Changing jobs is incredibly hard, particularly for folks without college degrees, and I think this is connected to a lot of problems we struggle with... AdeptID has built models that identify transferable skills people have picked up that would make them successful in new roles. They’ve already helped some big employers rethink the way they find and promote talent. Now they’re releasing this API to make it easy for anyone building a Future of Work app to connect hidden talent to jobs and training. They’re a driven team with big hearts and an inclusive mission and they’re eager for feedback from you! ♥️

Thanks for hunting @nikkielizdemere! ?makers I was reading a report on the labour market by ILO and can truly relate to your mission, to provide an opportunity to the hidden talent to realize their potential. Have you collaborated with some skill and training institutes, which fall outside the traditional 'institutions'?

Good morning Product Hunters (and thanks @nikkielizdemere )! Brian and I started AdeptID last year because we think economic mobility for people without college degrees is profoundly messed up and it’s causing A LOT of problems. We’re not the only ones who think so, and there are a lot of great Future of Work product people out there building software to solve parts of the problem. All of these builders need matching to personalize experiences and connect hidden talent with jobs and training - using real skills, not job titles or degrees. It turns out the ML approaches required to do this well are similar to what @briguy609 and I have worked on our whole careers. So we went out to build a recommendation engine that uses multiple skill taxonomies, real employment outcomes and ML techniques to identify talent in non-obvious places. Skills-based matching and technology isn’t a new idea, but it’s hard to use, siloed, and way too expensive - which is crazy because it's a technology that will only improve with more adoption! We want to take our models, which we’re proud of, and make them accessible to large and small organizations - like what Stripe has done for payments. Why we think it’s great: 💡 Cutting-edge ML models (previously only available to big companies) ⚖ Reduces bias (by focusing on skills rather than titles or degrees) 📃 Transparent, thorough docs (not hidden behind paywalls or NDAs) 📈 Learns from outcomes (quality of recommendations improves over time) We’ve got lots of work to do, but we’re excited to do that work with partners among the awesome maker community on ProductHunt!

Solving the middle skilled mobility problem is important for the economy and our society but also for individual companies and training providers and middle skilled workers themselves. This is an amazing machine that helps those transitions and opens up mobility to millions of individuals.

Very useful product.

Hi Brian and Fernando, do you provide a platform for other job portal or career website to feed their job banks to your API so they can build connections between different jobs? or like in the demo, you also provide the list of standardized jobs title, standardized job description to link different jobs together? I'm a bit confused on how the platform work. I guess I'm not clear on that part from the video.

Love this idea! Skills >> diplomas for building elegant and useful products in the 21st century, we would certainly pilot this when you guys drop a public beta. Go Brian, Fernando and AdeptID, cheering for your success!

This seems like an incredibly helpful product to heighten prospect accessibility. There are so many obstacles and barriers to careers, especially for folks who can't afford the investment needed for a college degree. Hopefully this can work to help mend that issue. Terrific stuff!

What a fantastic product. I have worked for years in the transportation, logistics and warehousing sectors and it is very difficult for companies to find talented and motivated folks and extremely difficult for middle skilled workers seeking their next opportunity to find direction for their next steps and a route forward. This looks to be a great solution linking skills and need and a big win for everyone involved. Great work, rooting for your success!

Talk about timely! Just yesterday morning, I read Debbie Lovich's Forbes' piece on how American corporate execs now find employees are seeking new levels of flexibility as they consider returning to the office. At the same time, the OECD, covering 32 countries and some 60% of global nominal GDP, is warning that automation-caused job loss is likely to hit hard, esp. among employees with lesser degrees. For execs and workers alike, that sounds like a perfect storm! The big question: how does the C-suite navigate these new pressures? One way will be to focus on their staff's input more closely than ever before. An equally important way will be to upgrade those inputs – and enhance them. Of course, for staff with solid skills (and potentially solid suggestions), but less than stellar college degrees, getting to give such input used to be the "Impossible Dream." Here comes AdeptID – right on cue! Matching skills learned with skills required, and doing it precisely enough to score the likelihood of any specific worker transition, will come as good news for execs – and, crucially, for the 80 million or so Americans who lack college degrees, but who have the skills or else the aptitude demonstrated in past performance to acquire those skills. Our "suits" and our training providers can generate a whole new talent pipeline strategy … and our workers get a personalized pathway. That takes the "impossible" out of the dream. And today's launch makes the dream itself a reality. For the initial partners of AdeptID have found that the AdeptID's API does, indeed, work. Good news, indeed! For smart execs and all-too-often unvalued staff, this could well be a win-win. And if that's not a democratic solution, maybe even an example of America setting a positive pace for all of us, what is?

I could see this becoming incredibly relevant for the immigrant community for non-English speakers who don’t necessarily have resumes they can submit and rely on word of mouth for jobs. Great work!

This is really interesting. I can see an approach like this being pretty helpful to anticipate a candidate's fit for entirely 'new' roles based on novel tech, or company planning in anticipation of jobs that don't exist yet. i.e. a way to avoid ridiculous job descriptions that ask for 5 years' experience in a technology that has only been around for 2 years, but has already become the de facto tool for completing certain tasks. Bravo!

I think this could be a game changer for a lot of organizations. There are lots of examples of very competent people getting "filtered" because of a faulty recruiting system. Congratulations on the launch!

Sorry, I'm not clear what it is that the product is trying to solve. Pretend that an employer writes a job post, the employer should know what skills are required for the job and the job post will/should list those key phrases. Applicants will/should list their list of skills as well and job site algorithm should be able to make good matches based on these. If for any reason the applicants "forgot" to list their relevant skills, this API will make a match based on other dimensions, but this will lead to the employer getting a list of recommended applicants whose profiles do not have the list of skills that the employer is looking for. How should the employer screen these recommended applicants then? Contact each one to verify that they indeed have the minimum skills required? Sorry, I can't quite figure out how this product helps the employer?

Seems like a great concept -- definitely has the potential to be very useful.

I think it is interesting and important that you look at transferrable skills. In fact, I think that it is more important than superficial job titles. There are hard workers that don't get the spotlight they deserve because no one has pointed out how their skills may be applied elsewhere. Excited to follow AdeptID and see what great things they will do for the workforce!

This is a brilliant idea!

This seems like a highly pertinent solution solution or enabler to something all economies (and governments) are grappling with. How to ensure everyone can benefit in periods of flux and change and no-one is left behind. (UK govt's efforts here: https://www.gov.uk/government/pu...) While governments are encouraging "reskilling", AdeptID enables and empowers people with existing and transferable sills. Efficiency in the employment market and maximisation of existing skills is hugely powerful. Excited to see how this is deployed and what it enables.

Given how quickly technology is changing the job landscape, it is crucial that folks can find fulfilling, meaningful employment regardless of previous titles and responsibilities. Finding something that is aligned to ones skills is difficult enough, and convincing a prospective employer can be even more difficult. As a career changer myself, I can attest that this is a monumental task. Having someone in your corner would lift a great burden from the shoulders of would-be job seekers who want nothing more than to do something they enjoy ( most of the time, work is work for a reason right?). As the resident non-expert in this space, I think your target demographic/fields are shrewd but this could easily expand into tech jobs such as software. Many folks in this field are self-taught and I can personally attest that some skills not only transfer over, but offer a divergence from the normal hegemony that exists today. Speaking of software, I played around with the API and it worked great! Nice job! I wish you guys the best of luck and look forward to whats coming next!