The Center for Employability Outcomes (C4EO) at Texas State Technical College is a research, development and commercialization division focused on optimizing student employability. C4EO creates advanced skills modeling and data analytics tools that connect educators, individuals, and industry. Current initiatives focus on aligning learning outcomes with marketable skills to close regional skill gaps. The Center is a response to the growing demand for skilled labor needs generated by rising incumbent worker retirements (baby boomers), global competition in the labor market, and technology advances across industry sectors. C4EO bridges the competency needs of industry with colleges. This work is done in close coordination with the Texas Workforce Commission, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Education Agency. The center pulls together many partners and introduces a multi-disciplinary approach to establishing new and more actionable model for curriculum alignment: • Labor market economics • Instructional design • Industrial and organizational psychology • Human resource management • Semantic analysis • Natural language processing