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The Shift Toward a Skills-First Mindset – A Thought-Leader Roundtable


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Released 9/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 56m | Size: 192 MB
Skills, not just degrees, are rapidly becoming the new employment currency as we reevaluate a candidate or existing employee’s ability to succeed in a given job. But where do you start? What does skills-first hiring mean, and how do you make it a deliberate part of your talent management strategies? Join this panel of experts to explore the why, the what, and the how of skills-first approaches. Learn why skills-first thinking is on the rise, what challenges it may present for business leaders, and how a skills-first model can unlock opportunity and advance DEI strategies. Dive into practical approaches for discussing skills-first in your organization, implementing skills-first hiring, integrating skills-first through your whole talent pipeline, and using skills-first for internal mobility. Plus, go over tips to leverage existing tools, key takeaways for leaders, and ways you can explore what’s next.

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Skills-First Talent Management


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Released 9/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 43m | Size: 120 MB
Managing talent with the skills-first approach can help to unlock your team’s hidden potential. It allows you to identify, develop, and align employee skills with company goals to retain top talent and increase productivity and performance. In this course, instructor Tiffany Poeppelman gives you skills-first approaches to tackling team design, selection, performance management, and talent development.

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Skills-First Recruiting with a DEI Mindset


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Released: 09/2023
Duration: 35m | .MP4 1280×720, 30 fps(r) | AAC, 48000 Hz, 2ch | 120 MB
Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English
Successful recruiters wield their skills like artists, molding many different approaches into one. In this course, Stacey Gordon does just that, combining DEI with the power of a skills-first mindset to leverage the insights and outcomes of both approaches. Explore the key distinctions between traditional recruiting, diversity recruiting, and skills-based recruiting, building your awareness of how DEI fits into the latter to boost your hiring and performance outcomes. Supercharge your approach to recruiting by building relationships, identifying new competencies, rewriting your sourcing strategy, aligning your company’s value propositions with the values of your candidates, screening for skills and acumen, and much more.

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Skills-First Talent Acquisition


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Released 8/2023
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Advanced | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 49m | Size: 136 MB
As companies and organizations search for new and better ways to acquire talent, skills-first hiring has emerged as an effective alternative to the old practices of scanning resumes, looking for past job titles or specific degrees. A skills-first hiring strategy can give your organization new sources of talent, help people gain good jobs, and ultimately build greater economic opportunity in the world. In this course, Richard Dubuisson explains how you can start moving toward skills-first talent acquisition today at your organization. Richard covers the tactics of what it takes to recruit, evaluate, and hire talented people without formal degrees. He also teaches the equally-important aspects of managing the more nuanced cultural and mindset changes that need to happen as well. Learn how to lay the foundation of skills-first hiring at your company, how to engage in skills-first screening, and how to assemble a diverse interview team and train them to consistently evaluate candidates.

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