Skills-Based Hiring Toolkit
Your step-by-step action plan to becoming a mature skills-based organization today.
Among widespread talent scarcity, organizations are being called to shift their hiring strategies toward a skills-based approach across the talent management lifecycle. Through actionable steps, this toolkit demystifies the process and empowers you to hire workers with the right skills for the job. Get the tools you need to get started today.
Maturing the Model
To help guide organizations in their skills-based hiring journey, Lightcast developed a skills-based maturity model that describes the key factors that determine skills-based hiring success. The model is informed by our work with numerous organizations on skills-based hiring initiatives, as well as our research and discussions with hundreds of talent leaders, hiring managers, skills vendors, and other subject matter experts.
It outlines four key dimensions that organizations should consider for their skills-based hiring initiatives:
Business Value Delivered
Skills Strategy and Direction
Skills Data Management
Stakeholder Engagement
Organizations may use this model to baseline where they are today in terms of their skills initiatives and determine their desired future state for each dimension of skills-based maturity.
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Download the Complete ToolkitSkills-Based Hiring Journey: Step-by-Step Breakdowns
While the Skills-Based Organization Maturity Model presents a high-level framework for organizations to assess the overall posture of their skills-based initiatives, organizations also need actionable guidance on where to begin their skills journey.
To outline the actions that organizations can take to adopt skills-based hiring and talent management practices, we detail a 12-step journey to becoming a skills-based organization, in three phases (PLAN, ARCHITECT, OPTIMIZE). These steps are informed by Lightcast’s work with organizations implementing skills, reviews of existing skills literature, and discussions with subject matter experts.
Plan
Architect
Optimize
As companies build new programs to source, identify, and grow skills in this competitive labor market, Lightcast can serve as the "universal source of truth" for analysis, planning, recruiting, and benchmarking.
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Identify Critical Roles
The best way to get started is to identify key roles free to access - to help identify the priority skills that are a business priority for your organization in the next 12 months. This may include roles with high turnover rates, hard to find candidates in the market, or strategic importance to the organization. Generate a list of 5 to 10 priority roles to start.
Identify Meaningful Skills
For each of these roles, not all skills are created equal. Skills and their importance for different roles are constantly changing alongside your organizational priorities and technological advances. Correctly identifying and prioritizing skills needed in these roles can be the key factor in driving impact for your organization. Informed by thousands of hours of data analysis and our skills taxonomy, we've created a tool - free to access - to help identify the priority skills for each role. Start here to help shed some light on the critical and disruptive skills with Lightcast's Disruptive Skills Matrix.
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Upgrade Your Job Postings Accordingly
Most hiring managers have no way of knowing what kind of talent exists in the market or how the skills or other requirements they’re asking for impact the pool of potential candidates. This is where data-informed skills analysis can offer insights and help to optimize job postings. Take a deep dive into understanding the skills needed for these roles and which skills you are missing by using our free online Job Posting Optimizer Tool. Copy the text of your posting into our Job Posting Optimizer and watch it instantly extract all the skills you’re listing (including ones you didn’t realize you were asking for). Now you can refine the posting by taking note of which skills are common, which are priorities, which you can exclude, and new ones to include.
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This is only some of the information we offer in the complete toolkit. Download it now to get a realistic starting place to build your business case, achieve quick wins, and build momentum.
A simple approach to take action today, whether you’re in a startup or Fortune 50 organization.
