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Employer Insights on Digital Credentials and Skills Profiles: Lessons Learned

14 Oct 2024

Learning and Employment Records, including digital credentials and skills profiles, hold tremendous potential to aid hiring and talent management decisions, but employers want more clarity on interpreting and validating what these credentials indicate about a person’s knowledge and skills, according to a new report by UpSkill America. More work is needed, too, to integrate them into employer hiring systems. Employers view digital credentials as a positive signal of a prospective or current employee’s growth and self-improvement mindset, but few have implemented systematic ways to recognize and integrate digital credentials in the hiring process. They aren’t sure what credentials indicate about knowledge and skill levels or how they validate specific competencies and job preparation. The lack of uniformity among digital credentials and skills profiles is also problematic and makes it hard for employers to evaluate their value, credibility and how they align with jobs.
employment and jobs

Authors

Haley Glover

PROGRAM
Economic Opportunities Program UpSkill America
Pages
11
Published in
United States of America

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