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July 9, 2020 - In the Arena

New Coalition Aims to Boost Economic Mobility for America’s Displaced Frontline Workforce

The SkillUp Coalition brings together leading training and education providers, employers, technology companies, job readiness nonprofits, and philanthropies to upskill workers into in-demand jobs at scale American workers who have been laid off or furloughed in the wake of COVID-19…

June 17, 2020 - In the Arena

Bloomberg: David Westin interviews Arena founder/CEO Michael Rosenbaum on using data science to increase economic mobility, reduce bias

on Balance of Power podcast [36:28] June 12, 2020 DAVID WESTIN: US jobless claims came down a bit but remain over 1.5 million and the Federal Reserve sees unemployment at or near 10% the end of the year, begging the question…

April 3, 2020 - In the Arena

Arena’s TALENT DISCOVERY Connects the Newly Unemployed to Essential Jobs in Healthcare

In countering the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, hospitals and post-acute care sites desperately need more people to work at the front lines. In addition to the credentialed RN/MD/tech roles, there are non-certificated jobs that play critical roles in caring for the…

September 17, 2018 - A[i]rena

Meet the Team Series — Cyrus David edition

When considering a new job, people wonder, “Who will I work with? How will I be able to grow with them? Do I want to work with them?” We have designed our interview process to help answer these questions among…

July 19, 2018 - A[i]rena

A post-mortem at Arena

A problem that led to an innovation An accidental deploymentOne morning, one of our engineers intended to deploy code to our stagingenvironment, but chose an incorrect build plan and deployed it to the production environment. The deployed code came from an older branch…

November 13, 2017 - A[i]rena

Responsible Data Science

Why we Need Ethics in Industry By Niels Bantilan As someone who came into the tech industry from the public health field, I feel like I naturally seek purpose and social impact in my work. What does this mean to me…