Your programs should prepare students for the jobs that exist today.
RelevEd uses real-time labor market data and AI-driven skills analysis to show exactly where your academic programs align with employer needs — and where the gaps are costing your students opportunities.
Built on Authoritative Open Data
Higher education has a skills alignment crisis.
Academic programs evolve on multi-year cycles. Employer skill requirements shift quarterly. The gap between what institutions teach and what employers need is growing — and students are caught in the middle.
“Breaking job roles down into required skill sets can allow employers to better understand viable job transition pathways and make more informed decisions on reskilling and upskilling.”— World Economic Forum, Global Skills Taxonomy Adoption Toolkit, 2025
From curriculum to career —
measured, mapped, and actionable.
RelevEd provides a continuous, data-driven feedback loop between what your programs teach and what the labor market demands.
Not opinions.
Evidence.
RelevEd’s alignment framework is built on the same data infrastructure used by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and leading workforce researchers.
Built for the people shaping the future of education and work.
Provosts, deans, and program directors who need evidence — not anecdotes.
Whether you’re preparing for accreditation review, justifying a new program investment, or responding to employer feedback, RelevEd gives you the data to make the case.
- Program-level alignment dashboards mapped to real O*NET occupational skill requirements
- Quarterly skill gap reports with prioritized curriculum recommendations
- AI-powered syllabus analysis that measures what your courses actually teach
- Peer institution benchmarking across enrollment-weighted alignment scores
- Labor market demand data for strategic program investment decisions
Talent leaders who want to shape the pipeline — not just compete for graduates.
Stop hoping that new hires arrive work-ready. RelevEd gives you a direct channel to communicate your skill requirements to partner institutions and track curriculum alignment over time.
- Define role-specific skill requirements and share them directly with education partners
- Track how well partner programs align to your evolving workforce needs
- Quarterly skill surveys that automatically update alignment scores
- Identify the institutions producing graduates with the skills you need most
- Reduce time-to-productivity for new hires through better upstream alignment
Built by someone who has lived on both sides of the problem.
TJ Rains brings over two decades of higher education leadership — including CIO and Chief Transformation Officer roles at multiple institutions — combined with deep expertise in workforce technology and organizational change.
His doctoral research produced the Higher Education Leadership Triad (HELT) model, based on interviews with university presidents who navigated institutional disruption. That research, combined with his current role as Managing Director for Higher Education at Workday, gave him a front-row seat to the skills alignment crisis — and the conviction to build the solution.
RelevEd is not a theory. It’s the platform TJ wished he had at every institution he served.
Ready to see where your programs stand?
Schedule a complimentary alignment assessment for your institution. We’ll map your programs to real labor market data and show you exactly where the opportunities are.