For a long time now, skills assessments have been fairly unreliable. Asking a candidate for a review of their skills will only provide one-sided feedback. Trusting anonymous credentials is also not providing a clear enough picture. That is where Skill Survey comes in. They are working to create a system where peer feedback will help tell the skills stories we need to hear for most effective hiring.  

Hear from Randy Bitting, Co-Founder of the Career Readiness Project, and Jake Burke, VP of Sales at Skill Survey, about how changing the way we collect and report on skills data will help all involved.  

Big Takeaways:  

• (9:15) The gap between who a student thinks they are and how they present themselves to the world can be very large. It's the role of the career services or student employment supervisor to point out that gap so the student can take it with them on their journey to their first full-time job. 
• (12:33) The big shift is from hard skills to soft skills; hard skills are typically what you're hired for, and soft skills (or behavioral competencies) are either the reason you're let go or the reason you grow in a certain position. 
• (23:28) Punctuality and attendance are in the top 10 areas that students and job candidates need to improve nationwide, and they are a huge predictor of future success. 

Skillsurvey.com/career-readiness