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Feb 20, 2025, 11:56 ET
Skillfully’s new AI-powered product suite helps employers validate candidates’ skills and make better, faster hiring decisions
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Skillfully, a leading innovator in skills-based hiring, today announced the general availability of its AI-powered “SkillsOS” toolset designed to help hiring managers make faster, more confident hiring decisions based on an applicant’s demonstrated skills.
With the updated product suite, powered by Anthropic’s Claude AI, Skillfully customers can create custom, hyper realistic AI-powered simulations that mirror real workplace scenarios unique to each employer. This allows hiring managers to look beyond resumes and traditional assessments, and directly assess candidates’ abilities in action.
“This new AI toolset is already helping hiring managers make dramatically better decisions in a fraction of the time by seeing candidates’ real skills in action,” said Brett Waikart, CEO of Skillfully. “Whether you’re a self-taught student looking for your first job or a seasoned professional switching careers, these tools will make sure you are seen for what you can actually do, not just what’s on your resume. Use of these tools will mean more merit-based opportunities for job-seekers and more efficient hiring outcomes for employers.”
Key Product Updates Include:
- Lego LLM Architecture: Skillfully’s novel “Lego LLM” approach enables the rapid assembly of pre-trained AI components like building blocks, drastically reducing the time needed to create custom simulations. With Skillfully’s low-code/no-code tools, hiring managers can now deploy tailored simulations in a matter of hours.
- Advanced Chat-Based and Voice Interactions: Skillfully’s new chat-based and voice-enabled interactions provide a more immersive way to evaluate candidates. Dynamic chat simulations test skills such as customer service, problem-solving and interpersonal capabilities. With real-time voice interactions, Skillfully’s AI helps hiring managers assess verbal communication, active listening and presentation abilities.
- Nuanced Skill Assessments: The new product suite provides rich insights into candidate performance beyond task completion. By analyzing how candidates approach challenges, adapt, and interact with others, Skillfully delivers a deeper understanding of their true capabilities and potential fit for specific roles. A structured rubric ensures objective evaluation of key skills in every assessment.
- Built-in Bias Prevention: Skillfully’s platform features robust safeguards against bias, including identity-blind evaluations, role-specific skill validation, and comprehensive audit trails. The system evaluates candidates solely on demonstrated capabilities through dynamic scenarios, with continuous monitoring and validation ensuring fair, transparent, and defensible hiring decisions. With the new product suite, every assessment now also generates detailed, traceable logs.
Proven Impact:
Early adopters of Skillfully’s “SkillsOS” AI suite have reported significant improvements in hiring efficiency and effectiveness, including:
- 70% decrease in total cost-to-hire
- 50% reduction in screening time
- 10x higher candidate conversion rate
“Skillfully simulations simplified how we hire, saving our team hours of resume review time each week by making sure we spent time with only the most qualified talent,” said Eliot Gattegno, Chief Learning Officer at Athena.
Skillfully’s “SkillsOS” is now available for hiring teams looking to implement a skills-first approach to talent acquisition.
For more information, visit www.skillful.ly.
About Skillfully
Skillfully is a public benefit corporation transforming hiring through dynamic, job-based simulations. We help employers see candidates’ real capabilities in action, going beyond traditional resumes to enable faster, evidence-based hiring decisions. By creating virtual scenarios that mirror actual work, we give candidates meaningful opportunities to demonstrate their skills—not just their credentials. Our mission is building a fairer, more human-centric future of work where talent is recognized through proven abilities. Learn more at Skillful.ly.
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