Four Recommendation Lanes

Right for you. Today.

Every LER holder gets recommendations across four distinct lanes — each grounded in real registry records, personalized to what's already in the wallet.

Opportunities

Jobs, WBL, internships, apprenticeships, co-ops, fellowships and more — every form of paid work-based opportunity.

  • Jobs & career-track roles
  • Registered apprenticeships
  • Internships & co-ops
  • Fellowships
  • Work-based learning
Learning Paths

Sequenced, stackable programs to close the gap to your goal.

  • Fastest path
  • Highest ROI path
  • Best jobs-projection path
  • Lowest-cost path
Careers

Right-fit destinations, with companion app Right Fit First Try.

  • Now-eligible occupations
  • 1-credential-away roles
  • 5-year destinations
  • Right-fit by interest, strength & LER
Services

Wraparound supports that make completion possible.

  • SNAP · TANF · WIC
  • Childcare subsidies (CCDF)
  • Transportation assistance
  • Housing & emergency aid
A LER that just sits there is a transcript. A LER that recommends what's next is a career engine. — Hyper-personalized Recommendations product principle
Recommended Opportunities

Jobs, WBL, internships, apprenticeships, co-ops and more.

We don't just match jobs. We match opportunities — because work-based learning, apprenticeships, internships and fellowships are real career steps too.

Every recommendation is skills-based, grounded in a real registry record, and ranked against your LER.

Skills-based. Match-scored. Verified.

  • ✓ Skills-based matching — your LER skills mapped to opportunity requirements
  • ✓ Match ratings — see how strong each fit is
  • ✓ One-click apply — your LER becomes the application
  • ✓ Filter by mode — open posts, closed applications, descriptions

Every opportunity recommendation links to a verified registry record — published by an employer, sponsor or intermediary on the LER.me Talent Marketplace.

⭐ Top 3 opportunities for you
Industrial Welder — Apprentice
94% match
Apprenticeship · 2 yrs · $22/hr · 12 mi · OBv3 issued
Production Welder — Co-op
88% match
Co-op · 6 mo · $19/hr · 8 mi
Welding Quality Inspector — Internship
82% match
Internship · 12 wk · $17/hr · 22 mi
Recommended Learning Paths

The fastest, the highest-ROI, the best-projected.

We rank learning paths four ways — pick the one that fits your priority. Every step is a registry record. Every credential lands in your LER.

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Fastest Path

The shortest sequence of stackable credentials to your goal occupation. Time-to-paycheck is the optimization target.

Sample 12-wk Welding Cert → 6-mo apprenticeship → entry-level welder (8 months total)
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Highest ROI Path

Best wage-to-cost ratio. We rank paths by total cost vs. expected lifetime earnings increase.

Sample Free industry-aligned cert → $0 cost → +$24K/yr median wage lift = ∞× ROI
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Best Jobs Projection

Paths that lead to occupations with the strongest 10-year BLS jobs growth — futures-friendly choices.

Sample Cybersecurity stack — +28.5% growth, +5,210 openings/yr (BLS 2024–2034)

Plus a Lowest-Cost Path, a Best-Local-Demand Path, and a Family-Sustaining-Wage Path — pick what matters most to you.

Recommended Careers

Right fit, first try.

Career recommendations cover three horizons — what you're already eligible for, what's one credential away, and where you could be in five years. Powered by your LER and our companion app, Right Fit First Try.

📈 Career horizons
Now eligible
Welder · SOC 51-4121
$48,940/yr · 12 openings near you
1 credential away
Welding Supervisor · SOC 51-1011
$67,200/yr · OSHA 30 needed
5-year destination
Welding Inspector · SOC 17-2199
$78,400/yr · +6% jobs (BLS 2034)
Right-Fit Score — interests & strengths matched via Right Fit First Try

Three horizons + right fit.

  • ✓ Now eligible — occupations your current LER already qualifies you for
  • ✓ 1 credential away — fastest career upgrade with a single credential
  • ✓ 5-year destination — where you could be with a stackable plan
  • Right-fit score — interests & strengths from Right Fit First Try
  • ✓ Regional wage data — BLS state-level wages where available
Try Right Fit First Try
Recommended Services

Wraparound supports — proactively recommended.

Programs and jobs aren't the whole picture. Childcare, transportation, food, housing — the wraparound services that let learners actually finish what they start. We surface the ones you're likely eligible for, before you have to ask.

Food assistance
SNAP · TANF · WIC
Eligibility auto-checked from your LER
Childcare
CCDF subsidies
State child care voucher programs
Transportation
Vouchers · transit · gas cards
Local WIOA & community programs
Housing
Emergency aid · stable housing
HUD, state & local resources
Health
Medicaid · CHIP · ACA
Coverage & enrollment guidance
Other supports
Utility assistance · legal aid · 211
From local 211 partner registries

Service recommendations are sourced from registered providers in the LER.me Credential Registry — including state, county, tribal and community-based programs.

How recommendations work

Your LER + the Registry. No magic. No black boxes.

Recommendations are generated by matching your LER (programs, skills, experiences, demographics) against the LER.me Credential Registry. Every recommendation cites a real registry record — no hallucinations, no guesses.

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Your LER is the input

Programs, skills, experiences and (optionally) interests & strengths from Right Fit First Try — all from your wallet, with your consent.

2

The Registry is the catalog

Programs, occupations, opportunities and services — all standards-aligned (CTDL, O*NET, BLS, CIP, SOC, NAICS) and continuously refreshed by the AI catalog parser.

3

Match, score, explain

Skills-based matching with a transparent score and a "why this" rationale. Every recommendation is a real, claimable, registry-backed record.

Coast-to-Coast Grounding Data

Solid aggregate grounding data = better AI everywhere it touches.

LLMs hallucinate when grounding data is sparse, inconsistent, or local. The LER.me Credential Registry assembles a coast-to-coast, standards-aligned data layer — programs, occupations, opportunities, services, credentials, eligibility — across all 50 states. That layer makes every AI experience that touches it more accurate: homegrown agency tools, state-developed solutions, and the big GenAI vendors alike.

When data is fragmented, an agent finds some and guesses the rest — instead of looking it up. Without a grounding aggregate source, "looking it up" isn't an option, so the agent's only fallback is plausible-sounding fiction.

Local
Homegrown WDB & college tools
Pull registry data via API. Ground every chatbot answer in real records.
State
State-developed marketplaces
Run state-branded experiences on the same registry every other state shares.
National
GenAI platforms
ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini · Perplexity · Copilot · Meta AI · Mistral — all crawl the registry, all cite real records.

When a learner asks any AI assistant — whether it's a county chatbot, a state-branded tool, or ChatGPT — about a real program, the answer can be grounded, cited, and verifiable. The same registry powers all of them.

The LER.me Ecosystem

Where recommendations fit.

Hyper-personalized Recommendations is one piece of a connected platform — the credential registries that feed it, the wallet that holds the inputs, the marketplace that surfaces the opportunities, and the case-management approach that helps along the way.

The catalog

Credential Registries

The data behind every recommendation — programs, occupations, opportunities and services.

Visit Credential Registries
The input

My LER Wallet

The citizen-owned record that powers personalized recommendations.

Visit Learning & Employment Records
Career fit

Right Fit First Try

The companion app for career fit — interests, strengths and right-fit scoring.

Visit Right Fit First Try
Compare programs

Learner Career Services

Side-by-side program comparison with proprietary scoring (Value, Employability, ROI).

Visit Learner Career Services
Pay for it

Workforce Eligibility

40+ federal & state aid eligibility calculators — Workforce Pell, WIOA, Pell, GI Bill and more.

Visit Workforce Eligibility
Get help

Workforce Care Team

Optional human support — career coaches and case managers, modeled on clinical care.

Visit Workforce Care Team
By the numbers

Personalized at scale.

4
Lanes

Opportunities · Paths · Careers · Services

6+
Path-ranking modes

Fastest · Highest ROI · Best Projection · Lowest Cost · Local · Family-Sustaining

100%
Registry-backed

Every rec links to a real record — no hallucinations

$0
For learners

Free forever — your LER, your recommendations

Explore the ecosystem

Sibling LER platforms

Each LER.me promo site goes deep on one slice of the workforce ecosystem. These are closely related to this one — same data, same wallet, different front door.

LearningAndEmploymentRecords.com

Learning & Employment Records

Your citizen-owned LER wallet — every program, skill and experience you've earned.

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LearnerCareerServices.com

Learner Career Services

Consumer-choice training search — find training that actually pays.

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LERTalentMarketplace.com

LER Talent Marketplace

The connected workforce ecosystem — one foundation, seven apps.

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