WGU Labs Accelerator Partners with Unmudl to Bridge the

SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 24, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Accelerator at WGU Labs, an affiliate of online, nonprofit Western Governors University (WGU), announced today an investment in, and strategic partnership with, Unmudl, an online Skills-to-Jobs™ Marketplace that provides opportunities for working learners, employers, and community colleges to engage each other in a more efficient and streamlined marketplace to maximize the return on investment for each stakeholder. 

Unmudl is a disrupter in the traditional higher education education-to-job marketplace, providing learners with shorter, more flexible, and affordable training with a direct connection to jobs and career advancement. Unmudl’s courses are designed collaboratively by employers and community colleges to streamline the talent development process and ensure that talent supply meets the demand for critical roles. Through Unmudl, working learners can also redeem credit for prior learning and work experience to leverage all of their talent assets in order to qualify for better job opportunities. 

With 11.4 million job openings and an estimated $50 million projected to be spent by employers in the United States to fill positions, Unmudl aims to solve the problems of today and prepare for the future. 

“Unmudl flips the way education works for working learners and employers to create sustainable, equitable, and flexible futures for Americans,” said Unmudl Founder and CEO, Dr. Parminder K. Jassal. “We’re excited to work with WGU Labs because of their expertise, creativity, and relationships with trail blazing employers and community colleges who are poised for the future to scale the Skills-to-Jobs™ Movement.”

WGU Labs has a vested interest in increasing the visibility of Unmudl’s efforts with Amazon to develop an Amazon Unmudl Original designed to support careers in Reliability Maintenance Engineering (RME) that are critical to Amazon’s success, by continuing to build the…