01 / START TODAY
Self-paced Academy
Start the Go To Market Career Academy in MissionXP and work through lessons and missions on your schedule.
- When
- Available now · your own pace
- Support
- Connection with the re:WORK community
- Cost
- Free to participate
OUR PROGRAMS · RE:WORK TRAINING
Build your skills.
Grow your circle.
Make your move.
The Go To Market Career Academy.
Learn to run your job search as a business of one. Our free Academy brings sales strategy and social capital together: know your value, find the right opportunities, build trust, and follow through.
A free, remote program from a Chicago nonprofit, serving jobseekers across the U.S.
Put the work into practice.
ONE ACADEMY. TWO WAYS TO LEARN.
Start now.
Build from there.
The same practical approach, with different ways to participate. Choose a self-paced start or express interest in a coached cohort.
02 / LEARN WITH A COHORT
Quarterly cohort
Join an eight-week experience with structured instruction, coaching, and peer learning as you put your strategy into action.
- When
- New cohorts begin once per quarter
- Support
- Coaching and structured peer learning
- Cost
- Free to participate
Your first step can be self-paced. You still get community support and may be considered for a cohort based on your commitment to the process. The team confirms cohort placement, dates, and live-session expectations.
Looking for local career support? Explore free job training for Chicago jobseekers, including recent graduates and people between jobs.
SOCIAL CAPITAL MEETS SALES STRATEGY
Be your own
business development rep.
You bring the experience. Build a strategy that helps people understand its value.
Business and sales development representatives—BDRs and SDRs—research prospects, start conversations, and develop opportunities. In the Academy, you apply that discipline to your own job search.
Social capital means the trust and relationships you build with people who know your work. You practice demonstrating your abilities, contributing to conversations, and following through.
Sales is a common path, and these skills travel. Most participants who land jobs enter sales; others apply what they learn to roles in other fields. The Academy teaches a transferable job-search approach, alongside the qualifications your target role requires.
FROM LEARNING TO ACTION
Skills you practice.
Habits you can keep.
Research, communicate, organize, and follow through. These topics connect your learning to a real career search.
Personal brand & value
Connect your experience to the work you want to do, and explain what you can contribute.
Employer & role research
Identify relevant companies, roles, and people so your effort has a clear direction.
AI-assisted preparation
Use AI to support research and preparation. Check its output and keep your work truthful.
Relevant outreach
Write concise, personalized messages with a clear reason to connect and an appropriate ask.
Professional conversations
Practice starting conversations, asking useful questions, and listening for what matters.
Rejection & objections
Learn from a response, adjust your approach, and keep working with perspective.
Follow-up & pipeline
Record conversations, track opportunities, and make the next step clear.
Goals & progress
Set activity goals and use evidence to see where your approach needs attention.
Time & consistency
Make room for learning, research, outreach, and follow-through in your calendar.
Closing & momentum
Bring conversations toward a clear decision or next step, and keep your search moving.
Keep pursuing opportunities as you learn. Apply to suitable open roles while you research employers and build relationships. A referral or internal contact is not a prerequisite to apply.
BUILT BY RE:WORK TRAINING
MissionXP.
Where you put
the work to work.
Your learning and your job search, connected.
MissionXP is the platform we created to deliver the Academy and help you organize your career campaign. It brings lessons, missions, relationships, and opportunities into one place.
Explore MissionXPLearn and show your work.
Move through lessons, complete missions, and use feedback to improve.
Keep relationships in view.
Record your outreach, professional conversations, and next steps.
Manage your opportunities.
Track activity and progress so you can decide where to focus next.
FOR WORKFORCE ORGANIZATIONS, EMPLOYERS & FUNDERS
Help more people
make their next move.
Connect your support with practical learning, professional relationships, and consistent action.
If your organization supports jobseekers, develops talent, or funds economic mobility, explore how re:WORK’s Academy and community could complement your work.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Start with one move.
Begin the self-paced Academy today, or tell us you’re interested in a quarterly cohort.
Start the free Academy Register cohort interest
Cohort placement, referrals, and employment are not guaranteed.