Waste Management Announces First-of-its-Kind ‘Your Tomorrow’ Program Providing No-Cost Education to Employees, with Plann...
May 13 2021 - 4:39PM
Business Wire
Two-day Hiring
Events on May 21-22 Aim to Hire Drivers and Technicians Across
North America
Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM) is holding Career Day events
across North America on May 21-22 aimed at hiring essential
frontline driver and technician positions. The company is rolling
out a range of new employee benefits from flexible work schedules,
sign-on bonuses and a new education and upskilling benefit program,
Your Tomorrow, in collaboration with Guild Education. Your Tomorrow
is a first-of-its-kind program that provides WM employees, as well
as their eligible dependents, the opportunity to choose from a full
range of education options, including earning a college degree, at
no cost to the employee.
The WM Career Day events, designed to proactively address talent
needs, offer candidates the opportunity to interview and
potentially receive same-day offers to start their careers with the
WM family. Interview spots can be reserved in advance at
https://careers.wm.com/wmevents, and walk-ins will be accepted.
Appropriate COVID protocols will be in place for these events.
WM Your Tomorrow offers nearly 36,000 full-time U.S. employees
access to more than 170 fully-funded programs, including
undergraduate and graduate degrees, short-form technology and
business certificate programs, and high school completion. Later
this year, the company plans to expand this offering to
benefits-eligible dependents, including nearly 34,000 children and
spouses, beginning with enrollment in 2022 educational programs
making WM one of the first employers to extend education and
upskilling opportunities at this scale.
“At WM, we’re an innovative people-first organization that cares
deeply about the careers, economic mobility and wellbeing of our
team members,” said Tamla Oates-Forney, Chief People Officer,
Waste Management. “Your Tomorrow supports the reskilling and
retention of existing talent, while also helping to attract new
talent, to equip the business with a skilled workforce for the
future and further position WM as an employer of choice. It will
soon help our team members with the support needed to provide for
their dependents’ education. Through our Career Day events, we hope
to attract new team members that want to evolve their career and
will take advantage of this new benefit program.”
“We’re excited to partner with WM to offer education and
upskilling opportunities to their employees, including the
frontline essential workers who help us maintain a sustainable
future in our communities,” said Rachel Carlson, CEO &
Co-Founder, Guild Education. “By being the first company to
extend the upskilling offering to employees and their families in
this way, WM and their leaders are game-changers. They’re setting
the standard for how organizations can creatively invest not only
in their employees, but also those employees’ children and
families, in a way that ties to their company strategy."
Your Tomorrow includes education and training programs that
directly tie to the business’s needs and map to internal career
pathways, focusing primarily on business, technology, science and
mathematics. These areas include data analytics, digital
transformation and systems thinking to help team members upskill
and reskill. Learning providers include eCornell, Pathstream, Paul
Quinn College, Purdue University Global, Southern New Hampshire
University, University of Arizona and others.
About Waste Management
Waste Management, based in Houston, Texas, is the leading
provider of comprehensive waste management environmental services
in North America. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides
collection, transfer, disposal services, and recycling and resource
recovery. It is also a leading developer, operator and owner of
landfill gas-to-energy facilities in the United States. The
Company’s customers include residential, commercial, industrial,
and municipal customers throughout North America. To learn more
information about Waste Management, visit www.wm.com.
About Guild Education
Denver-based Guild Education is on a mission to unlock
opportunity for America's workforce through education and
upskilling. Guild is a certified B-Corp, founded to bridge the gap
between education and employment for the 88M working adults in the
US in need of upskilling for the future of work. Guild's
industry-leading technology platform allows the nation's largest
employers — including Walmart, The Walt Disney Company and Chipotle
— to offer strategic education and upskilling to their employees,
connecting them to a learning ecosystem of the nation's best
universities and learning providers, with tuition paid by the
company. Guild serves working learners from all 50 states,
including 54% who are students of color and 56% who are female.
Guild's payments and technology platform, curated learning
marketplace, and advanced education and career coaching come
together to help working adult learners advance in their education
and career, debt-free. For more information, visit
www.guildeducation.com.
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