Jeffrey Moss
Skills-Based Hiring with Micro-Internships
Teaches:
The Gig Economy: Enabling Experiential Learning at Scale
Jeffrey Moss is the founder of Parker Dewey and a lifelong advocate for expanding access to education and opportunity. With a deep appreciation for the impact of his own public-school education, Jeffrey has dedicated his career to improving outcomes for learners of all backgrounds—supporting K-12 students, individuals with special needs, college students, and adult learners through both investment and nonprofit work. He brings this same commitment to his most important role: helping his two daughters with their homework.
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Jeffrey’s professional experience spans senior operating roles at Educational Testing Service (ETS) and Specialized Education Services, and a successful career as a venture capital investor in education and technology. His portfolio includes notable companies like Connections Education, Fleetcor, and Progressus Therapy. He serves on advisory boards at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and Purdue University’s College of Liberal Arts, and has held leadership roles with organizations including OneGoal and the Illinois Venture Capital Association.
masterclass DESCRIPTION
While internships, co-ops, and other experiential learning opportunities are invaluable to student academic and career success, many students are unable to participate in these programs. In addition, the potential number of these experiential opportunities are limited by the high financial and other costs to employers. As a result, employers often only make these available to students from specific backgrounds and post-secondary institutions.
During this keynote we will highlight how the emergence of Micro-Internships is addressing these challenges, and doing so in a way that does not undermine academic freedom or require faculty behavior change. Specifically, through the use of short-term, paid, professional assignments, companies can offer significantly more experiential opportunities that will be accessible to a greater number of learners. As students participate in these assignments, not only are they developing relationships with professionals, but they are also engaging with faculty and alumni as in-class learning is reinforced. We will also share strategies to introduce or amplify these programs, and metrics on the results.
MASTERCLASS TRAILER
Program
Employer Partnerships
With tight labor markets, rising education costs, and a widening skills gap, educational institutions and employers have every reason to partner together. Our schools and colleges want to understand, and respond to, local workforce needs more than ever before. Simply convening local industry representatives for compliance is woefully insufficient. Thankfully we know what effective partnerships look like and how to sustain them.
Each masterclass in Employer Partnerships covers a vitally important element about the practicalities and challenges of partnership implementation. Learn how we can engage in meaningful collaborations, innovate new structures, and blur the walls of our classroom so that every learner and local partner benefits.
Getting to Know Jeffrey
1
What was your first job? What did you learn from it?
Was the first summer intern
I had working with me.
While not a formal teaching experience, it highlighted the value of giving individuals the opportunity to learn through experience, and providing
the structure where they can make mistakes in a “risk free” way. I was fortunate as that was the environment my first boss provided to me, so I simply did my best to replicate it.
2
Where/who do you look to in order to stay updated on changes in your field?
The students on our platform. Not only is it why we do
what we do, but seeing the challenges so many of them are going through makes me want to push even harder.
3
What sparked your interest in work-based learning?
In most areas of education there is an inherent conflict of interest between the stakeholders – learners, teachers, funders, administrators, etc. However, in college-to- career the interest of all of stakeholders are aligned. Learners want to get great jobs, colleges want their students to get hired and keep employers happy, and employers want to make great hires. However when looking at the metrics around the space (eg 47% of recent grads under/ unemployed, 55% first year attrition, increasing cost / hire) something is clearly not working.
“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good“.
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