Aquent Gymnasium Wins ASA Elevate Award — Again!

The American Staffing Association has honored Aquent Gymnasium with a 2020 Elevate Award. This is Gymnasium’s second win for its forward-thinking work-based learning programs.

With the support of Aquent, one of the world’s leading creative staffing agencies, Gymnasium provides practical training that’s accessible to everyone and bridges the gap between education and opportunity.

Gymnasium’s free, streamable courses cover topics such as web design and development, user experience, accessibility, career skills, prototyping, and content creation. These courses, informed by client and industry data, are developed by experts in the web community to equip students with in-demand skills.

Course projects make an excellent addition to any portfolio. Full Courses include 3 to 6 hours of video, quizzes, assignments, a final exam, and a shareable certificate when successfully completed. Gym Shorts include about 1 hour of video, a final exam, and a shareable badge when completed.

These records and credentials are integrated with Aquent’s talent management system to assist and benefit recruiters in their search. This has helped Aquent to provide skilled talent for placements and quality training to upskill clients’ own teams. To date, hundreds of newly-certified talent have been placed in roles.

Since receiving its first Elevate Award in 2018, Gymnasium has gained 41,526 new students and issued a total of 1,753 badges and 5,300 certificates. It also debuted a new content format known as Take 5 tutorials — free videos that teach practical skills in 5 minutes. Since launching in October 2019, Take 5 tutorials have been viewed over 28,210 times (amounting to 1,143+ hours of streaming.)

Over 1,000 new students join Gymnasium every month. Since launching in 2013, it has reached over 130,000 students from 188 countries. Gymnasium has seen over 125,000 course enrollments and issued over 12,000 certificates and badges. Its course lessons have been streamed well over 1 million times.

Learn more about what makes Gymnasium award-worthy at thegymnasium.com.