Skill-enablers™ from Arctic Shores

Skill-enablers™ simplify skills-based hiring and help companies identify high-potential candidates for the AI-enabled workplace. 

Our new assessment model is validated by industry analysis and data taken from a pool of 3 million candidate completions.

Download our companion guide to understand how Skill-enablers™ can help your company implement skills-based hiring in months, not years.

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Charlotte Watson — Talent Acquisition Partner

Arctic Shores customers can now measure Skill-enablers™

10 years ago, Arctic Shores was founded on the principle that TA teams and hiring managers needed a fairer, more accurate, more scalable way to uncover candidate potential.

Today, our Task-based Assessment captures thousands of data points on candidates’ potential to adapt, grow, and learn within a role. We’ve named this way of measuring potential the Skill-enablers™ model. 

Within this guide, we’ll teach you everything you need to know about how to introduce skills-based hiring using the Skill-enablers™ model, how it future-proofs your process for the AI-enabled workplace, and what research underpins these findings.

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The Skill-enabler™
companion guide

This comprehensive guide explains everything you need to know about how to introduce skills-based hiring using the Skill-enablers™ model, how it future-proofs your process for the AI-enabled workplace, and what research underpins these findings.

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Assessment’s new frontier

Hear from assessment expert Ben Williams on why skill-enablers™ are mission-critical if you want to guarantee you’re hiring fresh talent who will be able to continuously adapt, grow, and acquire new skills.

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Guide sources and links
  1. CV has been shown to introduce 150 biases into the recruitment process: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arctic-shores_how-cv-parameters-lead-to-hiring-biases-activity-7064534606292611072-SllW/
  1. University of Florida study: https://news.fsu.edu/news/business-law-policy/2019/05/13/work-experience-poor-predictor-of-future-job-performance/
  1. 85% of employers have caught false information on CVs and almost 60% of people exaggerate their skills: https://www.hireright.com/resources/2023-global-benchmark-report
  1. While they sleep: https://www.tiktok.com/@wonsulting/video/7274664145369189674?_r=1&_t=8pPwRtr9VRo
  1. The average CV contains 150 biases: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arctic-shores_how-cv-parameters-lead-to-hiring-biases-activity-7064534606292611072-SllW/
  1. This post on X: https://x.com/Coding_Career/status/1454293034179317764?ref_
  1. Only going to accelerate this problem: https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/reskilling-and-mobility-round-project-researchsrc=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1454293034179317764%7Ctwgr%5Ec62e1b3f57c497a15321c3b07a2cd885ee2cd328%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redditmedia.

  2. The average shelf life of many skills is just 2.5 years: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/reskilling-workforce-for-futurecom%2Fmediaembed%2Fqjc9lb%2F%3Fresponsive%3Dtrueis_

  3. ChatGPT and AutoApplyAI technology made every CV look the same: https://www.tiktok.com/@chloendiaz/video/7197943265394478379?_r=1&_

  4. ChatGPT and AutoApplyAI technology made every CV look the same: https://www.tiktok.com/@chloendiaz/video/7197943265394478379?_r=1&_

  5. In an age where the shelf-life of a skill is very short and decaying all the time: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/reskilling-workforce-for-futurett=8pPxikIx6COnightmode%3Dfalsesrc=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1454293034179317764%7Ctwgr%5Ec62e1

  6. Josh Bersin: https://joshbersin.com/2024/03/how-to-take-a-pragmatic-and-winning-approach-to-skills/
  1. Josh Bersin: https://joshbersin.com/2024/03/how-to-take-a-pragmatic-and-winning-approach-to-skills/
  1. The average shelf life of many hard skills is just 2.5 years: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/reskilling-workforce-for-future
  1. Shown to be very vulnerable to completion by AI: https://www.arcticshores.com/insights/how-students-use-of-generative-ai-will-make-traditional-selection-processes-redundant
  1. Boston Consulting Group: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/Reskilling-workforce-for-future
  1. The pragmatist's playbook for skills-based hiring: helping TA leaders navigate a new era of recruitment: https://landing.arcticshores.com/a-pragmatists-playbook-for-skills-based-hiring
  1. The Future of Jobs Report 2020 and the top 10 skills for 2025: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2020/in-full/infographics-e4e69e4de7/
  1. These are the top 10 job skills of tomorrow —and how long it will take to learn them: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/top-10-work-skills-of-tomorrow-how-long-it-takes-to-learn-them/
  1. 18 future skills for the workforce of tomorrow — further analysis of WEF data from Indeed: https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/future-skills
  1. WEF forecasts on the evolution of the labour market: https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2020/in-full/chapter-2-forecasts-for-labour-market-evolution-in-2020-2025/
  1. McKinsey's research: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/defining-the-skills-citizens-will-need-in-the-future-world-of-work
  1. Skills change, capabilities endure — why fostering human capabilities first might be more important than reskilling in the future of work: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/technology-and-the-future-of-work/future-of-work-human-capabilities.html
  1. Building the future-ready workforce — unleashing the potential of your organization and people: https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/ca/Documents/consulting/ca-future-ready-workforce-en-aoda.pdf
  1. The Skills Imperative 2035: what does the literature tell us about essential skills most needed for work?: https://www.nfer.ac.uk/publications/the-skills-imperative-2035-what-does-the-literature-tell-us-about-essential-skills-most-needed-for-work/
  1. Deep Dive: https://5339700.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/5339700/Marketing%20files/Skill-enablers/Arctic_Shores_Skill_Enablers_Deep%20Dive_.pdf?utm_campaign=Skill-enablers%20Campaign%20%7C%202024&utm_source=Guide_Download_validity_Reliability_analysis
  1. Listen to this episode of the TA Disruptors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mq1fE7RbsA&feature=youtu.be
  1. Molson Coors Beverage Company join the CV-less hiring revolution (2023), Arctic Shores: https://www.arcticshores.com/news/molson-coors-beverage-company-join-the-cv-less-hiring-revolution
  1. Burness Paull Unlocks True Potential with Arctic Shores, Arctic Shores: https://www.arcticshores.com/case-studies/burness-paull-unlocks-true-potential-with-arctic-shores
  1. Siemens solves skills crisis by scrapping the CV, hiring for critical roles in 41 days instead of 200 days, Arctic Shores:  https://www.arcticshores.com/case-studies/siemens-hire-for-potential-with-arctic-shores
  1. ChatGPT has broken traditional recruitment methods...but not ours, Arctic Shores:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrTolDr_7Os 

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