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🛬 Just touched down in San Diego for ASU+GSV, VERY excited for some IRL normalcy 👏🙌🤝

Join us today at 7pm ET as top early stage founders in the future of education and work pitch VCs! 💡Sergei Revzin of school16co 💡Rocío Raña (she/her) of @WeAreLangInnov 💡Aaron Wertman of Schoolytics 💡Brett Waikart of Skillfully clubhouse.com/event/M1OYaNNv

📣 Can't wait to take the stage with EdPitches tonight at 4p PT 📣 Drop in to hear the latest on skillful.ly and the future of employment! Thanks to Matthew Greenfield, Ross Darwin and Thea Knobel for hosting!! 🙌🙌 clubhouse.com/event/M1OYaNNv

Must read WSJ article asking the question (paraphrasing): "What matters more: credentials or validated skills?" 🤔 TLDR: The wealth gap is only getting larger, and if we continue to evaluate people by a piece of paper, we risk missing greatness. ow.ly/tfE150GzvGr

One week in and it’s already looking like a BIG 2022 for Skillful.ly 🚀🚀

💥Starting the year with a BANG 💥 Proud to share Skillful.ly made it to the Elite 200 in the gsv ventures #GSVCup for the second year running! 🚀 We've got some big updates to share so stay tuned - and see you all SOON in San Diego! #ASUGSVSummit #GSVCupElite200

I’m thrilled to announce Skillful.ly officially closed its first institutional raise, Led by Sarah Cone Social Impact Capital. She was joined in this round by the team Helium-3 Ventures & angels BG & Amol Deshpande. For our team, this is a long-held dream fulfilled!

We launched Skillful.ly as a Public Benefit Corporation because we saw the chance for change - a fairer, more transparent, more accessible job market driven by proficiency, not pedigree. Investors like Sarah at our back only make us more ambitious. #growth #hiring

The NYC Job Council chose Skillful.ly as a key partner in its mission to prepare NYC for a skills-first future of work. Skillful.ly is working with companies like EY US, Deloitte, TD Bank News & more to place 100k New Yorkers into high-potential jobs by 2030.

Our team is connecting some of the world's largest employers with top talent graduating from the The City University of New York & beyond. We're thrilled for the chance to design a new model of skills-first hiring and see it adopted at such a scale. Onward! #skillsfirst #futureofwork

I’m blown away by the talent we’re bringing aboard in the coming weeks. Getting to meet, hire, and work alongside people I admire is the single greatest perk of this job. A big THANK YOU to our current and future team - how sweet it is to get to build something together.

Starting a company is insanely hard,starting one by yourself must be impossible.I’m forever grateful to JohnsonJames and Kelly Cure for agreeing to join us as co-founders.Each & every hire we’ve made since then has left their mark on what we’ve built & got us to where we are now

We’re just a week into January but 2023 is already shaping up to be our best year yet. New customers, new revenue, more than a thousand new users (🤯) in our last cohort - super exciting progress that reflects the immense heart and hustle of the Skillful.ly team.

Employers want to hire by skills, not CVs. Despite recent comments from their CEO, LinkedIn is a part of the problem, not the solution. They’ve boiled jobseekers down to the few data fields they can scrape from a resume.This created a broken labor market that we must fix. #hiring

We can build systems that validate a huge range of skills at scale. “Proficiency over pedigree” is here to stay. Despite the way they’ve convinced recruiters that the data from a resume is the best way to view the labor pool, the CEO of LinkedIn seems to agree.bit.ly/3FNOHGb

💥The country’s largest private employer Walmart Inc. joins the “proficiency over pedigree” movement💥 Kathleen McLaughlin Walmart's executive VP agrees based on a statement made this fall. Hey Walmart 👋let us show you what Skillful.ly can do!bit.ly/3USIUDO