Skilled Credentials Action Planner

The Skilled Credentials Action Planner is a free, self-paced way for busy HR professionals to learn about and adopt a skills-based hiring or retention strategy for your organization. Employers who implement skills-first strategies gain access to expanded pools of talent to draw from for open positions, increase loyalty and potential among current employees, and set themselves up for a future where more people will have navigated to work along pathways other than getting a 2- or 4-year degree.

Did you know, since 2018, the number of people enrolling in a two- or four-year degree program has fallen by nearly 10%? At this point, two in three working-age adults in the United States don’t have a four-year degree.

Full of resources, knowledge, and guided learning prompts, the Skilled Credentials Action Planner is a self-paced tool that takes you on a step-by-step journey to assess the readiness of your organization and your team, learn about how to integrate change management methodologies into your day-to-day work, and select, learn, and develop a work plan for one of nine skills-first strategies. Over the course of the Action Planner, you’ll be taken through a series of prompts that will, when you finish, be compiled into an action plan that you can use to turn your goal into a reality.

The Skilled Credentials Action Planner was developed by the SHRM Foundation in partnership with Jobs for the Future. It was made possible with funding from the Charles Koch Foundation. Find out more about skills-based hiring and retention strategies at http://foundation.shrm.org/skilled-credentials.

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