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Hear Dr. Lauren Park, Senior Scientist, introduce the research program and its findings.

Skills-based organizations

Leverage HR technology to execute and integrate a skills-based strategy across HR practices.

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Five years of skills research

The Future of Work Research Lab has studied the topic of skills in various ways for the past five years as it has dominated our annual list of HR meta-trends since 2020, consistently emerging as a top priority for organizations and HR to address. During this time, it has become clear that companies today realize the value of understanding the current and future skills required for their workforce, but struggle to do so. To help organizations achieve their skills goals, the scientists have published sets of insights on the topic of skills.

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Making skills a reality: Fast facts

Skills remain a top HR trend and organizational imperative, yet many companies struggle to establish a solid skills foundation. Discover insights from the Future of Work Research Lab on how HR technology can help organizations execute and integrate a skills-based strategy across HR practices.

If employees knew their company made decisions about them based only on their skills instead of their formal qualifications, like education or job experience:

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of employees said their motivation to learn new skills would improve

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of employees said their motivation to improve their current skills would improve

Ideally, skills would be a complement to traditional criteria rather than a full replacement because more data points are always better than fewer. We need to look at skills first, but we wouldn’t wipe out the other information completely.

Vice President of Talent and Learning at an engineering, construction, and operations organization

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Assessing the skills-based hiring timeline

Discover key insights around the evolving relevance of resumes and learn how to use AI-enabled capabilities to prioritize skills in the hiring process.

Discover key insights

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Changing mindsets about skills-based hiring

Discover the benefits of skills-based hiring and why it demands a shift in the organization's and candidates' mindsets.

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Dig into the findings

The Future of Work Research Lab identified four key strategies to integrate skills into your people practices to become a skills-focused organization. Let’s explore these approaches and the technologies that can support them.

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Winning the race for skills with skills-based hiring

Skills-based hiring is the concept of hiring new employees based on their skills and ability to perform a job instead of the formal qualifications listed on their resume. The Future of Work Research Lab defines how to create a skills-based hiring strategy, measure and validate skills in hiring, change mindsets, as well as outline the technological recommendations to enable skills-based hiring.

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Fast facts

Employees feel strongly about skills-based hiring:

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of employees believe they would see positive outcomes of skills-based hiring

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of employees agree that AI technology for skills-based decision-making would be somewhat or very valuable

We have a lot of talented people with experience in different roles, but there are certain education basics. As much as I would love all jobs to be available to everyone, there are legal and compliance implications. A lawyer is the best example. We need someone with a law degree to be a lawyer, no matter what your skillset is.

Director of Talent Management and Development at a retail organization