Shamrck - Workforce Development for the Future of Work

Shamrck is an internship management platform to help businesses increase talent pipelines and workforce development by engaging high school students. We have combined artificial intelligence and education to create a platform that can easily be the conduit to combine workforce development efforts nationwide as we connect data collection and training across industries. We source, train, and manage projects on the platform to save businesses time and money when engaging with temporary talent in internships. By connecting students with area businesses for internship opportunities, this gives students an opportunity to explore career paths before they settle into one while providing valuable work products for the businesses they work with. Businesses are able to engage the workforce in a way that showcases available talent and helps them work with schools to directly provide training opportunities. With these project-based internships that operate for 1 day to 3 months, students are further prepared for the growth of the future of work: the gig economy. Businesses are able to see how working with freelance-type opportunities can strengthen their bottom lines and students are prepared for how work can potentially change in the near future. We aim to solve the education to industry gap by providing schools with an easier way to connect and prepare their students for the work ahead. According to McKinsey, the gap has cost us $2.3 Trillion in GDP because businesses have to spend significant time training and even retraining the workforce. Over $300 billion is spent annually on workforce development to upskill the workforce. We feel that if we are able to impact the needs of the workforce sooner by integrating with the current career and technical education curriculum at the school level, we can close this gap quickly. This opens up the opportunity for marginalized communities to have access to resources and helps businesses increase diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. It's a very sociological view on structure and agency that we believe will respond well to the collective effort of viewing workforce development as an ecosystem. We plan to increase the skills of the workforce by developing it sooner, training it faster, and integrating it into the business world ready to take on the challenges of tomorrow.