The Policy Implications of a Skills-Based Future
By 黑料传送门 Team
The nature of employment is . Employers, educators, and technology leaders are turning to skills-based learning and hiring to improve transparency, reduce bias, and increase equity in the talent marketplace. The recent (OSN) Skills Summit examined the policy work needed to support a skill-based hiring and learning landscape.
Policy development and experimentation鈥攚ith input from members of the economic ecosystem it affects鈥攊s necessary to coordinate efforts across the local, regional, state, and federal levels. OSN seeks to lay the data-based digital foundation needed to facilitate the shift to a skills-based future. But it鈥檚 necessary for industry, corporate organizations, educational institutions, and government come together and communicate effectively in order to meet the needs of learner-workers as well as their employers and communities.
Policy work is currently underway on both the federal and state levels.
- Last year, an Executive Order was issued that sought to reassess the educational requirements and hiring practices for federal jobs.
- The U.S. Department of Education鈥檚 is examining how to build a more equitable economy by recognizing that are worthy of investment.
- Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, the (NGA), is focusing on state-based skill development and training, with emphasis on moving towards skill-based hiring. To that end the NGA announced an , of which Western Governors University is a member.
- The U.S. Congress has seen movement on two bills addressing skills, the and the , both of which could lessen the financial burden of upskilling and re-skilling.
As policy work continues, the OSN seeks to create a space where different parties can dialog and collaborate to create a shared skill language; to design portable, interoperable records of skills, learning, and work; and to develop different approaches and best practices as we move toward a skills-based future.
