What is Learner Career Services?

Learner Career Services is the consumer-facing companion app at LER.me — also available at ConsumerChoiceTraining.com. It helps learners compare training programs side-by-side with verified outcomes, costs, completion rates, wages, jobs projections and aid eligibility, then enroll directly. It's connected to the LER.me Talent Marketplace, Credential Registries and the learner's LER wallet.

What does Consumer Choice Training give me?

Transparent comparison: every program shows verified outcomes (completion rate, time to complete, wages at exit, jobs projections), full cost (tuition, fees, total cost of attendance), and what aid you qualify for (Workforce Pell, traditional Pell, WIOA, GI Bill, state grants). You see the data, you make the choice.

How does this connect to my LER wallet?

When you complete a program selected through Learner Career Services, the credential is issued directly into your LER.me wallet as an OBv3 or CLR 2.0 verifiable credential. The wallet then helps you discover the next opportunity — jobs, apprenticeships, internships and stackable next-step programs.

Is Learner Career Services free?

Yes. Learner Career Services is free for learners, like every other LER.me citizen-facing app. Browse, compare, check eligibility, apply — at no cost.

Learner Career Services | Consumer Choice Training

Four Program Categories

Four lanes to a paycheck.

Every program in Consumer Choice Training belongs to one of four lanes — clearly tagged, clearly counted, clearly comparable.

Highest Value

State & Industry Approved

63,291

High Value Programs

43,382

Dual Enrollment

5,773

Institution Partners

211

Sources Linked

High Quality Free

Industry Aligned & Recognized

158

Programs Shown

Platforms

137

Fastest Path

81/100

Avg Employability

Stackable Credentials

Ladders to Higher Value

Pathways Shown

3-Stage Stacks

5-Stage Bridges

Industries

Apprenticeships

Registered & Industry-Recognized

4,496

Programs

States

Industries

$63,593

Avg Wage

Live counts on Consumer Choice Training — refreshed continuously by the AI catalog parser.

Side-by-Side Comparison

No more guessing. Just the facts.

Pick any Consumer Choice program incl. ETPL, Industry-recognized or Apprenticeship. Stack two, three, or ten next to each other. Every number is verified, sourced, and current.

Compare Programs

Welding pathway · Sample state

Side-by-side

Metric

Program A

Program B

Type

AAS Degree

Short-Term Cert

Time

24 months

12 weeks

Total cost

$8,940

$1,540

Completion

87%

78%

Median wage

$54,200

$48,940

Workforce Pell

✗ Too long

✓ Eligible · 8–15 wks

Net cost to you

$1,290

Proprietary Gold

Five compare scores you won't find anywhere else.

Blended Score

60% BLS occupation demand + 40% sponsor strength

Employability Score

Employer signal × hands-on × portability × time-to-value

120

Value Score

Cost (40) + Duration (30) + Dual Enrollment (20) + ROI (30)

Employability Outlook

Growth (40) + Openings (40) + Scale (20)

47×

ROI (Wage/Cost)

BLS median wage ÷ total program tuition cost

Every score is published with its full rubric. No black boxes — wage data sourced from BLS OEWS, growth from BLS Employment Projections (2024–2034), state wages where available.

Workforce dollars are too important to spend on opaque catalogs and marketing copy. Consumer Choice Training puts every metric in the open — so learners can see exactly what they're signing up for. — Learner Career Services product principle

Verified Outcomes

Four numbers that matter most.

Every program publishes the same four outcome metrics — sourced from federal datasets, state reporting, and provider attestations crosswalked through the AI catalog parser.

Completion rate

Cohort-based completion percentage — what fraction of learners who started actually finished, sourced from IPEDS and state SLDS.

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Time to complete

Median months from enrollment to credential — calendar reality, not catalog promises. Helps learners plan around work, childcare and life.

Wages at exit

Median earnings in the first year after completion — sourced from BLS OEWS, state UI wage records and program-level reporting.

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Jobs projection

10-year jobs outlook for the aligned occupation — straight from BLS Employment Projections, regionalized where data allows.

Voice & Chat Assistant

Ask. Compare. Decide. Out loud or in chat.

The Consumer Choice assistant turns the whole catalog into a conversation. Ask in plain language — by voice or by text — and get personalized program comparisons, pathway suggestions and next steps grounded in the LER.me Credential Registry.

Career choice, in conversation.

✓ Voice or chat — speak it or type it; the assistant works either way
✓ Personalized to your LER — answers reflect what you've already earned
✓ Grounded in the registry — every recommendation cites a real program, no hallucinations
✓ Compare on the fly — "stack these three" or "what's faster than this one"
✓ Available 24/7 — career questions don't keep business hours
✓ Multilingual — answer back in the language the question was asked in

When the assistant suggests a program, it links straight into the side-by-side comparison — proprietary scores, outcomes, pathways and all.

Consumer Choice Assistant

● Online · Voice & chat · Multilingual

Compare AWS Cloud Practitioner against A+ — which has better ROI?

AWS Cloud Practitioner wins on ROI: 63.3× wage/cost vs. A+ at 18.2×. Value Score 120 vs. 110. Median wage $92,980/yr (state) vs. $58,120/yr.

AWSA+

ROI63.3×18.2× Value Score120110 Cost$1,470$3,200

📊 Open full compare

What's the job outlook in my state?

Cyber occupations are +28.5% by 2034 (BLS Employment Projections), +5,210 openings/yr. Cloud Practitioner roles are −4.2%. If long-term jobs growth matters, look at the Applied Cyber Security path — Employability Outlook 64.

🎙 Or just say "Hey LER, stack three welding programs by ROI"

Pathsmith Durable-Skill Framework

Not a generic LLM answer. A proprietary, chunk-grounded one.

Behind every conversation, the Pathsmith durable-skill framework is speaking through the LLM — grounded in real O*NET data and proprietary occupation chunks.

When the assistant cites "explaining procedures," "evaluating symptoms," or "monitor patient condition" for a nursing pathway — those are real occupation-specific manifestations pulled from the chunker, not LLM guesses. Every answer is backed by a registry record and a domain mapping.

Four primary domains

Communication

e.g. "explaining procedures"

Critical Thinking

e.g. "evaluating symptoms"

Mindfulness

e.g. "monitor patient condition"

Character

e.g. occupation-specific traits

Pulled from chunker records + proprietary O*NET crosswalks · Sample: nursing occupations

Career Pathways

See where this program leads — not just where it ends.

Stackable Pathways. Where you are now. What's next on the ladder. Where you could be in five years — with wages, jobs and credentials at every step.

Now

Welding Tech — AAS

2 yrs · $0 net cost · 87% completion

→

+2 yrs

Industrial Welder — Apprentice

$22/hr · 2,000 hrs · OBv3 issued

→

+5 yrs

Welding Inspector / Engineer

SOC 17-2199 · $78,400 median · +6% jobs

A program isn't a destination. It's a step. Show me the next two.

Connected to the Talent Marketplace

Browse here. Apply here. The credential lands in your wallet.

Learner Career Services is the consumer-facing front door to the LER.me Talent Marketplace, powered by the LER.me Credential Registry — the same source of truth that feeds case managers, providers and employers. Every program is a registry record. Every credential is LER-interoperable — OBv3 and CLR 2.0 native, portable across systems. Every wallet unlocks new opportunities.

Source of truth

Credential Registries

The data behind every program comparison — verified, standards-aligned, and refreshed continuously by the AI catalog parser.

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Where credentials land

My LER Wallet

Complete a program, and the credential is issued straight into your LER wallet as a verifiable OBv3 / CLR 2.0 credential — yours, forever.

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Optional support

Career Care Team

Want a human helper? Career coaches and case managers are available through the Career Care Team — a coordinated case-management approach modeled on clinical care.

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By the numbers

Built for transparency. Built for choice.

For learners

Free forever — browse, compare, apply

Verified outcomes

Completion · Time · Wages · Jobs

Aid programs checked

Workforce Pell · Pell · WIOA · GI Bill · State · Employer

52K+

Programs per state

All registry-aligned, all comparable

Explore the ecosystem

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