Our Ten Founding Principles
- Help individuals understand potential career paths that align with their interests and skills.
- Provide workers with continuous learning opportunities.
- Increase internal promotion and mobility opportunities for workers.
- Work to eliminate discrimination in employment and training.
- Help workers displaced by automation to transition to new roles.
- Identify and hire workers who have gained skill through non-traditional routes.
- Make it easier for people, especially women, to return to the workforce after time away.
- Provide opportunities for young people to gain work experience during their education.
- Cooperate with universities, governments, non-profits, and other organizations to advance the goals of the GOF.
- Call attention to the challenges – and the potential – in workforce learning around the world.