At Degreed, we’ve spent countless hours talking to our customers and partners about the challenges and opportunities of using skill data to drive positive business outcomes.
If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that running a skills-based organization requires more than insights from content vendors and learning programs.
Putting skills first to power talent decisions requires skill validation—often in multiple ways. Identifying skill gaps, building accurate baselines, and making the right decision means assessing and confirming the skills your people have and the skills they need.
That’s why we’re thrilled about our new and enhanced Skill Validation Partnerships with HackerEarth, iMocha, Workera, and Skillable, which join a number of existing assessment and badging integrations including Pluralsight, CredSpark, and Credly. These partnerships are designed to seamlessly integrate verified skill data into the Degreed platform—from multiple sources and in multiple ways—bringing the assessment data you rely on into the learning environment you’re using to make valuable talent decisions and drive change.
Expand your range of skill validation.
Businesses will need a major skills upgrade, according to industry analysts at the McKinsey Global Institute. “Demand for technological skills could see substantial growth in Europe and in the United States (increases of 25 percent and 29 percent, respectively, in hours worked by 2030 compared to 2022). . . Demand for social and emotional skills could rise by 11 percent in Europe and by 14 percent in the United States. Underlying this increase is higher demand for roles requiring interpersonal empathy and leadership skills.”
Whether your team needs to validate programming abilities, AI competencies, data literacy, or hands-on technical skills through virtual labs, we’ve got you covered. Each of our partners brings unique expertise. Moreover, their services can be customized and aligned to your specific needs.
Workera, for example, offers an advanced skills assessment platform that does more than simply test knowledge. Using AI-powered measurement, Workera provides deep understanding of people’s proficiencies—so you can benchmark your workforce by comparing your employees’ skill levels across teams, against your industry, to best-in-class tech talent, and more.
“This measurement possibility is the tip of the spear of pretty much every enterprise talent strategy,” said CEO and Co-Founder Kian Katanforoosh. “Because if you don’t understand your skills, then you can’t make the right talent decisions. You’re essentially shooting in the dark. You can’t develop your people effectively. You can’t match them to the right projects. You can’t identify opportunities internally for them.
“We provide a measurement system that is reliable, accurate, fun to engage with for the learner, and that gives you something back that is not pass-fail but is actually extremely rich in the type of skills, insights that it can give you.”
Get key insights within Degreed.
Workera assessments are highly granular, using adaptive algorithms to provide detailed insights into a person’s skills in as little as an hour.
With verified skills data from Workera—or our other partners—integrated directly into Degreed, you can align your team’s skill profiles with your organizational goals, ensuring every employee has the right tools to succeed.
The role-based assessments provided by HackerEarth are already trusted for talent acquisition. The integration with Degreed enables learning professionals to embed HackerEarth assessments and upskilling solutions into the core learning experience.
The extensive iMocha skill library means learning professionals can now assess more than 2,500 skills, covering a broad range of technical and business functions, directly from the Degreed platform.And Skillable learning and skill validation means learning and business leaders validate the real-world application of employee skills with confidence.
Expanding your skill validation capability is especially important as skill requirements shift.
For example, yesterday’s marketing professionals focused on communications and creativity. Today, they also need to know how to prompt and work with generative AI tools. A research scientist now needs Python programming skills in addition to lab methods expertise. This blending of technical and role-specific skills is becoming the norm, and it’s critical for companies to have a system in place that not only tracks but also validates these evolving skill sets.
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Running a skills-based organization is complex, but with the right partners and technology in place, it doesn’t have to be overwhelming.
With Degreed Skill Validation Partners, you can confidently pinpoint where skill gaps exist, provide personalized development opportunities, and measure the impact of those efforts over time. Together, we can help you turn the talent you have into the talent you need to stay ahead in today’s ever-changing world.
Join me and attend our Nov. 13 webinar Degreed Vision in Action: Ecosystem. We’ll explore emerging Degreed features, integrations, and connections available through our expanding partnerships. Don’t miss this opportunity to dive deeper into our latest innovations.
You can also check out our Degreed Ecosystem Directory to find tools, content, and resources that integrate with Degreed.
