In this Skills Current podcast I’m joined by Meghan Raftery of the Education Design Lab to talk about skills validation.
In a wide ranging conversation, we discuss:
Skills validation
The connection between skills validation, trust and skills-based hiring
The Education Design Lab’s formula for skills validation
The importance of durable skills
Skills-based hiring & advancement
Biases applied in the hiring process
The implications of a skills-based hiring process for employers
The language of skills
The language of skills
Where more work is needed across the skills ecosystem
Skills visibility
The importance of skills visibility
Surfacing skills
Summer Learning Series
The Education Design Lab’s Summer Series on Skills Validation
Find out more
If any of this has piqued your interest, check out the Summer Learning Series that Meghan will be running with colleagues from the Education Design Lab…
The following information is provided by the Education Design Lab. (Ardcairn is not associated with this Summer Learning Series.)
Education Design Lab’s Summer Learning Series
Validating Durable Skills – A Four-Part Framework
How do we prove someone has a skill? And how can we trust that proof?
Join the Skills Validation Network Community of Practice and we’ll send you an invitation to this interactive series exploring a simple yet powerful formula for validating durable skills—critical for employers, educators, and innovators in the skills-based hiring movement.
This is more than a webinar—it’s a design space for those ready to build the future of skills validation at scale.
What You’ll Learn:
A four-part framework: Definition, Level, Context, Method
Real-world examples and practical tools
How validation can widen your talent pipeline and improve data quality
How to design your own validator (Session 2)
Example of durable skills validation in action (Session 3)
Session 1: May 21, 2025, 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Session 2: June 18, 2025, 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Session 3: TBD
Hosted by the Skills Validation Network – Community of Practice Summer Series
Led by Meghan Raftery + Tara Laughlin + Nishita Chheda of Education Design Lab
Join the Skills Validation Network Community of Practice
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