Skills-Based Hiring

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.

Skills-Based Hiring & Onboarding with LERs

Follow an operations-coordinator applicant from relevant work examples through hiring review and a supported first assignment, with a clear handoff of appropriate context.

Learning and Employment Records as Infrastructure for a More Equitable Talent System

Systemic challenges in education and workforce systems cannot be solved with disconnected records. LERs, Verifiable Credentials, TalentPass, and TalentSync point toward a more portable, trusted, and human-centered talent infrastructure.

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, Data Standards, and Better Skills-Based Hiring

Understand the distinct roles of data standards, AI assistance, and human judgment—and follow a skill claim into a more useful hiring conversation.

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.