What Integrated Talent Management Looks Like With a Human Intelligence Layer
A fictional employer scenario showing how integrated LER-based talent management can evolve into a Human Intelligence Layer for hiring, onboarding, development, retention, workforce planning, and AI-era organizational adaptation.
The Résumé Is Not Enough: Why Applicant Tracking Systems Need Better Talent Data
Applicant Tracking Systems have made hiring easier to manage, but they still rely on incomplete résumés and inconsistent data. LERs, talent passports, and contextual evidence can help employers understand candidates more fully while preserving human judgment and candidate agency.
Why Enterprises Need Learning and Employment Records—and Why Records Alone Are Not Enough
Learning and Employment Records can give enterprises more trusted, portable talent data—but records alone cannot explain how people, work, and capabilities are changing. Learn how LERs support a broader Human Intelligence Layer.
AI and Data Standards Can Improve Skills-Based Hiring—But Only With Human Context
AI and data standards can make skills-based hiring more structured, portable, and transparent—but they cannot make it fair on their own. Learn how human context, evidence, agency, and accountable judgment complete the system.
The LER Ecosystem: Building Human-Centered Infrastructure for Learning, Work, and Opportunity
The LER ecosystem brings together people, institutions, standards, credentials, technology, and policy to make learning and employment information trusted and portable. Explore what each layer contributes—and why the ecosystem must remain centered on the people it represents.
Envisioning the Future of LERs: Bridging the Gap for Workers in 2024
Originally published September 20, 2023. Updated to reflect the continued development of Learning and Employment Records, TalentPass, and…
From Prototype to Public Beta: Gobekli Shares an Early TalentPass at the U.S. Chamber Foundation
In 2023, Gobekli shared an early Universal Talent Passport prototype and insights from focus groups with students, job seekers, and community members. See how that research helped shape today’s TalentPass and Gobekli’s broader Human Intelligence Layer.