Skills-Based Hiring

Identifying Your Transferable Skills When Changing Careers

Your experience does not become irrelevant when you change careers—it just needs to be understood in a new context. Learn how to uncover your transferable skills, connect them to real evidence, and communicate their value to prospective employers.

How LER Standards Enable the Human Intelligence Layer

The Learning and Employment Record ecosystem has spent years making learning and workforce data portable, verifiable, and individually owned. This article explores how that infrastructure can now support a Human Intelligence Layer that helps people, organizations, and AI continuously learn together.

Why Skills-Based Hiring Is Really Competency-Based Hiring

Employers may list skills in job descriptions, but they make decisions based on something more complex: competency. This article explores how applied capability emerges across skills, experience, behavior, and context—and why organizations need better ways to observe its development.

It’s Time to Throw Out the Resume

Application volume is rising, hiring cycles are growing longer, and employers still struggle to see real capability. This article explains why the resume has become obsolete—and how Universal Talent Passports can replace noise and proxies with portable, verifiable talent data.

Becoming the Source of Truth

As AI makes polished resumes, pitches, and online identities abundant, traditional signals of trust are losing meaning. This article explores how people can become the source of truth about their own experience—and how self-understanding and evidence can restore agency and opportunity.

PDF Resumes Are Collapsing the Job Market in the Age of AI—Help Create What’s Next

AI has made polished resumes abundant while verification remains manual, weakening trust across the job market. This article explores how Learning and Employment Records and person-owned talent passports can replace static claims with portable evidence—and restore agency to individuals.

Time Gives Skills Shape—and Makes Them Visible

As the year comes to a close, many of us look forward to who we want to become…

Beyond Skills: What Is Talent?

Skills describe what someone can do—but not why, where, or how they will apply them. This article introduces Gobekli’s Talent Tree: a living, multidimensional map of human talent encompassing agency, motivation, identity, experience, wisdom, creativity, intelligence, and potential.

Harnessing the Power LERs: A Strategic Imperative for Enterprise in 2024 and beyond

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, where talent is the lifeblood of success, one transformational factor is poised…