Make every credential count.
In real life. In real time.
EBSCOed turns fragmented education and workforce data into trusted, actionable signals — so learners get hired, employers find verified talent, and states get measurable returns on every dollar they spend on training.
We connect what people learn to the work they can do.
Skills, credentials, and experiences are spread across transcripts, badges, training records, military files, work history, and a dozen disconnected systems. EBSCOed brings them together. Our platform translates that data into a common language of skills and aligns it to real jobs, real wages, and real opportunity in your state.
The result: a single, trusted ecosystem where individuals own their record, employers find verified talent faster, training providers prove their outcomes, and states see — for the first time — what their workforce can actually do.
The numbers
85%
of U.S. employers now use skills-based hiring — up from 73% just two years ago.
Source: TestGorilla, State of Skills-Based Hiring 2025
39%
of workers' core skills will change by 2030 — meaning every working adult will need to refresh, retool, or re-credential something.
Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025
59%
of the global workforce will need training by 2030 to keep up with how work is changing.
Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025
63%
of employers identify skills gaps as the single biggest barrier to business transformation between now and 2030.
Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025
6×
larger is the average candidate pool when employers hire by skills instead of by job title — 8× for AI roles.
Source: LinkedIn Economic Graph
5×
more predictive of job performance is hiring for skills than hiring for education, and more than 2× more predictive than hiring for prior work experience.
Source: McKinsey & Company
70 million+
U.S. adults have built valuable skills through alternative routes — apprenticeships, the military, on-the-job training, certificates — that traditional resumes don't capture.
Source: Opportunity@Work / Burning Glass
62%
of HR professionals say verifying candidate skills is their top hiring challenge today.
Source: SHRM, 2024
$21K
average employer savings per hire when placement is based on a verified Learning and Employment Record.
Source: EBSCOed customer outcomes
America is open for business — let's make it work for everyone.
EBSCOed powers a population-level talent marketplace — one platform that meets people from high school to retirement and serves every role in the workforce ecosystem along the way. Whether you're standing up skills-based hiring statewide, managing eligibility for Workforce Pell, WIOA, and Registered Apprenticeship, or extending services to populations with the most to gain, EBSCOed connects your users to outcomes from day one.
Students in grades 8–12
Discover careers, take interest and ability assessments, and start building a verified record of skills, experiences, and credentials before graduation — with parental consent and youth-appropriate workflows built in.
Recent graduates and first-time jobseekers
Translate transcripts, badges, internships, and side projects into a skills-based LER that employers can actually understand — and get matched to entry-level jobs, apprenticeships, co-ops, and pathways the day you graduate.
Working adults and career changers
Stack credentials across providers, surface adjacent careers your skills already qualify you for, and find the shortest verified path to higher wages.
Underemployed and STARs (Skilled Through Alternative Routes)
70 million+ U.S. adults have valuable skills employers want but no degree to prove them. EBSCOed validates skills earned through experience, training, and informal learning — so the work you've already done counts.
Transitioning service members, veterans, and military families
Translate JST, ETJ, and VMET records into civilian skills employers recognize, and surface the credentials, jobs, and apprenticeships those skills unlock — anywhere a service member relocates.
Justice-involved and re-entering populations
Surface verified skills and credentials earned during incarceration or supervision, and connect them to second-chance employers and aligned training providers.
Older workers, encore careerists, and retirees re-entering the workforce
Document a lifetime of experience as verified skills, find flexible roles that match, and access reskilling pathways aligned to growing industries — because labor force participation among workers 55+ matters more every year.
Education and training providers — K-12, community college, four-year, CTE, apprenticeship
Register programs, issue verifiable credentials, see real-time labor-market alignment, and prove your graduates' outcomes — at no cost to begin.
Employers
Convert traditional postings into skills-based job descriptions, expand your candidate pool 6×, and hire from a pool of verified candidates whose skills you can trust on first sight.
Workforce boards, career centers, and case managers
Replace fragmented systems and paper files with a unified care-team workflow, automated eligibility for WIOA and Workforce Pell, and benefit-cliff visibility — so staff spend time on people, not on data entry.
Publicly funded benefits programs and supportive services
Connect TANF, SNAP E&T, vocational rehabilitation, and other supportive services into one care-team view of every participant — with funding alignment and benefit-cliff modeling built in.
State agencies and policymakers
Get the first real-time, evidence-grade view of every credential issued in your state, every skill it represents, and every outcome it produces — and tie public funding to credentials with proven ROI.
Free for everyone. Foundation for all.
LER.me® is a free, full-scale talent marketplace from EBSCOed — open to every individual, every educator, every employer, and every workforce partner who wants to participate. No subscription required. No paywall on the foundation. Because a workforce ecosystem only works when everyone can show up.
For individuals — a free, lifelong digital wallet and Learning and Employment Record
Build a verified record of your skills, credentials, and experiences once, and use it your whole career. Upload a resume. Sync transcripts and badges from your school, employer, or training provider. Connect Registered Apprenticeship records and military files. Self-attest to volunteer work, life experience, and durable skills. Curate different LERs for different opportunities and share what you want, with whom you want, when you want — and export your data in Open Badges 3.0, CLR 2.0, or PDF whenever you choose.
Free interest and ability assessments
Take research-grounded interest and ability assessments to discover careers that fit who you are — not just where you've been. Results feed directly into your personalized recommendations and pathways.
Free consumer-choice tools
Compare programs, credentials, and careers side by side. See real wages by occupation and state. See which credentials stack toward which jobs. Make decisions about your time, money, and future on real data — not marketing brochures.
For educators and employers — free contributor access
Education, training, and industry partners get free access to register programs, opportunities, and credentials in the marketplace. Map your offerings to skills, occupations, and wages. Get immediate alignment signals so you know how your programs match the real economy. Show up where motivated learners are looking.
Free issuing of validated credentials
Approved providers can issue Open Badges 3.0 credentials directly into LER.me® wallets — verifiable at the source, portable to any open-standards system, and visible to every employer participating in the marketplace.
Free credential, skill, and experience validation requests
Individuals can request validation of credentials, skills, and experiences from approved issuers — turning self-reported claims into verified evidence employers can trust.
Free upload of self-attested credentials
Add the parts of your story no one ever printed a transcript for — volunteer work, side projects, hands-on experience, durable skills. Self-attested entries are clearly labeled and travel alongside your verified ones, so the full picture of who you are is visible.
Personalized recommendations and pathways for everyone
Every wallet holder gets personalized job, learning, and career-pathway recommendations — grounded in real labor-market demand, real wages, and the skills they already have. Free. Forever.
See what a connected workforce looks like in your state.
Whether you're a state agency, a university system, or a workforce board, our team can show you how a unified platform simplifies operations, improves outcomes, and turns workforce data into a public asset.