Join us at our in-person GED Job and Apprenticeship Expo, where you’ll have the chance to learn about exciting career pathways and training opportunities available beyond the GED.

Plus, meet our network of employers ready to hire GED graduates and participate in interviews for jobs available now.

Benefits:

Learn how you can secure your first digital role (with less than 45 hours of self-paced, online training) through the GED Tech Apprenticeship™ program.*
Meet career coaches who can guide you through the process and recommend next steps.
Network with representatives from local employers looking for fresh talent.
Attendees on the day will go into the draw to win an iPad!

The GED Job and Apprenticeship Expo is FREE and open to anyone in the Miami area who has completed their GED credential or is currently preparing to take the GED test.

*The GED Tech Apprenticeship program is not affiliated with or registered as a FL Department of Education state apprenticeship program. Learn more about registered apprenticeship programs through the FLDOE.

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Agenda

The GED Job and Apprenticeship Expo is designed to give you everything you need to land your first role.

Part 1 is orientation, with the aim of bringing you up to speed on the opportunities available to you. You'll also hear directly from employers about the candidate types they're looking to hire — which will help you succeed in your interviews.

Part 2 begins after lunch, when the job interviews take place. Once you confirm your attendance at the event, our team will be in touch to line up 10-minute interviews for you to meet with employers during the event.

12 noon

Check-in and lunch
On arrival, please help yourself to our buffet lunch and take your seat at a table ready for the event to begin.

12.30 pm

Welcome

Speaker: Cia Kouparitsas, Chief Customer Officer, WithYouWithMe

12.35 pm

Keynote: The hidden potential of our GED learners

Speaker: Vicki Greene, President of GED Testing Service® and SVP Workforce Skills

12.50 pm

Seminar: Discover the apprenticeship model and why GED grads are stronger candidates than many other job seekers

Speaker: Tom Moore, Founder, WithYouWithMe

1.05 pm

Employer pitch: Employers will take you through their company, workplace culture and career opportunities available for GED graduates

1.25 pm

Learn about Miami Dade College’s technical apprenticeship opportunities.

Speaker: Sephora Jolicoeur, MBA, Pre-Apprenticeship Grant Coordinator

1.35 pm

Interview streams: Meet employers and interview for open roles (no experience required)

3 pm

Event conclusion

Speakers

Vicki Greene

President of GED Testing Service® and SVP Workforce Skills

Vicki Greene is the President and CEO of GED Testing Service and SVP of Americas for Pearson’s Workforce Skills Division. She works with the GED team, adult educators, GED Administrators, employers, legislators, and learners to create pathways of success to a high school equivalency credential. She is also responsible for leading the Accelerated Pathways program, a non-traditional, online college experience with a focus on building upskilling plans to meet the needs of learners.

Before these roles, Vicki served as GED Testing Service’s Vice President, where she led a wide array of functional teams, including marketing, technology, operations, sales, and public relations. She has been a member of the GED Board of Directors since 2019. Vicki also currently serves on the Creating IT Futures Foundation Board of Directors.

She holds a BA in Public Relations from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Vicki resides in Minnesota with her husband, an educator and dean of students. They have three children.

Tom Moore

Founder, WithYouWithMe

Tom Moore is an Australian military veteran and Co-founder of WithYouWithMe. Tom joined the Australian Defence Force in 2008 as an enlisted rifleman, then subsequently completed Officer training at Royal Military College Duntroon in 2012.

In 2013 he led a 60-man combat team as an Infantry Officer in Afghanistan. He was medically discharged in 2015. When Tom started seeking civilian employment, he found it difficult to secure even entry-level roles due to his perceived ‘lack of experience’. Tom discovered he wasn’t alone – and that veteran underemployment was a global issue.

In 2015, he co-founded WithYouWithMe to solve veteran underemployment, by lowering the barriers to entry into tech careers. WithYouWithMe created a technology that leverages innovative psychometric testing to identify people with the aptitude to thrive in tech-based roles who may otherwise be overlooked. It then builds their skills to be employment-ready through accredited digital skills training. The ‘social impact’ company he founded has rapidly expanded to support other under-represented groups, including neurodivergent individuals, indigenous communities and refugees.

About the GED Tech Apprenticeship™ Program

GED Testing Service have teamed up with social impact company WithYouWithMe to offer GED students free access to their world-leading psychometric and aptitude testing and accredited digital skills training across 11 technology-based career pathways.

For those who have completed their GED, we’re also offering graduates the opportunity to secure apprenticeship roles with some of the country’s leading employers, following self-paced, digital training.

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How it works

Sign up for WithYouWithMe’s Potential platform
Complete their psychometric and aptitude testing to be matched with tech careers best suited to you
Enter one of WithYouWithMe’s 11 accredited digital career pathways and complete self-paced digital training
Gain access to a network of leading employers looking to hire GED graduates and secure your first role in tech

Join the program today

Discover

Train

Deploy

Grow

Why should you upskill for a career in tech?

Rapid digitization means the demand for tech roles is far greater than the candidates available in the market.

Using innovative skills mapping and aptitude assessments, we identify individuals with the propensity to excel in tech roles and train them to be proficient and job ready.

Entry-level roles on offer range from (USD) $45K - $56K

35% of new jobs require high-level digital skills.

55% of the jobs are middle-skill positions, which require training beyond high school but not a college degree.

70% of organizations are currently working on digital transformation - and they don't have the talent they need to fill these roles.

13% of open jobs don’t require any digital skills, which means 87% of jobs do require digital skills.

There are 365K open technology roles currently in the US

GED Job and Apprenticeship Expo

March 14, 2024 | 12 - 3PM EDTAC Hotel Miami Brickell, 115 SW 8th St,Miami, FL 33130