EnGen joined SXSW EDU with a powerful charge: to ensure that this world-class convening about building a future-ready workforce included a focus on adult English learners—who represent 1 in 10 working-age adults.
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EnGen helped Annie every step of the way—from preparing for a job interview to honing her business English skills to starting a new role as a procurement manager in Texas.
Sunita’s work in the retail sector means that strong English skills are essential to on-the-job communication, safety, productivity and customer experience. Thanks to EnGen, she now interacts more confidently with customers and colleagues, making her work experience more rewarding and enjoyable.
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In California, three workforce development organizations — Homebridge, Futuro Health, and EnGen — aligned their services to better connect home health workers with job skills and career pathways. The program’s impact is ready to replicate in other states.
Following three days of conversations with dozens of restaurant leaders, we’ve written up four priorities for the sector. Learn how English upskilling can help deliver on all of them.
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Apprenticeships connect workers with jobs in high-demand fields, build career-ready talent pipelines, and boost employers’ bottom lines. Learn how a partnership between EnGen and Maine-based Lewiston Adult Education is powering the local healthcare sector.
Adult education programs are leveraging mobile learning support from two partners—ProLiteracy and EnGen—and boosting their capacity to serve adult English learners, a fast-growing, high-potential workforce demographic.
“I adore EnGen. It’s like a school that never closes its doors. It's the perfect way to study, you do it in your own time. The platform is open 24 hours a day.”
Equipping adult English learners with real-world language skills is just the first step in powering their potential. We must also build a workforce ecosystem that also champions their recruitment, retention, career and economic mobility.
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“EnGen has really helped me with my confidence in communicating. I feel more fluent, and my understanding of the language has improved significantly. I love that I can now help my coworkers with translation and assist them with their language needs”
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"Six months ago, when I started with EnGen, my expectations were not very high because I had been trying to learn English for a long time, and I hadn’t seen any improvement. But after six months with this amazing program, I now speak with more confidence. At work, I can communicate much clearer and with fluidity.”
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In Colorado and across the U.S., 1 in 10 working-age adults is an English learner. The impact of the statewide offering indicates that at-scale English upskilling can be a powerful workforce development tool.
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There’s a role for everyone in the workforce of the future. Yet too often, our workforce development programs leave out key segments of the labor force, including adult English learners. Here are five actionable insights to build a future-ready workforce that embraces multilingual talent.
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Savvy employers are turning to English upskilling to attract and retain a high potential but largely untapped talent pool: adult English learners. Here are three reasons why these programs should be a top priority in talent acquisition and development budgets for 2025.
“Improving my English is a roadmap for my career development." Read how EnGen is helping Qurbanali, a civil engineer from Afghanistan, rebuild his life and livelihood in Virginia.
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State and local governments have found that mobile-first English upskilling can provide a cost effective way to equip adult English learners with both the language skills and workforce skills that help power local economies.
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“In the USA I saw many educational opportunities, and I had a picture of myself learning English to be able to communicate effectively and pursue a career.”
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EnGen Founder Dr. Katie Brown applies her three decades of research on second language acquisition to address your questions about language learning – what works, what doesn’t, and why.
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Growing numbers of companies understand the benefits of upskilling with English, yet many have never before offered a workplace English program. If this is the case for you, rest assured that you’re not alone – and that EnGen is committed to supporting you in creating and implementing a program that will boost your employees’ English proficiency and career mobility, along with your organizations’ bottom line.
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Multilingualism is linked to creativity, problem solving, and innovation. Yet despite this potential, adult English learners are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed than their English-speaking peers. Here are four ways that employers can help close this gap.