Fair Chance Hiring as a Talent Strategy: How Checkr.org Is Building New Pathways to Work For many employers, conversations around hiring often center on shortages: not enough candidates, not enough retention, not enough people with the right skills. For Checkr.org, the challenge looks different. The company sees a labor market where talent is often overlooked—not…
The Biggest Barrier to Apprenticeship Adoption isn’t Talent. It’s Friction. by Michelle Sims, CEO, YUPRO Placement What Employers Need to Make Apprenticeship Programs Work at Scale. Employers across industries are rethinking how they build talent pipelines. Pressures toreduce costs compete equally with pressures to complete important initiatives on time. At the same time, an aging…
YUPRO Placement Celebrates National Apprenticeship Week YUPRO Placement is pleased to join the thousands of employers, educators, state agencies, unions, apprenticeship intermediaries, and affiliated organizations celebrating National Apprenticeship Week April 26–May 2. National Apprenticeship Week is a U.S. Department of Labor initiative recognizing the role of Registered Apprenticeship programs in expanding career pathways, strengthening workforce…
Before the Degree, Before the CPA: How Apprenticeships Help Students Believe They Belong “Without YUPRO Placement, I wouldn’t be where I am right now doing the work I love doing.” For National Apprenticeship Week, we are talking with several current and former apprentices about how these programs shaped their careers—and throughout the week, we will…
Apprenticeships Have Evolved. Let’s Change How We Manage Them By Emily Schaffer Vice President, Strategic Alliances YUPRO Placement National Apprenticeship Week is an opportunity to celebrate the value of apprenticeships; it’s also an opportunity to highlight how a focus on apprenticeships has changed. For the first time this year Today, there are nearly 680,000 active…
From Incarceration to Instructor: How One Apprentice Is Paying It Forward During National Apprenticeship Week “Without YUPRO, I wouldn’t be here because they showed me how to believe in myself.” YUPRO Placement is celebrating National Apprenticeship Week by sharing the stories of current and former apprenticeships. Meet Valerie Boden. Her life-affirming journey reflects the power…
AI is no longer just a tool that supports hiring; it has become an intermediary. It is screening candidates before a human engages, while those same candidates are increasingly using AI to construct their applications. The result is a system in which AI is often interacting with AI, shaping decisions at a distance from the underlying reality of what a candidate can actually do.
In that environment, the central challenge is no longer how to move faster through a pipeline; it is how to ensure that what is being evaluated still reflects real capability.
In the News: Skills-First Hiring and the Future of the Talent Pipeline As organizations rethink how they recruit and develop talent, the concept of skills-first hiring is gaining attention as a practical way to strengthen the talent pipeline and open opportunities for overlooked candidates. In the Society for Human Resource Management article “Can Skills-First Hiring…
AI is changing entry-level work, but human-centered roles remain strong. Learn which early-career jobs are AI resilient and how to prepare for them.
Skills-based hiring is only the first step. Intentional workforce design is what builds adaptable teams ready for AI and constant change.