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Foundations of Workforce Transformation
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Advanced Provider : KnowledgeCity 7 Lessons · 18m in Arabic, English, Spanish
Course Description
In this course on Transforming Workforce Strategy With Data and Skill-First Approach, you'll learn how to keep your workforce strong in a world that never stops evolving. If your business doesn't adapt, you risk losing great employees and may fall behind competitors. But when you use data and focus on skills, you give your company a better chance to meet customer needs. You'll see how businesses follow workforce trends, spot skill gaps, and prepare employees for future roles as technology and work models change. AI, automation, and remote work have reshaped jobs, so you need to rethink how they hire and train. Instead of hiring based on degrees or past job titles, you'll explore how a skill-first approach finds the best people for the job. By the end of this course, you'll know how to check your team's skills and use data to plan for hiring. Discover practical steps to keep your team flexible and ready for new opportunities.
What You'll Learn
- Apply the key principles of workforce transformation to keep your workforce strong as work evolves
- Follow workforce trends and use data to shape hiring and workforce strategies
- Identify skill gaps and prepare employees for future roles as technology and work models change
- Adopt a skill-first approach that finds the best people for a job instead of hiring on degrees or past job titles
- Assess your team's current workforce capabilities and skills
- Use data to plan for hiring and keep your team flexible and ready for new opportunities
Key Takeaways
- Businesses that fail to adapt risk losing great employees and falling behind competitors.
- Using data and focusing on skills gives a company a better chance to meet customer needs.
- AI, automation, and remote work have reshaped jobs, requiring a rethink of how companies hire and train.
- A skill-first approach finds the best people for a job rather than relying on degrees or past job titles.
- Assessing current workforce capabilities and using data supports planning for future hiring.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is this course about?
This course, Transforming Workforce Strategy With Data and Skill-First Approach, teaches how to keep your workforce strong in a world that never stops evolving by using data and focusing on skills to follow workforce trends, spot skill gaps, and prepare employees for future roles.
Who should take this course?
It is designed for those who need to rethink how they hire and train as AI, automation, and remote work reshape jobs, and who want to use a skill-first approach to find the best people for the job.
What is the skill-first approach covered in the course?
The skill-first approach finds the best people for a job by focusing on skills instead of hiring based on degrees or past job titles.
What will I be able to do by the end of the course?
By the end, you'll know how to check your team's skills and use data to plan for hiring, along with practical steps to keep your team flexible and ready for new opportunities.
What topics do the lessons cover?
Lessons cover an introduction, key principles of workforce transformation, trends and the role of data in workforce strategies, introducing the skill-first approach, and assessing current workforce capabilities, with knowledge tests included.
Professional Certifications and Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®)
Recertification Credits: 0.5
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM®)
Professional Development Credits (PDCs): 0.5
KnowledgeCity is approved by SHRM as a Recertification General Provider to offer SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP professional development credits (PDCs). By taking the courses approved by SHRM, KnowledgeCity can award SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for HR knowledge and competency programs related to the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge™ (the SHRM BASK™).
