Skills-First Talent Acquisition

Learn about the benefits of skills-based talent acquisition—both for your organization and society at large.

Introduction

• What is skills-based talent acquisition?

1. Why Adopt Skills-Based Hiring?

• Challenge: The opportunity divide
• Solution: A skills-based approach
• A framework for adopting a skills-based approach

2. Laying the Foundation at Your Company

• Set a bold vision
• Map stakeholders and identify champions
• Understand and plan for barriers

3. Develop a Skills-Based Hiring Pilot and Measure Results

• Develop KPIs and accountability metrics for the pilot
• Write skills-based job descriptions
• Develop a sourcing strategy
• Build skills-based interview questions and evaluation rubrics
• Train a consistent and diverse hiring team
• Share results and learning

4. Improve and Iterate at Scale

• Build scaling strategy
• Final thoughts