Minnesota Skills-Based Hiring Accelerator
Minnesota Skills-Based Hiring Accelerator
The Accelerator supports employers in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul region to adopt skills-based practices to attract, hire, retain, and promote quality talent.
The Accelerator program helps employers:
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Find qualified candidates to fill job openings
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Assess candidates' skills and knowledge to hire quality employees
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Use data-driven tools to connect with new talent pools
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Provide employee development to improve employee retention
What are Skills-Based Talent Practices?
Skills-based practices refer to talent acquisition and development strategies that focus on a set of objectively defined skills, rather than more broad credentials such as college degrees, years of experiences, or past job titles. This means creating criteria and hiring systems that assess candidates and develop staff based on the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to do a job.
Examples of skills-based hiring practices include:
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Updating job postings to emphasize necessary skills, not degree requirements
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Assessing and interviewing candidates based on knowledge and skills
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Creating training programs to onboard and retain workers
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Providing managers and employees with information about possible career paths, the skills those paths require, and resources to develop those skills
The change from credential-based systems to skills-based systems benefit both employers and employees.
Skills-based practices can help employers find qualified candidates faster, fill open positions, access new talent pools and improve employee advancement and retention.
For employees, skills-based practices increase job satisfaction, provide opportunities for lifelong learning, and allow workers to build skills that drive career advancement.