Lenders
Current Financial Literacy and Career Readiness Programs are not meeting student needs.
Our unique solution provides:
A high-engagement, incentive-based approach focused on a reduction of student loan interest rate for completing financial literacy certification and job readiness success steps.
The first integrated, virtual financial literacy and career readiness platform for students, including a full suite of career readiness resources and employment opportunities.
Deep, cross-lender analytics on candidate profiles, completion rates, employers, and outcomes.
Lenders Optimize Your Success
- Create goodwill – be a part of the solution
- Reduce risk
- Create customer loyalty
- Ability to offer more products
- Attract new customers
Lenders Incentivizes Throughputs & Results
- Offer a reduction in interest rate for completion of program
- Borrowers will complete “success steps” in financial literacy, pass exam and become certified
- Borrowers will complete “success steps” in career readiness and increase opportunities for internships and employment
- Program is flexible, one to four years depending on borrowers’ status
- Community college, four-year institution, graduate school and alumni
- Year-round program that takes only two to three hours per semester/term
Product Snapshot & Features
- Success Steps are methodically arranged and interactive
- Thousands of internship/job postings and proactive employer recruiting
- Accessible via multiple devices
- Access to a Resource Library
- Evaluation and metrics on financial literacy and career readiness throughputs and outcomes
Positive Correlations & Outcomes
- Students who complete a degree or certificate are 20 percent more likely to begin paying down their loan principal each year after leaving campus while earning 66 percent more than non-completers (Third Way Think Tank)
- Financially literate students have higher retention rates in school (National Financial Education Council)
- Student internships increase employability by 23% (National Assocatiation of Colleges and Employers)
- Higher completion rates in college have a direct correlation with lower default rates (Inside Higher Ed)