Employer Insights on Digital Credentials and Skills Profiles: Lessons Learned – The Aspen Institute [Video]

Learning and Employment Records, including digital credentials and skills profiles, hold tremendous potential to aid hiring and talent management decisions, but employers want more clarity on interpreting and validating what these credentials indicate about a person’s knowledge and skills, according to a new report by UpSkill America.

More work is needed, too, to integrate them into employer hiring systems. Employers view digital credentials as a positive signal of a prospective or current employee’s growth and self-improvement mindset, but few have implemented systematic ways to recognize and integrate digital credentials in the hiring process. They aren’t sure what credentials indicate about knowledge and skill levels or how they validate specific competencies and job preparation. The lack of uniformity among digital credentials and skills profiles is also problematic and makes it hard for employers to evaluate their value, credibility and how they align with jobs.

UpSkill America, an initiative of the Aspen Institute’sEconomic Opportunities Program, conducted the qualitative study …