Workforce Foresight · for EXPLR industry partners

See the workforce before the market does.

EXPLR's consented, aggregate read on the skills, technologies, and industry adjacencies taking shape in the emerging STEM workforce — years ahead of the labor market.

See the public findings → The Early Read

All 50states & territories
in the read
Years earlyahead of the
labor market
Consent-firstaggregate · anonymized
double opt-in
By capabilitywhat talent can do,
not labels
What it is

A read on the workforce that's still forming

The instruments most organizations use to plan for the future of work are backward-looking — they describe demand that has already formed. Workforce Foresight reads the other direction: what the next technical workforce is actually building, in aggregate, years before it reaches hiring data.

Mapped by capability

We map talent by what students can demonstrably do — the skills and technologies in their work — not the labels they use. Capability is the truth; the words often lag.

Consent-first by design

Aggregate and anonymized, built on double opt-in. Students are participants and beneficiaries, never the product — enterprises never see individual student data.

A source no one can copy

Drawn from EXPLR's national STEM community — Edge® skills portfolios and The Stage — a consented pipeline to emerging talent no incumbent can lawfully replicate.

We map by capability, not by label. Talent counts toward a field when the skills it demonstrates fit that field — even when it never calls itself by that name. — How Workforce Foresight reads the emerging workforce
Who it's for

Built for the people planning the future of work

Workforce Foresight is available exclusively to EXPLR's industry partners — the employers who help build the pipeline. It helps them see where technical talent is forming, and act early while there's still time to shape it.

Employers & enterprises Talent & early-career teams Workforce planning & R&D Industry partners & funders

For EXPLR industry partners

Workforce Foresight is available only to EXPLR's approved industry partners. Partners sign in here; access is not open to the public.

Access Workforce Foresight
Contact

Request access or say hello

Workforce Foresight is a benefit for EXPLR's industry partners. Tell us about your organization and we'll be in touch about partnership and access.

Email foundersoffice@explr-media.com

Aggregate and consent-based. Students are participants and beneficiaries, never the product — Workforce Foresight never exposes individual student data.