Learn to Start
Market-Ready Certification™
Serving the demands of 21st-century markets
The future of jobs market for students entering kindergarten will look very different than the market graduates are entering now. Learn to Start Market-Ready Credentials have been engineered over a decade of learning, iterating, and executing, to ensure students are prepared with the employability skills necessary to enter, and add value to, emerging industries – both for today and the unpredictable future ahead.
TWO STACKABLE MARKET-READY CREDENTIALS
A Learn to Start market-ready student submits standard of proof, over time, for 20 highly demanded employability skills.
Learn to Start created, implemented, and maintains the Learn to Start Model. This model provides education a transformative solution to drive change and develops students highly capable of attaining certification through the Learn to Start Market-Ready credential system.
Market-Ready Certification 1: Competitive Entry Level Employability
Critical Thinking Skills
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COMPREHENSIONThe learner is able to clearly understand and process the information they are consuming.
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LEARNING AGILITYThe learner develops sustainable habits and takes advantage of opportunities to obtain knowledge and grow their skill base.
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RESEARCH LITERACYThe learner can discern between reliable and unreliable sources and consults and corroborates with a variety of sources when determining answers and taking actions.
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DATA ANALYSISThe learner competently gathers relevant data and applies it to solution creation.
Creativity Skills
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ADAPTABILITYThe learner embraces both failure and change as they approach their work and collaborates effectively with others.
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INNOVATIONThe learner recognizes and deploys the power of creative thinking as they seek alternative solutions.
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SELF-DISCIPLINEThe learner is in control of their work habits and holds themself personally accountable for their actions and results as they lead themselves first.
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RISK-TAKINGThe learner takes advantage of opportunities despite the possibility of failure.
Collaboration Skills
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PROJECT MANAGEMENTThe learner exercises leadership skills to construct and execute according to a timeline of actions to create a solution.
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COMMUNICATION ACROSS MEDIUMSThe learner expresses themself and their ideas in the context of specific mediums.
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INFLUENCE & COLLABORATIONThe learner commands their own expertise and collaboratively works with others to achieve goals.
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DIGITAL ETIQUETTEThe learner understands appropriate behavior when engaging with digital mediums.
Market-Ready Certification 2: Competitive Project Management Employability/Self-Employment
Leadership Skills
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STRUCTURED PROBLEM SOLVINGThe learner utilizes the process of iterative solution creation.
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PUBLIC SPEAKINGThe learner demonstrates their believability, credibility, and charisma to an audience.
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PROACTIVITYThe learner is prone to action and leadership rather than reaction as they move to achieve their goals.
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PROJECT MANAGEMENTThe learner exercises leadership skills to construct and execute according to a timeline of actions to create a solution.
Enterprise Skills
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DIGITAL LITERACYThe learner efficiently uses technology to search and evaluate data, and communicate value and execute on solutions.
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CONFLICT MANAGEMENTThe learner recognizes the importance of feedback and directly communicates with peers, team members, and mentors to resolve issues.
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FINANCIAL LITERACYThe learner makes evidence-based decisions concerning their personal and professional finances.
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MODELINGThe learner creates processes for thinking and understanding solutions.
Solving for a Global Problem
Impact of the Worldwide Skills Gap
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Developing Future-Proofed Students
According to Adobe's In Demand Skills 2022 Report: How to grow skills and get hired
Diversify Your Knowledge
Learn to Start builds a diversity of essential skills in students to ensure they are highly marketable, adaptable and prepared to function in unpredictable markets with a high level of agency.
Prepare While Getting an Education
Learn to Start has been invented to integrate directly into the current system of traditional K-20 education to ensure every student we serve is becoming aligned with 21st-century markets from day one. We call this K-Market™.
Expand Your Hard and Soft Skills
Learn to Start allows students to identify their strengths and weaknesses and become intrinsically motivated to build portfolios that prove they have mastered both the soft and hard skills that are aligned with their passions, interests and capabilities.
Ready Your Portfolio
Learn to Start students build powerful proof-of-self inside their sharable digital portfolio.
See how the Learn to Start Market-Ready Certification Stacks Up Against Current Market Demanded Skills
ATTAINING MARKET-READY CERTIFICATION
Learn to Start students are empowered to bring their issued certificates to the markets where they can claim real market-readiness with confidence. To attain certification a student must…
Be enrolled in a secondary or post-secondary institution offering Learn to Start programming.
Be subscribed on the Learn to Start Learner Platform.
For secondary, participate in a minimum of one year (150 hours) of Learn to Start per certificate. For post-secondary, a minimum of one semester (75 hours) of Learn to Start per certificate.
Certification is issued by Learn to Start’s Issuance and Auditing Department upon their final review and assessment of proof of work inside each student’s IAMR.
GOING BEYOND CERTIFICATION
Learn to Start empowers industry to have the final say when it comes to endorsing a Learn to Start student’s market-ready skills using our LTS Industry Verification Platform.
Through this powerful platform students continue to work towards certification using a more autonomous method of learning.
Students who successfully become Market-Ready Certified access a trove of incredible industry resources that includes insights, internships and even employment offered by our Learn to Start, global network of industry partners.