- New research identifies what we have to do to enable digital credentials to reach their full potential in hiring.
- This panel brings together employer research, HR standards, credentialing, and workforce technology perspectives to explore what it will take to make verified skills data useful in real-world HR systems and decisions.
What Do Employers Need from Digital Credentials and LERs?
Digital credentials and Learning and Employment Records (LERs) promise to provide employers with richer, more reliable information about the skills, experiences, and capabilities of candidates and employees. But the presence of better data does not automatically make that data understandable, trusted, interoperable, or useful in hiring and talent-management workflows.
Join HR Open Standards, UpSkill America, and 1EdTech for an employer-focused discussion of two new 1EdTech research reports, Bridging the Gap: Aligning Education and Workforce Adoption of Digital Credentials and Building Seamless LER Systems: A Path to Scalable Credential Data Sharing. The reports examine what employers need from digital credentials, where credential information gets lost or becomes difficult to interpret, and how existing standards and technologies can be used more effectively.
The panelists and moderator contributed insights to the research and bring complementary experience in employer engagement, HR data standards, talent marketplaces, digital credentials, and workforce technology. Moving beyond a review of the findings, they will discuss what the research means for employers and the systems they use: what constitutes credible evidence of a skill, how verified data should enter an applicant tracking or talent-management system, what will motivate employers to adopt new practices, and where standards organizations, credential issuers, and technology providers should focus next.
Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of the employer “last mile” and practical ways to turn credential data into signals that support better hiring, advancement, and workforce-development decisions.
Speakers:
- Rob Coyle, Digital Credentials Program Manager, 1EdTech
- Ian Davidson, Founder & CEO, Signol Labs
- Haley Glover, Senior Director, UpSkill America
- Jim Ireland, Executive Director, HR Open Standards Consortium