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At Grads of Life, we enable employers to adopt skills-first talent strategies that deliver business benefits and social impact.
Skills-first talent management emphasizes a person’s skills and competencies – rather than degrees, job histories, or job titles – when attracting, hiring, and advancing talent. Skills-first talent practices can be adopted throughout the talent lifecycle to help widen your organization’s talent pool, achieve greater retention and advancement, and improve access to opportunity and mobility.
We help leaders design, implement, scale, and evaluate a skills-first strategy at your organization.
Our best-in-class services, tools, and consultants leverage data and technology to empower you with the in-depth insights and support you need at every stage of your skills-first transformation.
See how we can help.
- SKILLS-FIRST BUNDLE BY GRADS OF LIFE™
Assess Your Organization’s Current State. Enhance Your Practices. Track Your Progress.
Our flagship offerings provide end-to-end support for your skills-first transformation.
Skills-First Navigator
Our SKILLS-FIRST NAVIGATOR™ pinpoints opportunities to enhance your skills-first talent practices to find, hire, and grow your people more effectively.
Skills-First Accelerator
Our SKILLS-FIRST ACCELERATOR™ leverages labor market & industry data to identify which roles within your organization are best suited for recredentialing and new talent pipelines to tap into.
Impact Measurement Framework
Our cutting-edge SKILLS-FIRST IMPACT MEASUREMENT FRAMEWORK enables you to identify key metrics to measure the business & social impact of your skills-first transformation. transformation
- ADVISORY & TRAINING SERVICES
Often deployed alongside the tools in our Skills-First Bundle, our advisory and training services can take your skills-first transformation to the next level.
From strategy development to change management support and staff trainings, we’ll partner to ensure that your talent strategy is not only robust and effective, but also understood and embraced both internally & externally.
Develop & Execute Your Strategy
Through our advisory services, our consultants work as an extension of your HR and operations teams to develop a robust skills-first talent strategy, create a plan with actionable steps and KPIs, and support with implementation, including role recredentialing, change management resources, and mentoring programs.
Equip Your Team To Be Successful
Led by our expert facilitators, our learning & development services train your HR leaders & hiring managers on vital topics including skills-first hiring, skills-first development & advancement, and inclusive practices. Our customized trainings ensure that your team is excited about, aligned on, and equipped to execute your skills-first talent strategy.
- DEI DIAGNOSTICS & SERVICES
Through tailored tools and solutions, we can also take a holistic approach to assessing your organization’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) maturity and partner with your team to prioritize next steps to build on strengths and address opportunities.
Access Insights on Inclusive Practices
The Opportunity Identifier (OI), our premier diagnostic tool co-created with Bain & Company, establishes a baseline understanding of your organization’s DEI maturity in adopting inclusive practices and policies to identify high-impact growth areas for future investment.
Engage in Action Planning & Staff Trainings
Based on your needs, we design and facilitate workshops, strategy sessions, and staff trainings to help you prioritize and invest in inclusive practices that improve the hiring, retention, and advancement of historically underrepresented talent.
Achieve Your Goals Today
deliver both business benefits and social impact.
- WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
“Working with Grads of Life has been a great and seamless experience. The collaboration, flexibility, and attention to detail have been extremely helpful in managing projects with several departments and stakeholders.”
Marissa Roberson
Senior Manager, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
United
“Our partnership with Grads of Life broadens our perspective on skills-first hiring and inclusive talent solutions.”
Michelle Sims
CEO
YUPRO Placement
“Working with the Grads of Life team at some of our portfolio companies has been incredibly valuable. Their diagnostic tools and analyses allowed us to see areas of strength and opportunity across the most important DEI metrics.”
Kate Griffin
Director, Portfolio Talent
Bain Capital
“Grads of Life provided the framework needed to create an effective diversity recruitment strategy to attract, retain, and rise underrepresented talent, externally and internally.”
Cara Adams
Executive, Global Inclusion & Diversity
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