Microsoft Learn Career Connected
Program overview
What is the Microsoft Learn Career Connected Talent Coalition
Microsoft Learn Career Connected brings together skilling organizations, newly skilled job-seekers, and employers in need of talent. This Talent Coalition creates community of connection where people can discover opportunity, further develop their skills, build relationships, and hire the right people for the right roles.
Why should I join the Microsoft Learn Career Connected Talent Coalition?
Achieve your goals: Address your immediate talent needs and learn how to build long-term, durable options for the future to help you meet your business goals today and tomorrow.
Expand your talent pipeline: Access a diverse candidate pool from members of the Coalition that are skilling and certifying talent on Microsoft technologies. Members of the coalition include workforce development partners, nonprofits, and the colleges and universities in our Microsoft Learn for Educators program.
Amplify your company: Utilize our platforms to increase awareness of your company and position yourself as an employer of choice.
Access the right candidates: Connect directly with skilled and credentialed candidates through our exclusive, private community on LinkedIn. Share open positions, meet talent, and grow your network through community events.
Get started today
Step 1: Sign up
Step 2: Choose an approach
The Microsoft Learn Career Connected Talent Coalition is anchored in five strategic approaches to helping you close your talent gap. As a member of the Coalition, you're supported in activating our strategic approaches to addressing both your immediate and your ongoing, long-term talent needs.
- Upskill: Upskill your existing technical talent with new technical or consulting skills to accelerate capability and retain critical skills, institutional knowledge, and talent.
- Mobilize: Identify and mobilize your non-tech talent with adjacent skills into technical roles or consulting careers through targeted reskilling.
- Acquire: Identify existing talent pools and contract or permanently place experienced technical, functional or consulting talent into your organization.
- Reskill: Work with organizations that recruit, train, and deploy newly technically skilled individuals with adjacent industry or specialized skills
- Cultivate: Access higher and further education students and institutions, learners working with nonprofit organizations to secure a long-term, durable, and diverse talent pipeline for your organization.
Step 3: Explore and choose a talent-skilling organization
Once you sign up, you’re invited to attend a strategic advising session to understand how to map your short- and long-term talent needs to the approaches we outline. Then we assist in connecting you to the talent-skilling organizations that are a part of the Coalition that fit your expertise.
Step 4: Activate your benefits
As a member of the Microsoft Learn Career Connected Talent Coalition, you receive other benefits that help you in addressing your immediate and long-term talent needs.
- Connect directly with a diverse pool of freshly skilled job seekers through our private LinkedIn community. Share open positions, meet qualified candidates, and grow your network through community events
- Increase your exposure when we promote your organization on the Microsoft Learn Career Connected talent website by featuring your logo
- Find talent ready to work with you by participating in local or global Microsoft Learn Career Connected sponsored career fairs
Join the Microsoft Learn Career Connected program to learn more at https://aka.ms/MLCCEmployerApplication