talent of Tomorrow Fellow
What Will Talent of Tomorrow Fellows Experience?
The fellowship is a virtual experience that requires a commitment of roughly six hours a month for eight months. All activities take place on our online learning platform. Participating fellows will have an opportunity to do the following:
- Engage with expert instructors from community colleges.
- Learn new talent development strategies
- Experience firsthand the untapped power of community college CTE programs
- Network with a national cohort of emerging leaders in their fields
Meet the Third Cohort of Fellows
Radford Ballard
Angela Benjamin
David Bennett
Brett Berning
Cory Christmas
Christina Cook
Matt Dreier
Lenae Hoffman
Anthony Marino
Jacqueline Martinez
Ryan Meadows
Paul Nies
Amber Reeves
Tamara Webb
Why Career and Technical Education (CTE) Programs?
Companies must reimagine the talent they need to not only manage today’s challenges, but also thrive in a future that will require a resilient, inclusive, and diverse workforce. They can develop that workforce in partnership with community college career and technical education (CTE) programs.
Three reasons why you should partner with CTE programs:
- They produce talented graduates who have the skills and drive your company needs.
- They serve as direct pipelines of talent that you can tap to accelerate your diversity efforts and create the workforce of the future.
- Partnering with community college CTE programs can give you the opportunity to influence training at the outset and customize coursework and subject matter to meet your needs.
What worked a year and a half ago is not working today, and so we are constantly looking at what we can do differently and be a little more innovative in our recruitment—that is why I joined the Talent of Tomorrow Fellowship.
Ryan J. Ellis, Lincoln Electric Employee and Talent of Tomorrow Fellow
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