• Career-Ready Profiles: Help students build profiles that align coursework and extracurriculars with future job or academic applications, making their achievements more relevant.
• Clearer Skill Communication: Empower students to better express what they’ve learned in conversations with teachers, advisors, and peers, enhancing feedback and collaboration.
• Learning Mindfulness: Students become more aware of their strengths and progress, encouraging intentional learning habits that connect to future goals.
• Faster Access to Work Opportunities: Streamline students’ ability to discover internships, part-time jobs, or volunteer roles by organizing their skills into actionable profiles.

• Students’ Needs for Self-Representation: Gather insights into how students prefer to represent their skills, achievements, and experiences, helping you refine how to support student-driven profiles in the future.
• Effective Ways to Present Learning Records: Evaluate where and how digital learner profiles should be used—whether for academic advising, internships, or employer outreach—shaping your institution’s approach to LER deployment.
• Alignment Between Learning and Workforce Readiness: Identify gaps between students’ self-reported skills and external expectations, guiding adjustments to your programs to better align with workforce demands.
• Opportunities for Targeted Support: Recognize trends in student engagement to offer personalized guidance, improve retention, and foster academic success.

Participating in the TalentPass academic field test provides institutions with more than just access to cutting-edge LER tools—it offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of learner records through direct collaboration. Field test partners can customize their testing scope based on what they value most, earning discounts of up to 25% by building additional integrations beyond the baseline. By sponsoring specific components, partners gain a seat on the product advisory board, where their insights will directly inform future development. Partners will also be spotlighted in our PR efforts and the Experience You project presentation, highlighting their leadership in education innovation.

• Customized Testing with Discount Incentives: Build beyond the baseline field test to earn up to 25% off, while testing the tools and integrations most relevant to your institution’s needs.
• Influence Through the Product Advisory Board: Provide key feedback on sponsored components and shape product development as a member of our advisory board.
• Public Recognition and Thought Leadership: Be featured in PR campaigns and presentations as part of the Experience You project, highlighting your institution’s role in education innovation.
• Future-Ready Integration Opportunities: Lay the foundation for advanced LER integrations aligned with your institution’s long-term goals, setting the stage for broader adoption.

Academic partners participating in the field test can go beyond the baseline by sponsoring custom integrations within the TalentSync ecosystem. These optional integrations allow institutions to align their learner data with internal platforms, employer networks, or academic tracking systems, offering students seamless transitions between education and career. By sponsoring these features, partners gain deeper insights into how TalentSync can streamline operations and create meaningful, actionable learner records. Institutions can use these tailored solutions to unlock additional value while earning discounts and positioning themselves at the forefront of LER innovation.

• Employer Network Integration: Connect learner profiles directly with employer job boards or internship programs, helping students access opportunities faster.
• Student Information System (SIS) Sync: Automate data flow between TalentSync and your existing SIS to ensure up-to-date records without manual entry.
• Competency Framework Mapping: Align student records with competency-based frameworks, giving institutions and employers a clear view of students’ mastered skills.
• Custom Reporting and Dashboards: Generate actionable insights through real-time dashboards, tracking student outcomes, engagement, and career readiness.