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LinkedIn Learning

Skills-First Talent Acquisition

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

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

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Richard Dubuisson

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