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Skills Action Planner

Skills Action Planner

Evaluate your organization’s progress in adopting a skills-first approach. Our interactive tool helps you identify strengths, gaps, and actionable steps to implement a skills-based approach effectively.

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Resource Library

Resource Library

Access research, tools, and employer examples to implement and sustain skills-first talent strategies across the employee lifecycle.

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Skills First Credential

Skills First Credential

Demonstrate expertise in skills-based workforce strategies. Equip yourself with the tools to drive impact across hiring, development, and retention.

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Vendor Database

Vendor Database

Find vetted solutions and community support for skills-first implementations—from sourcing and assessment to upskilling and mobility.

About Skills First Future

The Center for a Skills First Future helps employers put skills at the center of hiring and advancement—unlocking talent, fueling growth, and creating opportunity. We provide the tools, guidance, and shared language to make skills-first practices the standard.

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Removing degree requirements unlocks 19x more candidates (JFF, 2023)

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Skills-first hiring reduces cost-per-hire by 30% (SHRM, 2023)

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Companies adopting skills- first decrease turnover by 42% (McKinsey, 2023)

Featured Resource

"Activating Untapped Talent" Template Deck & Companion Guide
Supports HR Professionals in championing skills-based practices in their organization to make the case for workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes (STARs) instead of a bachelor’s degree to address workforce challenges. It provides a helpful outline that can be tweaked to a particular state, region, or locality to deliver a customized narrative about who STARs are and how they can expand the talent pool of workers using STARSight. Resource also pulls data and create visualizations to empower decision-makers with the data needed to drive action.
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