Insights and Ideas
Welcome to our Insights and Ideas Blog, your go-to resource for cutting-edge talent acquisition strategies. Here, human resources professionals, recruiters, and hiring managers discover how to build high-performing teams by prioritizing skills over traditional resumes and proxies. We explore the latest trends in skills-based hiring, offering practical advice, innovative tools, and real-world case studies. Learn how to unlock hidden talent pools, revolutionize your recruitment process, improve time-to-hire, and boost candidate quality.
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YUPRO Placement uses Google Career Certificate to advance the skills and careers of its talent community
YUPRO Placement helps builds a career-ready talent community with Google Career Certificates, job search coaching bootcamps, wraparound support, informational career webinars, and more to ensure talent are building in-demand, high-value…
The Importance of Learning Pathways for Skills-First Hires
Building a society of skilled workers and adapting those skills over time isn’t anything new. It’s the story of innovation. It’s how America has evolved over time to meet technological…
How (and Why) Companies Should Support Skills-First Hiring
Skills-first hiring is, as its name suggests, a talent acquisition strategy where the employer prioritizes skills, first, as the selection criteria—instead of traditional proxies such as degrees, previous job titles,…
Skills-First Is More Than A Hiring Strategy, It’s A Mindset
In order to address current and future skills gaps, employers must continually prepare their workforce of today for the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow. It’s important to offer entry-level employees…
How a Skills-First Approach Can Help Ignite Hiring Efforts
A historical push to require four-year degrees and meet long lists of qualifications, along with the use of non-inclusive rhetoric, has in part led us to where we are today…
Case Study: Diversity in Finance Hiring & Talent Placement
Prudential Financial has a deep and long-standing dedication to DEI. In 2020, Prudential partnered with YUPRO, tapping into its 30,000+ diverse talent community to support its diversity hiring goals. Since…
Attract and Foster Belonging Among Diverse Talent
To move the diversity needle, organizations must make systemic changes. Here are five actions your organization can take to attract and foster belonging among diverse talent
YUPRO Placement 2022 Social Impact Overview
Explore how hiring early career talent can help your company weather economic uncertainty and a recession