STAMP: A Framework for Mapping Human Capability Across Systems
STAMP is Gobekli’s developing framework for connecting skills with the activities, roles, evidence, time, and context that give them meaning. Explore how it informs the Talent Tree and Human Intelligence Layer.
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.
People Need Systems of Trust: Why Verifiable Credentials Matter to Universal Talent Passports
Verifiable credentials provide an essential foundation for Universal Talent Passports by preserving the source, integrity, status, and machine-readable meaning of trusted records. But real trust also requires evidence, issuer authority, consent, privacy, transparency, governance, and responsible human judgment.
Why You Should Own and Control Your Talent Data
Your work, learning, credentials, evidence, and growth are scattered across systems built for other organizations. TalentPass gives you a private, portable source of truth you can meaningfully control—while preserving the authority, provenance, privacy, and responsibility surrounding the records it connects.
What Can Be Used as Evidence in a Universal Talent Passport?
Evidence in a Universal Talent Passport can include credentials, work samples, projects, assessments, endorsements, outcomes, publications, media, awards, and reflection. TalentPass connects each artifact to the experience and claim it supports while preserving context, provenance, privacy, and individual control.
What is a Universal Talent Passport?
A Universal Talent Passport is a person-owned, living source of truth that connects experiences, capabilities, evidence, credentials, relationships, goals, and growth across work, learning, and life. It helps individuals understand themselves, create purpose-specific profiles, and carry what they have learned and accomplished between organizations.
Why Verified Credentials, LERs, and CLRs Matter in a Universal Talent Passport
Verified credentials, Learning and Employment Records, and Comprehensive Learner Records provide the trust and interoperability beneath a Universal Talent Passport. TalentPass connects those records with lived experience, evidence, reflection, capabilities, and goals—creating a source of truth that is both credible and meaningfully human.