Retail Opportunity Network – Updates

GoodPaths

Goodwill Industries International® and Hope Street Group, with support from Walmart Giving, have launched an evidence-based career navigation program called GoodPaths.

THE PROGRAM WILL:

  • Train 70 Career Navigators using the GoodPaths Navigator Web Application

  • Enable trained Career Navigators to serve at least 1,080 incumbent Goodwill employees

  • Launch in three Goodwill regions: Charleston, SC; Houston, TX; and Boise, ID

The Need for GoodPaths: Why The Program Was Created

GoodPaths aims to address talent development and retention challenges in retail. One challenge is the need to cost-effectively provide the support employees require to prepare them to advance within their organizations into hard-to fill leadership roles. Another challenge is the need to reduce chronically high employee turnover, especially in frontline retail staff.

WHO DOES GOODPATHS HELP?

GoodPaths participants include Goodwill and partner employer entry-level employees and frontline workers working in the three Goodwill markets. The target demographic is frontline retail workers who demonstrate the drive, desire and aptitude for an advanced role within the Goodwill organization.

HOW DOES GOODPATHS WORK?

GoodPaths allows Career Navigators to access and interact with the training content through an innovative web application that features resources designed to track participants’ progress towards career advancement and backend structures designed to store all of the data related to a user’s experience.

WHERE IS GOODPATHS BEING PILOTED?

The program will first be tested by three Goodwill organizations: Palmetto Goodwill (Charleston, SC); Goodwill Industries of Houston (Houston, TX); and Easter Seals-Goodwill Northern Rocky Mountains (Boise, ID).

WHAT SETS GOODPATHS APART?

GoodPaths equips Career Navigators with tools, assessments, referrals and support services. By collecting<br /> standardized evidence and hard data, the program reveals each participant’s strengths, barriers, needs and opportunities.

Want to learn more about GoodPaths and how you can get involved? Click here.
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