WHITEPAPER

Skills Based Hiring

A Primer

Go beyond the resume. Our partners at Whiteboard Advisors share why assessing not only experience, but also competencies, skills, and indicators of grit and potential, is crucial to hiring a diverse workforce.

This Primer provides an overview of the challenge along with the history and relevance of skills-based hiring:

    • A brief history of skills-based hiring
    • Retention and training
    • Limitations on data
    • Soft skills and personality
    • Bias in hiring
    • Skills based hiring in action

General Assembly transforms careers and companies through leading-edge training in coding, data, design, digital marketing, and more. Our team has worked with hundreds of companies across the globe — including more than 40 of the Fortune 100 — to upskill, reskill, and revolutionize their teams. With more than 21,000 corporate employees trained, and 40,000 alumni from our full- and part-time programs, our solutions provide immediate and proven impact on the job.