Prepared for MTC · Job Corps · November 2026

Ready For Work.
Here's The Evidence.

Job Corps builds the skills employers hire for. We make them visible: heard at intake, tracked through training, proven at exit, and carried to a first job on a Skills Transcript next to the NCRC.

Danny Byun & Josh ArnoldCo-Founders, Impacter Pathway · introduced by Steve Carnevale, Blue Ash Ventures
The Gap

Credentials Prove
What Students Can Do.
Employers Hire Who
They Are Becoming.

A diploma, the NCRC and a trade certificate show what a graduate can do. The Skills Transcript shows who they are becoming: eight durable skills, measured in their own words from elementary school through Job Corps and into a first job. Issued by Impacter Pathway. Owned by the learner.

120+Job Corps centers nationwide, ages 16 to 24
65%national goal for a diploma or equivalency
85%national placement goal for trade completers
0national measures of durable skills

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Job Corps PRH Appendix 501, PY 2024 Performance Management System; jobcorps.gov.

Santa Clara · Orange County · Opportunity Youth

Young People Like Yours.
Already Heard.

County offices bring us into juvenile halls, court and community schools, and opportunity youth programs: young people rebuilding after leaving school, the justice system, or both. The same young people MTC serves in Job Corps and reentry.

OCDE ACCESS · In Their Own WordsReal answers, verbatim. Select one.

What These Rooms Taught Us

Your Standards.
Our Measure.

We don't ask centers to learn a new framework. The eight durable skills we measure read straight into the Career Success Standards centers already teach, so every report comes back in Job Corps' own words. Select a standard.

Career Success Standards

Durable Skills We Measure

Draft crosswalk for discussion with MTC. Standards as published by Job Corps; mapping by Impacter Pathway.

One Learner, Three Moments

Heard On The Way In.
Proven On The Way Out.

How We Measure

Durable Skills, Heard.

Validating Skill Growth

Growth You Can Hear.

On The Way InAugust 18
On The Way OutOctober 8

Same prompt both times, so the change is in the learner, not the question. Expert raters re-score a sample every week.

What They Carry Out

A Skills Transcript
Next To The NCRC.

The NCRC says a graduate can read a work order and do the math. The Skills Transcript says how they handle a hard day, a crew and a setback, with their own recorded answers as the evidence. An employer can press play.

01Every level has evidenceEach line links to the answer that earned it
02Intake to exitGrowth shown as a start and a finish, not one number
03Checked by peopleExpert raters re-score a sample every week
04Theirs to keepBuilt to travel as a digital credential
ETS×Impacter Pathway
The New WorkKeys · Assessing Skills Through Language

ACT WorkKeys.
Explain Your Thinking.
Surface Your Skills.

After a WorkKeys item, the learner says out loud how they decided. We evaluate the reasoning, so the NCRC gets a second record beside it: the skills behind the answer. Built with ETS, our measurement partner and investor, which now brings ACT WorkKeys and the NCRC under one roof.

6,000North Carolina students in the state's next phase
14,000skills evaluations planned
4,000workforce transcripts, with NCWorks

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction plan with ETS, Skills for the Future. We built and run the platform for 12 districts in North Carolina and Missouri.

The spoken follow-up · workkeys.impacterpathway.com
The Platform

Learner, Instructor,
Counselor, You.

One platform, a view for everyone on a center's team. All of it runs live at demo.impacterpathway.com. Pick a view, then open it and click around.

demo.impacterpathway.com
Machine Learning, Checked By People
0.918

Agreement with trained human raters. Across eight skills, the model's level lands where a trained rater's does on 77.3% of answers exactly and 98.0% within one level.

77.3%exact match with the human score
98.0%within one level, against a 94% benchmark
0 of 40

Forty people scored one live answer. 31 landed on the system's level. 39 were within one.

Every Skill Clears The Gate.

Human–model agreement by skill · Model Card v6.0

Release gate, 0.70A new model ships only if it beats production.
How We Work

A Pilot Pathway. Ninety Days To A Read You Can Act On.

What MTC Gets At Day 90

What It Takes From A Center

Thank You, Dan

Start The
Pilot Pathway.

Ninety days, your centers, your standards. Scan to answer one question yourself and see what a learner sees on day one, then open the instructor and counselor views.

Danny ByunCo-Founder & Co-CEO
Josh ArnoldCo-Founder & Co-CEO
With Steve CarnevaleBlue Ash Ventures
Try It Nowdemo.impacterpathway.com