Amber Winton

Founder & CEO @itsnextwork. Learn technical skills by shipping real projects. Proof of work beats credentials. Wellington → Austin.

[Amber Winton @itsamberwinton]

4/4
It's why we obsess over the small things in the learning experience.

And you don’t need a fancy dashboard to measure that.

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1/4
This is the first version of our Student Love doc from 2024.

Not a fancy dashboard. Not AI-generated. Just 87 pages of screenshots.

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3/4
Like:
“Whatever question they asked in the interview, I had seen it at NextWork three to four times.”

“After the layoff, I got the job within 15 days. It all comes back to NextWork’s effort.”

… It reminds us as a team why what we are doing is so important.

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14/14
If we want to solve the world’s hardest problems, we need to get a lot better at showing who can do what.

[Amber Winton @itsamberwinton]

1/14
The way we hire has fundamentally changed. But the way we learn hasn’t caught up.

For most of history, education has been about permission.

Get into the right school -> complete the right program -> graduate with the right piece of paper.

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13/14
Learning portfolios should be customisable - adding flair, personality, and context.

This is the start of being a creator in learning, rather than a passive consumer.

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5/5
And I couldn’t be more proud of the team.

[Amber Winton @itsamberwinton]

1/5
One of our team members was nearly in tears after speaking with a student.

The student had revealed to them that they had been made redundant from their job. Life outside of work was rough too. They were in a depressive state - completely overwhelmed.

[Amber Winton @itsamberwinton]

4/5
The coolest thing was, at every stage of the interview, they could use the experience from their NextWork projects to answer the questions.

Stories like this just remind me of the impact that we are having on the lives of thousands of people around the world.