White Paper
Leveraging Achieved Skills to Improve Confidence Between Students and Employers
Abstract
This white paper describes how a product team at °®¶¹´«Ã½ worked to help bridge a confidence gap making connections between job descriptions and skills by developing an achievements microservice, comprising technical solutions to enable students to review and track their achievements and skills progress, emphasizing skills as a currency in the job market. This tool can show how a focus on trustworthy skills records can help students gain the confidence to apply for job postings—including jobs for which they already have the identified skills as well as those they are on track to be qualified for in a predictable timeframe.
Authors
Francisco Contreras is a senior product manager working with the careers teams at °®¶¹´«Ã½ for over four years, where he primarily focuses on the Career Navigator student facing tool, and a talent source employer facing tool. Using continuous discovery and delivery practices, he and a team of engineers build and maintain the next generation of career tools. Previously, he worked in the University's IT department as a situation manager.
Brandon Edwards has been with °®¶¹´«Ã½ since 2022 as a full-stack developer for the careers teams where he has focused on developing the Career Navigator. He holds both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Computer Science from California State University, San Bernardino.