Widening Pathways to Work: Results You Can Use from Employer Pilot Efforts to Transform Hiring and Retention
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We won't be ready for the future if we hire the way we have in the past. But how do you shift something as fundamental as hiring and advancement practices to widen pathways to work for all? In this session, hear about completed and ongoing pilot efforts with over 150 employers who are implementing innovative hiring and retention strategies, banding together to educate local talent about job opportunities and address social drivers that can keep people from being able to work, and underwriting first-of-their-kind efforts to shift practices from degree-centered to focused on the full talent, aptitude, and potential of every candidate. Whether you're struggling to find or retain talent, interested in expanding access to work for you local population, or looking for quality case studies on how you can shift practice, this is the session for you!
Learning Objectives:
- Hear why and how employers are piloting new practices in hiring and retention.
- Learn about two major pilot projects, collectively involving over 150 employers, to expand access to work and implement skills-first hiring and advancement strategies.
- Explore how you can take concrete steps, based on the pilot outcomes, to change your own practices and widen access to your open positions.
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Clayton Lord
Clayton Lord (Clay, he/him) oversees strategy, planning, program delivery, and program evaluation for the SHRM Foundation, the 501(c)3 nonprofit arm of SHRM, which focuses on widening pathways to work and helping every worker and workplace thrive by empowering HR leaders to be forces for social good. He is a social impact executive who has spent his career driving systemic change in the world of work. Clay is also 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.
Lisa Durkin
Lisa Durkin is a Director at Jobs for the Future (JFF) with an extensive background in employer practice change. At JFF, she specializes in helping employers implement fair chance and skills-first talent practices. She leads the organization’s partnership with SHRM providing technical assistance to employers implementing skills-first practices, in addition to leading a Skills-First Action Cohort with the Business Roundtable’s Multiple Pathways Initiative. She has a Bachelors in Psychology and English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis and a Masters in Leadership and Organizational Development from Saint Louis University.
Andy Tonsing
Andy Tonsing is Vice President of Postsecondary Education at Stand Together. He is an experienced philanthropic and business leader in advancing innovative work and learning models that help people unlock their potential. He has a background in international education and online learning startups, including helping to establish the Pioneer Research Program, one of the premier academic summer programs for high school students in the US.
Shelle Randall
Shelle Randall is a certified economic developer with 20+ years in workforce development, staffing, project management and HR. She is VP, Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce, and Director of Workforce Development, Jonesboro Unlimited.
Shelle’s career also includes working for an investment banker in Texas, and a defense contractor in Washington, D.C.
Shelle has a B.S. in Journalism/Science, serves on the Board of Arkansas Capital Corporation and formerly for AEDCE. She’s a graduate of U.S. Chamber’s BLFP, and Junior Auxiliary Life Member.
Shelle and her husband, Jeff, enjoy traveling, destination marathons, and lake life. They have seven delightful grandchildren.