Find and Retain
Skilled Talent.

Use evidence-based talent practices to find qualified candidates and keep them longer.

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Expand Skills-Based Sourcing.

Partner with regional education providers to source candidates with needed skills.

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Provide a Path to Success.

Support entry and advancement with demand-driven, competency-based career pathways.

7-Step Career Pathway Model® developed by Metrics Reporting, Inc.

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Scale Evidence-Based
Career Coaching.

Develop staff to manage and provide evidence-based career coaching to help more entry-level associates move ahead.

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Self-Awareness

  • Assessment of career interests
  • Assessment of cognitive abilities
  • Assessment of behavioral competencies
2

Option Exploration

  • Use of O*NET data
  • Comparison of interests, skills, and abilities to occupations
3

Decision Making

  • Use of labor market information
  • Use of information on available education and training institutions
  • Comparison of resources to options and barriers
4

Actions Plans

  • Aligned with evidence-based decisions

Evidence-Based Career Coaching process developed by Metrics Reporting, Inc.

Align Individual Career Planning With Organizational Needs.

Help workers develop the right skills and credentials to move ahead within your organization.

Job 1

Retail Salesperson Bright Outlook

SkillsFirst 41-2031.00

Starting Out

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Education / Credentials / Support

Job 2

First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers Bright Outlook

SkillsFirst 41-1011.00

Moving Up

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Education / Credentials / Support

Job 3

Sales Manager

SkillsFirst 11-2022.00

Continuing to Climb

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Education / Credentials / Support

Find Serious Candidates
With Evidence-Based
Career Portfolios.

Include evidence-based career portfolios in your selection process to identify motivated candidates who will get the job done.

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Make More
Successful Hires.

Use evidence-based selection to improve key hiring metrics and demonstrate business impact.

First-Year Turnover

SkillsFirst6% Reduction

Time-to-Fill

SkillsFirst6 Day Reduction

Increase Minority Hires

SkillsFirst13% Increase

Source data from Mercy Health's training and development programs available here.

Regional Industry Sector Network

Advance Regional
Sector Initiatives.

Join talent partners in regional industry sector networks to expand talent supply chains.

Individuals

Youth, Adults, Employees

Publics

State/Local Government, Policy and Advocacy, NGOs

Providers

Education, Workforce Agencies, Others

Employers

Small, Medium, and Large Employers

Individuals can’t navigate the jobs marketplace if they don’t know the skills they need to get the jobs they want. SkillsFirst empowers individuals with an understanding of needed skills and puts them on a path to future career growth.
John Cleveland

John Cleveland President & Co-Founder, Innovation Network for Communities (INC)

As our nation moves to a demand-driven, evidence-based system that connects employer need with skilled talent, solutions like SkillsFirst are essential to building sustainable talent pipelines that are reliable and adaptable in a global economy.
Martin Scaglione

Martin Scaglione President & CEO, Hope Street Group

SkillsFirst is a robust, legally-defensible career navigation/talent supply-chain system meeting Title VII’s “job related” burden.  Educators are informed of evidence-based skills required in their labor market. A job seeker’s interests and talents are assessed & aligned using those same market-driven skills required by employers. Using SkillsFirst, individuals, educators and employers will be better able to align opportunities with the needs of tomorrow’s labor market.
James C. Sharf

James C. Sharf PhD, former Chief Industrial Psychologist and Special Assistant to the Chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Serious people in regions across America have resolved to implement career pathways. SkillsFirst is designed to help people with diverse skills and backgrounds come together to build high quality career pathways.
James Guest

James Guest Executive Director, National Career Pathways Technical Assistance Center

SkillsFirst is an essential tool for building reliable, skilled and adaptable talent at time when our nation is moving fast to a demand driven, evidence-based system.
Martin Scaglione

Martin Scaglione President & CEO, Hope Street Group

Assessments help employers make better hiring decisions; and they help individuals understand their personal value in the jobs marketplace. The paradigm shift  created by use of evidence-based  career portfolios is that an employer recognizes the career portfolios holder is serious about their work and career choice, and employers should be led to ask, “Where might this applicant fit with us?
Bill Guest

Bill Guest President & Chief Solutions Architect, Metrics Reporting, Inc

Whatever the extent and cause of the skills gap may be, a competency-based signaling problem between employers on the one hand and providers on the other is contributing to it. SkillsFirst improves signaling between employers, job seekers, training partners through demand-driven, competency-based career pathways.
Bill Guest

Bill Guest President & Chief Solutions Architect, Metrics Reporting, Inc

7-Step Career Pathway Model®

Establish demand-driven, competency-based career pathways to support entry and advancement.

Evidence-Based Career Coaching

Develop staff to manage and provide evidence-based career coaching to help more employees advance.

Evidence-Based Sourcing

Set preferences for evidence-based career portfolios and receive motivated candidates from partner organizations.

Full-Stack Career Tools

Create career advice, cover letters, interviews, interview questions, pitches, portfolios, resumes, rubrics, testimonials and more.

Partnerships

Establish organization and network partnerships to expand talent pipelines.

Career Mentoring

Members and partners can connect, share content, and provide/receive career guidance.

Galleries

Manage access to organization galleries that drive engagement and career development.

Occupations

Get full access to version 22.3 of the O*NET occupation database.

Competencies

Get access to O*NET-based competencies frameworks including JOFI® Foundational Competencies, O*NET Generalized Work Activities, and O*NET Hot Technologies.

Access Management

Invite members and guests, assign granular role permissions, and create custom access terms.

Integrations

Connect to other platforms via Single Sign-On (SSO) integration including Shibboleth, LTI, or LDAP.

API Sandbox

Pull content from SkillsFirst with API sandbox access and complete documentation.

Let’s put SkillsFirst.

Provide a path to family sustaining wages through evidence-based talent practices.

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