In this video, Dr Mark Keough, Yasmin King and Dan McFadyen, Co-Founders of SkillsAware, discuss the vision of SkillsAware and the efforts to enhance skills recognition and training in the workforce, while addressing challenges like standardising skills language. The video discussion also focuses on the importance of recognising diverse skill sets, including those gained through volunteer work or non-traditional paths, and tackling the gap between job seekers and available opportunities.
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SkillsAware
SkillsAware is the foundational skills infrastructure layer that solves the visibility crisis in the modern workforce by making 100% of human capability auditable and actionable.It reveals the hidden talent legacy systems miss, providing a verified record of capability that allows organisations to deploy people with precision while giving individuals a portable Skills IQ to validate their true worth.We empower your current systems with evidence-based visibility into real-world capabilityUsing AI, SkillsAware captures evidence of people’s life-wide skills and issues a shareable skills reportThis isn’t a resume; it’s an auditable profile that provides a probability score of what an individual can actually doProblems We SolveThe cost of recognition - Manual RPL is slow and prohibitively expensive. We use AI to automate evidence collection and mapping, reducing assessment time from days to hours.Hidden talent - Systems only see the last job title, leaving 80% of skills undiscovered. Our guided AI conversation uncovers and catalogues a lifetime of diverse, life-wide capabilitiesWasted training - Employees complete redundant training because existing skills are invisible. We can identify existing capabilities so organisations can target specific gaps saving time and money.Skills-shortage gap - 87% of executives lack data to know if needed skills already exist internally. We surface hidden talent by mapping all individual evidence against industry or corporate standards.Inclusion barriers - Traditional hiring relies on biased proxies like qualifications or previous roles. We level the field by focusing purely on evidence of what a person can actually do.Crisis mobilisation - Agencies cannot rapidly verify skills of available volunteers during disasters. We provide a rapid method to deply the right people to the right roles.Learn more at skillsaware.com
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