Built on Skills | Roadtrip Nation

So many people want to grow in their career and make a better life for themselves—but they’re not sure how to connect their current skills and on-the-job experiences to their next steps. See how people who started as retail staff, customer service techs, food service employees, and other frontline workers have grown in their fields.

See people level up their careers with the right knowledge and experience.

Witness workers rewrite their career narratives to reach new peaks. Along the way, the roadtrippers discover that while barriers will always exist, so will the power to break past them.

See how people have turned limited resumes into unlimited opportunities through lifelong learning and cultivating transferable skills.

Overview
The Roadtrip
The Roadtrippers
The Route

Degrees don’t qualify people for their positions—skills do.

Through grit, tenacity, and collaboration, people have broken through barriers, challenged conventional frameworks, and achieved self-discovery and growth. Through these stories, you’ll see there are a lot of different pathways to success. So long as you can demonstrate you have the skills to succeed, formal degrees and certifications are nice-to-haves instead of must-haves on the pathway to career progress

Ready to find your career path forward?

Hear from more people building fulfilling careers along non-traditional pathways, and get tools and resources that will help you start down your own path—from exploring training and education options, to applying for jobs that put skills first!

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Insights from the Interviews

"You need to basically learn how to tell the story of who you are and what you can do—not what you’ve done, what you can do."

Rita Fennelly-Atkinson, Senior Director of Credentials, Digital Promise

"Always be willing to learn—but as far as formal schooling, just keep trying to develop your skills and the sky’s the limit."

Program and Project Management Analyst, Accenture

"Talent is everywhere—and that’s true without a degree. There are so many people out there with so much potential being overlooked just because they don’t have a degree."

Sr. Sales Development Representative, OKTA