TechForce x SkillsJam

Helping You Discover Your Skilled Career

Your career starts with the right pathway. TechForce and SkillsJam are teaming up to help you explore options, find your school, and join the nation’s largest network for future and working techs.

WHY WE’RE PARTNERING

TechForce exists to help you move from classroom to career with real support along the way. SkillsJam introduces young people to the world of skilled careers through challenges, content, and hands-on exploration. Together, we’re creating a simple path:

Discover your trade

Explore training options

Join a community that actually helps you get there

If you’re curious about becoming a tech or already on your way, this collaboration gives you more resources, more clarity, and a stronger start.

WHAT YOU CAN DO HERE

Explore Skilled Career Paths

Use SkillsJam to learn about the trades—automotive, diesel, collision, aviation, welding, HVAC, restoration, motorsports, and more. Understand what each path looks like, what skills you’ll use, and what real-world techs love about their careers.

Find Your School

Search programs, compare training options, and get a feel for what technical education looks like. Whether you’re choosing between a certificate and an associate degree or comparing multiple schools, this is where you start.

Join the TechForce Network

This is where everything comes together. When you join TechForce, you get:

  • Access to $6M in scholarships
  • A national community of students, working techs, and partners
  • Contests, giveaways, and in-kind support (tools, gear, gas cards, training)
  • Job resources, experiences, and industry opportunities
  • A place to build your career from day one

Everything we do is designed to remove barriers and help you keep pushing forward.

WHY TECHFORCE MATTERS TO YOUR JOURNEY

Exploring career paths is only step one. You need support that shows up when it counts—inside the classroom, at graduation, and in your first job. TechForce gives you:

Real help

Scholarships, grants, tools, and resources that save you money and help you stay in school.

Real connection

Events, pit tours, contests, and experiences that put you face-to-face with the industry.

Real opportunity

Job boards, apprenticeships, and partners who want to hire the next generation of techs.

Real community

Students and working techs who get it, because they’re on the same journey you are.

SkillsJam helps you discover your path. TechForce helps you take it.

FOR PARENTS, TEACHERS & MENTORS

If you’re helping a young person find direction, this partnership gives you trustworthy information and a place to send them next. SkillsJam offers exploration. TechForce offers support and structure. Together, we make the process clearer and easier to navigate.

Ready to take the next step?

Build your profile, unlock scholarships, explore schools, and get connected to the industry that keeps America moving.

ABOUT SKILLSJAM

SkillsJam introduces young people to the trades through videos, challenges, events, and digital content built to spark career exploration. They highlight real tradespeople, real careers, and real skills.

ABOUT TECHFORCE FOUNDATION

TechForce Foundation | Powering the Technician Workforce

TechForce Foundation is a national nonprofit helping students explore, train and work in skilled careers. We support 85K+ students and techs, distribute more than $6M in scholarships annually, and connect learners to experiences, jobs, and a nationwide community dedicated to their success.

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"By connecting students, instructors, industry pros and working techs, the TechForce Foundation provides unilateral support to the transportation industry’s technician recruiting needs… The administration of our Scholarships by the TechForce team has been instrumental in delivering us with a successful method to gain interest from qualified candidates as well as provide our students with additional assistance to complete their education."
Tony Farr
Ford Technical Programs Manager