Minnesota Skills-Based Hiring Accelerator
Frequently Asked Questions
Who should attend workshops?
Business owners, C-Suite, HR directors, talent acquisition, hiring managers, learning and development specialists.
What is the difference between workshops and Communities of Practice?
Workshops take you through the complete design of the Skills-based hiring content, from job descriptions to employee professional development. The CoP’s focus on a single aspect of skills-based practices or a specific business situation in need of skills-based input. This is decided by the group present.
I am a small business. Can I attend?
Skills-based practices offers fundamentals no matter the size of the company. In fact, smaller business may be able to formalize practices more quickly.
I have signed up for a workshop and can no longer attend. What should I do?
If you have a replacement from your company that is able to attend, please contact Maddy Fisher at mfisher@mplschamber.com with their name and email address. If no one from your company is able to attend, please follow-up with Maddy via email for next steps.
Taking this training made me have more confidence. When I started, I had 20-22 openings and now I have 5. This helped me with how to talk to prospects and ask the right questions.
Recruiter, Commercial Cleaning Company
I want to introduce skills-based practices at my organization. How do I start?
Building and understanding the language of competencies and skills and how that language inserts into the entire employee experience in terms of business practice. Matching that to a single position for hire need you have and to proposed success metrics and then connecting with your leadership to create buy-in based on this.