Backed by new Guild research affirming advanced healthcare and technical roles are some of the most resilient and in-demand jobs, Navigator leverages AI to personalize learner support and ensure employers can fill business-critical roles

Guild today announced the launch of Guild Navigator, a new product within the company’s Guild product suite.

Guild Navigator is a human-managed, AI-enhanced platform that helps employers build reliable talent pipelines from education to employment. Navigator replaces the patchwork of internal efforts and third-party solutions that make it hard to reliably fill licensed and certified roles, helping companies avoid operational disruption and strengthen workforce resilience. Navigator combines credential-aligned education, hands-on training access, and cohort-based program delivery, alongside comprehensive learner support. Additionally, employers receive end-to-end program management and reporting through this robust product.

Meeting a Critical Need at a Pivotal Time for the Workforce

Skills gaps are projected to threaten $8.5 trillion in unrealized revenue by 2030. Industries that rely heavily on licensed and credentialed roles such as healthcare and manufacturing, along with roles in the skilled trades, are suffering costly skill shortages. Healthcare systems face an annual average of 1.8 million job openings across clinical roles, and manufacturers could save nearly $3 billion collectively over a 12-month period by effectively developing internal talent.

According to Guild’s Talent Resilience Index, released today in partnership with Lightcast, many of the most resilient jobs—those with sustained employer demand and less exposure to short-term volatility—fall within healthcare and manufacturing. Yet, roles such as certified nursing assistants (CNAs), medical assistants (MAs), allied health technicians, commercial drivers (CDLs), maintenance technicians, and more remain persistently hard to fill. Employers often attempt to address these gaps through highly manual apprenticeships, third-party solutions, or ad hoc partnerships with local schools. Still, these efforts limit scale and effectiveness due to:

• High administrative burden to coordinate local partnerships, cohorts, and completions
• Low visibility into learner engagement and progression
• Disconnected learner experiences, with minimal guidance or accountability
• Delay in time from learner completion to role placement or fall out before role placement
• Stagnated growth due to unclear ROI from local programs

As a result, many organizations continue to rely on costly, short-term fixes that do not solve systemic shortages, such as staffing agencies, sign-on bonuses, or temporary labor.

Guild Navigator was built to change this equation.

What Guild Navigator Does

Key features include:

• Seamless Program Design & Management: Connects employers to vetted learning pathways for in-demand roles like CNA, RadTech, Nursing, Maintenance Tech, CDLs, and skilled trades. Employers can select the learning partners that best serve their specific needs—from local institutions like community colleges to national providers. Guild facilitates the full program logistics, including participant selection, direct tuition payment at any school and job placement, removing administrative burden while maximizing employer optionality.
• Centralized Cohort-Based Program Delivery: Enables employers to centrally manage learners across multiple roles, schools, and geographic locations simultaneously. Learners receive customized guidance across their complex multi-phase journeys, including through coursework, hands-on training and clinical rotations, certification, and job placement.
• Comprehensive Human Support, Enhanced by AI: Provides dedicated coaching and weekly progress check-ins to help learners navigate their personalized success plans. These plans leverage machine learning to integrate signals from learners, employers and learning activity to address the primary areas that cause program failures - from payment obstacles to academic guidance. Simultaneously, the product provides early warnings to employers and Guild coaches, triggering intervention when learners show signs of trouble.
• Configurable Reporting & Workflow Automation: Delivers real-time data visibility into learner progress, program completion rates, and budget utilization across workforce development initiatives. Automated reporting delivers progress summaries to relevant stakeholders, including key milestones like program completion. This eliminates manual coordination across dispersed populations while ensuring timely interventions and seamless talent pipeline management.
• Integration Ready for Talent Systems & AI Agents: Bridges insights with a capability designed for integration of data and workflow notifications into an organization’s workforce systems so teams can use data and insights to build AI agents for talent acquisition, clinical management, and more.

“Guild’s approach has always been rooted in listening to employers and learners, and translating those insights into innovation. Employers made it clear that they are struggling with fragmented, unscalable solutions for licensed and certified roles. Building predictable pipelines has been one of the most stubborn and complex challenges in their efforts to build workforce resilience. With Navigator, we've created a solution that bridges the gap, combining local training access, wraparound learner support, and employer visibility,” said Rohan Chandran, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Guild. “By allowing for integration of Guild’s rich data into AI systems and enhancing our human-led learner support with AI-driven personalization, we’re delivering stronger outcomes at scale. This underscores Guild’s commitment to product innovation and market leadership in meeting employers’ end-to-end talent development needs.”

Early Successes

Early access partners for Guild Navigator have already seen its potential to transform local talent pipelines. Three organizations, OSF Healthcare, Children’s Nebraska, and Good Jobs Birmingham, are currently leveraging the product to streamline program operations, improve learner outcomes, and close staffing gaps more predictably.

"Guild has been a true partner in helping us tackle a challenge that has historically felt impossible to solve. Before Navigator, scaling local talent programs felt like sprinting through fog. Now, we have the visibility and structure to know exactly where learners are in their journey and the confidence that we can scale without burning out our team,” said Erin Pearson, Talent Outreach Strategist at Children’s Nebraska. “What used to be a patchwork of manual processes and heavy administrative lift is now a streamlined system with real visibility into learner progress and outcomes that allow us to see how our investment is converting into job-ready talent where we need it most.”

Guild Navigator is available for early access customers now, and will be generally available in early 2026. To learn more and reserve your spot on the waitlist, please visit, guild.com/guild-navigator.

About Guild

Guild partners with the country’s most innovative employers, including Chipotle, Target, Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton, Spectrum, PepsiCo, Tyson, and more, to build the talent needed for today and a resilient workforce for tomorrow. Guild helps employers identify, develop, and mobilize internal talent — enabling workers to gain skills for in-demand roles and companies to stay agile. By connecting employees to real-world learning, coaching, and career support, and providing companies with actionable talent insights, Guild transforms all talent into high-impact contributors and positions companies for long-term, sustainable growth. For more information, visit https://www.guild.com.

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