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

Organisations based on skills

Utilise HR technology to implement 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 organisations and HR to address. During this time, it has become clear that companies today realise the value of understanding the current and future skills required for their workforce, but struggle to do so. To help organisations achieve their skills goals, the scientists have published sets of insights on the topic of skills.

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Making skills a reality: Quick facts

Skills remain a top HR trend and organisational 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 organisations 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, such as 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 increase

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 organisation

Delve into the research

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Assessing the skills-based recruitment timeline

Discover key insights regarding the evolving relevance of CVs and learn how to use AI-enabled capabilities to prioritise skills in the hiring process.

Discover key insights

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Changing mindsets about skills-based recruitment

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

Discover the advantages

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Explore the findings

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

Explore the approaches

Winning the race for skills with skills-based recruitment

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 CV. The Future of Work Research Lab defines how to create a skills-based hiring strategy, measure and validate skills in recruitment, change mindsets, as well as outline the technological recommendations to enable skills-based recruitment.

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Quick facts

Employees feel strongly about skills-based recruitment:

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

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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 educational basics. As much as I would love all jobs to be available to everyone, there are legal and compliance implications. A solicitor is the best example. We need someone with a law degree to be a solicitor, no matter what your skillset is.

Director of Talent Management and Development at a retail organisation