How an overhaul of talent assessment can bridge the giant skills gap and solve our labour crisis - Japman Bajaj, World Economic Forum

There's a massive skills gap among workforces where traditional assessments have been poor to match talent to jobs. An abundance of credentializing and discriminatory recruitment practices create further barriers to good talent acquisition. Modern assessment methods like competency-based assessments match recruitment to skills rather than credentials. There are 6.5 million unemployed people in the United States, yet nearly 11 million job openings point to the massive skills gap among current workforces. Meanwhile, the Great Resignation is in full swing, fuelled by toxic work environments and unaddressed grief from two years of pandemic life.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/theres-a-skills-gap-and-labour-crisis-yet-were-assessing-our-talent-all-wrong/