Wiley Renames its Industry-Leading Talent Development Solution “mthree” to Wiley Edge

Wiley (NYSE: WLY), a global leader in research and education, today announced the renaming of its fast-growing talent development solution, mthree, to Wiley Edge. Wiley Edge works with employers to find and train top talent for their most difficult-to-fill jobs. Since the acquisition in January 2020, Wiley has more than tripled its portfolio of corporate partners and doubled the number of college graduates trained and placed in technology, business, and banking roles with multinational corporations. The renaming further integrates Wiley Edge into the company’s career-connected education portfolio that is focused on helping universities and corporations close the widening skills and talent gaps in the labor market.

Seventy-one percent of CEOs anticipate the skills and labor shortage will be one of this year’s greatest business disrupters, according to the Winter 2022 Fortune/Deloitte CEO survey. This shortage will cost businesses trillions of dollars by the end of the decade. Meanwhile job openings in the technology sector nearly doubled in 2021 but the applicant pool declined by nearly a quarter since 2019. With many of these jobs left unfilled, organizations are struggling to compete and increasingly turning to innovative talent development solutions such as Wiley Edge.

“Our growing roster of leading global clients knows that success in today’s fast-moving digital economy requires skilled tech talent that can hit the ground running and have long-term impact,” said Todd Zipper, Wiley’s executive vice president and general manager of University Services and Talent Development. “The new Wiley Edge name represents what we do for our corporate partners and for emerging talent everywhere – we give them a meaningful edge by using the power of education to connect great people to great 21^st-century jobs.”

Wiley Edge provides employers with a distinct edge in utilizing emerging talent by harnessing a hire-train-deploy model that finds college grads and equips them with in-demand skill sets to meet the highly specific needs of individual corporations. After spending 3-12 weeks at the Wiley Edge Academy, graduates are deployed to one of Wiley’s corporate clients for 12-24 months, after which they transition into full-time roles with the hard, soft, and company-specific skills needed to succeed. Wiley’s client list includes many of the world’s largest and most respected corporations.