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State Civil Service to expand skills-first hiring training, work with Opportunity@Work on implementation starting in March
Summary
Jennifer Schuelke said SCS is concluding a pilot cohort for skills-first hiring and will start working with cohort partners and Opportunity@Work in March to refine implementation plans; SCS is rolling out a 3‑hour ILT for HR staff and later a hiring-manager curriculum with a role-play capstone.
Jennifer Schuelke briefed the HR community on SCS’s work in a multistate "Transformers in the Public Sector" cohort to increase skills‑first hiring. Schuelke said the project is moving from phase 1 into implementation: starting in March the team will work with cohort partners and Opportunity@Work to refine and execute agency-level plans.
"Initial indications are great," Schuelke said, but she acknowledged areas for improvement and emphasized measurement of adoption at the agency level. Schuelke described a new three‑hour instructor-led training (ILT) targeted at HR professionals, with a later training tailored for hiring managers. The HR course includes a role-play capstone in which participants practice consulting with hiring managers and evaluating competency-based supplemental questions.
Schuelke said the course will equip HR staff to guide hiring managers through the hiring framework and use rubrics and guiding worksheets to evaluate supplemental responses. "I now see how competency-based supplemental questions can be used to evaluate skill," she said, summarizing participant feedback. Agencies are encouraged to sign up; organizers will follow up to schedule sessions at the Claiborne Building or travel to agency locations.
This work complements the SCS hiring-framework transparency initiative Schuelke described, which will include search tools to explain how competencies were picked and resources to help agencies apply competencies more effectively.
