Survey: Course on Implementing Skills-Based Hiring & Advancement

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May 01, 2025

With skills shortages affecting 62% of UK organisations1 and 70% of US organisations2 last year, many businesses are turning to skills-based hiring to rapidly recruit the skills they need.

However, skills-based hiring remains an unknown hiring method to many. Given this:

Would you be interested in participating in a course on skills-based hiring & advancement?

If so, please let me know what you would like to see covered in such a course by clicking on the Start Survey button below.

The short survey will only take a couple of minutes to complete and contains:

4 questions
Single-choice and multi-choice questions
Options to add requests

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More information

The course would be:

Evidence-informed
Highly practical
Provide design frameworks for applying the learning in your own context

Delivery

The course would be delivered online and facilitated by me,

Grainne Hamilton

with

Ardcairn

My credentials

I have decades of experience in skills discovery and skills validation, notably:

Conceptualising and blueprinting skills discovery innovations, e.g. co-designing the blueprints for digital badge pathways (with Mozilla) and Cities of Learning UK (with the RSA and City & Guilds)
Advising UK further and higher education on effective skills assessment (with Jisc) and effective online teaching and assessment (with various universities)
Partnering with organisations to develop skills recognition programmes, e.g. City & Guild’s first skills recognition programme (the Ampersand Awards) and Coventry University’s first microcredentials (for graduate attributes)
Informing skills policy, e.g. via the Digital Badging Commission (UK) and the Open Badge Network (EU)
Contributing to skills ecosystem initiatives, e.g. Credential Engine task groups and as a member of the Education Design Lab’s Skills Validation Network
Writing about the skills ecosystem, e.g. Closing the critical skills gap: your skills-based hiring starter pack and this publication, Skills Current

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