Skills Current: discussing the skills ecosystem and skills-based hiring

Skills Current is Ardcairn’s Substack publication.

We discuss the skills ecosystem from the perspective of job seekers, employers and society. Posts cover topics such as: skills-based hiring and advancement; stealth skilling; tools and tech for skills discovery and skills visibility; and inspiration for building skills confidence and skills currency.

Skills Current’s readers use our posts and tools to enhance skills discovery, to discover skills, to discover what inspires and motivates, and to discover the best person for the job. We base our posts around Ardcairn’s frameworks, such as our Skills Visibility Framework, and our Skills-Based Hiring and Advancement (SBHA) 7 Stage Model. These provide practical tips for developing nuanced skills data, enabling insights and empowering greater productivity and retention.

We invite workforce leaders and recruiters to gain inspiration from Skills Current posts to:

• Make better hiring and deployment decisions
• Enhance productivity and retention
• Improve insights to the skills available within your organisation, understand skills needs and gaps to improve skills pipeline

We invite individuals to gain inspiration from Skills Current posts to:

• Clarify the career path you really want to take
• Re-evaluate the value you can contribute within an increasingly AI-driven workplace
• Prove to yourself why you can make the move to a career you’d love