Skilled Credentials: What You Need to Succeed in the Future of Talent Acquisition and Retention
Increasingly, employees are looking to skilled credentials - a credential, industry certification, apprenticeship - to help them enter and/or advance in the workplace. However, employer practices are not keeping up with this employee trend. Despite exponential growth, HR leaders and hiring managers are often slow to incorporate these non-traditional markers into their employment and advancement processes. This can frustrate employees who are looking to advance by gaining relevant skills. Hear about Google’s recent research into the increasing demand for and uptake of skilled credentials to hire and retain talent and get rapidly changing skills into the workplace. See how several companies are taking advantage of the shifting educational landscape to get and keep the talent they need.
Learning Objectives:
- Hear why employees utilize skilled credentials.
- Discover how making skilled credentials part of a talent development strategy helps with recruitment and retention.
- Increase acceptance of skilled credentials in your workplace.
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Greg Kaye
Greg Kaye spent the past 18 years at Google. He is currently Head of Industry in Google’s Marketing Services organization, where he is responsible for driving the digital media strategy for some of its largest, most sophisticated advertising partners in the Careers space, after a similar focus for Education advertisers.
In addition to his career at Google, Greg is also an entrepreneur, having co-founded successful businesses in restaurants and apparel, and father of 3 young children in San Francisco.
Clayton Lord
Clayton Lord (Clay, he/him) oversees strategy, planning, program delivery, and program evaluation for the SHRM Foundation, the 501(c)3 philanthropic arm of SHRM, which focuses on widening pathways to work and helping every worker thrive by empowering HR leaders to be forces for social good. He is a social impact executive with 20 years’ experience nurturing and evaluating complex initiatives that drive systemic change. Clay is a prolific writer, thinker, and speaker about the transformation of American communities, including shifts and changes in labor, public and private value, innovation and technology, and community priorities. He has authored or co-authored various research reports and three books and has guest lectured at colleges and universities across the country. Clay is a writer, painter, and quilter, as well as a travel fanatic, and holds a B.A. in English and Psychology from Georgetown University. He lives with his husband and daughter in Maryland.
Chandra Cody
Chandra Cody is the Human Resource Director for Volunteers of America Northern Rockies an organization dedicated to helping those in need rebuild their lives and reach their full potential. Volunteers of America Northern Rockies serves individuals across the state of Wyoming, Montana and Western South Dakota with a staff of over 400 dedicated to the mission. In her seven years with the organization, she has been an integral champion of developing a company culture from the ground up. Her efforts lead to her receiving an Outstanding Leadership Award.
Chandra has over 15 years of leadership experience in a variety of fields to include healthcare, education, and social services. She has a Bachelors in Biochemistry with a Master of Education in Curriculum Design and Assessments. Her true passion is helping grow and develop leaders based on a servant leadership model. Chandra has been a participant in the SHRM pilot program for employers to develop strategies for increasing the use of skilled credentials in upskilling. As an educator this project is a passion for her to help front line staff identify alternative options for gaining the skills they need to advance in their careers in different programs throughout the organization.