The IEEE Microcredentials Webinar Series explores how skills-based credentials are reshaping the workforce and education landscape. If you missed our first episode, Making Sense of Skills-Based Microcredentials, you can watch it on-demand below.
Key Takaways
- There’s a skilled technical worker shortage. Industry is facing a global shortage of skilled technical workers in emerging STEM fields. While these critical roles require specific skills, many don’t require four-year degrees.
- Industry is turning to skills-based hiring to fill technical roles. Skills-based hiring is an approach that focuses on a candidate’s competencies or specific skills for a particular role rather than formal education.
- Skills-based microcredentials are helping employers assess whether candidates are industry ready. Microcredentials validate specialized skills for high-demand technical fields by using a competency-based model; learners cannot “pass” without meeting requirements confirming they’ve obtained certain levels of learning.
- Microcredentials are creating new career pathways: IEEE skills-based microcredentials help create new pathways into technical careers and help industry fill critical roles through skilling, upskilling, and reskilling.
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