WEBINAR | Thursday March 27th

Skills-Based Hiring & Adapting to the Speed of Skill Change

Speakers

Amanda Winters

Program Director, Post Secondary Education

National Governors Association

Matt Walsh

Research Director, Lightcast

John Wannemacher

VP of Marketing, Lightcast

Key Topics

  • Best practices and challenges in adopting skills-based strategies, along with how to track their impact on policy or practice changes.

  • Discover how skills-based hiring is reshaping workforce strategies, with real-world examples from states that reduced degree requirements and increased job accessibility.

  • Explore key findings from Lightcast's Speed of Skill Change report, including trends in AI, green tech, and cybersecurity, and learn how to strategically respond to rapid skill changes.

Join the National Governors Association (NGA) and Lightcast for an essential on-demand webinar on how to build a resilient workforce through skills-based hiring.

Skills-based practices transform talent acquisition by focusing on candidates’ skills, competencies, and relevant experience over traditional qualifications like degrees—leading to better job matches, reduced turnover, and increased job satisfaction. In this webinar, we share insights from the NGA report on advancing skills-based strategies in the public sector.

We also explore findings from Lightcast’s Speed of Skill Change report. Over the past three years, one-third of the skills required for the average job have changed—transforming industries, disrupting talent pipelines, and challenging leaders to keep up. Learn how to stay ahead of the change.

You can access the full slide deck here.