Episode 45
Degrees of Change: The Shift to Skills-Based Hiring
Companies are missing golden opportunities to hire high performing talent that’s being trained and certified right now by nontraditional workforce development programs. To help your organization tap into traditionally overlooked talent communities, we’ve called in Michelle Sims, CEO of YUPRO Placement. Michelle tells us, “For 40 years, the trend has been to use a four-year degree as a proxy for your skills when, really, a piece of paper and a resume don’t always represent what you can actually do and what you know.”
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Michelle Sims
CEO, YUPRO Placement
Michelle Sims is the CEO of YUPRO Placement, a skills-first placement firm that sources, recruits, retains and advances historically excluded talent. A champion of skills-based hiring, Michelle leads a purposeful ecosystem of employers and training providers who collaborate on, and commit to, creating equity in the workforce. Michelle has been recognized on both the SIA Global Power Women 150 List and the SIA DEI Influencer list and is a regular contributor with the Forbes Business Council as a subject matter expert on employers adopting skills-first hiring practices in order to create equitable career pathways for overlooked talent.
“Talent is universal, but opportunity is not. Let’s change that together.”
Michelle Sims, CEO, YUPRO Placement
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