Competency Development & Analysis
We partner with workforce and education organizations to create skills blueprints for jobs and their associated credentials, support skills-based hiring and performance management systems, and integrate competencies into state workforce and education policies, promoting worker mobility.
Strategy Development
CSW is engaged by state agencies, community leaders, business organizations, and educational institutions and systems to devise strategies for leveraging competencies and using incremental credentials to advance equitable talent management goals.
Tool & Resource Development
We empower our partners with customized tools for building quality credentials of all sizes, driving a more equitable workforce system, and conducting competency analyses. Using our playbooks, research, and reports, we guide partners through a step-by-step process leveraging promising and best practices.
Equitable Practice Advancement
We work to identify equity gaps and devise solutions for addressing them, including employing skills-based hiring practices, leveraging disaggregated data to identify the needs of targeted populations, addressing learner and worker support practices, and aligning policies and practices leading to equitable outcomes.
Research & Field-Building
Our team researches best and promising policies and practices, providing the data and information to ensure the U.S. avoids building a two-tier postsecondary system. We disseminate our findings via published reports convenings, leading communities of practice and offering professional development webinars and programs.
