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 skills that enhance their employability and increase conversion to full-time employment post-program.
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 and economic challenges.
YUPRO Placement, the nation’s leading skills-first talent placement firm, has earned a spot on ClearlyRated’s 2023 Best Staffing Firms for Women™ List. This inaugural award recognizes staffing firms that have proven their commitment to the equity and advancement of their female employees.
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, or years of experience. The purpose of this approach is to equitably match talent to opportunity.
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 options to gain new certifications, take classes or online courses and develop leadership skills.
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. Talent who are available and open to work are choosing different learning pathways and refusing to engage with companies that don’t accept them as they are. The pandemic only accelerated this trend.
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 then, YUPRO has placed more than 50 contractors, apprentices, and full-time employees at the company.
YUPRO Placement, the nation’s leading skills-first placement firm, announced that they have received two awards from ClearlyRated’s Best in Staffing 2023: Best of Staffing Client Satisfaction for the third consecutive year and Best of Staffing for Employee Satisfaction for the second consecutive year.
YUPRO Placement, the nation’s leading skills-first placement firm, was recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) as one of the 2022 Fastest-Growing U.S. Staffing Firms.
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