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⛏️ The mining industry is facing a critical challenge: how do you retain vital knowledge and verify safety competence as experienced workers leave the workforce?

Join SkillsAware for the second webinar of our series 'Capturing Skills Visibility in Your Industry', titled 'Mining - Safety Competence in a Demographic Crisis' and hear from Yasmin King and Margo Griffith as they explore how SkillsAware can help your operation to move from assumptions to evidence-based hiring, upskilling, re-skilling and more targeted training:

✅ Identify hidden technical skills gaps
✅ Tackle the knowledge transfer crisis
✅ Verify safety competence through auditable evidence

Details below:

🗓️ Date: Wednesday 24 June 2026
🕛 Time: 4:00PM - 4:30PM AEST
🎟️ Register now: https://skillsaware.com/events/webinar-series-capturing-skills-visibility-in-your-industry/ -mining

SkillsAware are excited to be exhibiting at Innovation Alley 2026 by EduGrowth.

Bringing together educators, innovators and thought leaders, Innovation Alley brings together some of the most exciting companies in Australian EdTech in the one precinct.

SkillsAware have also been selected as a finalist of the Innovation Pitch Competition! We’ll be taking the stage LIVE to pitch in front of educators, EdTech leaders, and the wider education innovation community. 🎤

Come and say hi 👋 to the team, check out what we’ve been working on 🚀, and have a chat about how SkillsAware can help support your business goals ✨

📍 International Convention Centre Sydney (ICC Sydney)
📅 3 - 4 June 2026
🎟️Find out more and book your free expo ticket here:
https://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/edutech-australia/Exhibition.stm

The traditional résumé is dead. When 67% of candidates use AI to polish their CVs, every single application looks uniformly perfect - and tells employers almost nothing about the actual person behind it.

The latest Michael Page 2026 Talent Trends Report confirms a massive, fundamental reset in hiring patterns. As David George, Senior Managing Director at Michael Page Australia, puts it: “The question has shifted from ‘who do you work for’ to ‘what did you learn there, and what can you do with it?’”

Download the 2026 Talent Trends Report - https://www.michaelpage.com/talent-trends

That’s because when every CV is perfect, evidence is your only truth.

With 57% of hiring managers using AI to filter candidates, we’ve reached a bizarre standoff where machines are talking to machines. The result? A massive blind spot for human qualities - how you work with others, how you handle a curveball, and how you communicate.

The data shows employers are desperate to fix this:

- 61% of hiring managers now weigh proven skills equally with career path and education.
- 97% of employers who shifted to skills-forward hiring saw marked improvements in identifying true capability and potential.
- Over half of jobseekers are more likely to apply when a role highlights skills over credentials.

But here is the catch: if the CV is AI-generated, how do you verify those human qualities before the interview? How do you test judgement over presentation?

This is what SkillsAware was built to address.

SkillsAware is a skills evidence system designed to move your hiring from "Believe me" claims to "Here is the proof" auditable reality. We sit quietly alongside your existing platforms to help you see the real person behind the digital polish.

✅See all candidate skills - we use a shared language to describe durable, human skills (like adaptability and communication) based on what great looks like - no matter where they were learned.
✅Real-world evidence - instead of relying on a big-name employer on a resume, SkillsAware links real-world evidence to an individual's profile, making their actual capability immediately visible and comparable.
✅Human-in-the-loop integrity - our agentic AI maps life-wide experiences, but professional human judgment remains the ultimate authority. We protect the humanity of hiring.

If you are a hiring manager tired of reviewing identical, AI-optimised resumes, it’s time to change the infrastructure of how you evaluate talent. Stop guessing capability. Start seeing the evidence.

Discover how we turn invisible talent into verified capability at skillsaware.com

Talent Trends 2026 | Michael Page Talent Trends 2026: Hiring Through the HypeIn a hiring market that looks stable but is harder to read, explore the trends shaping AI, skills-based hiring, compensation, and career expectations across the U.S. talent market. Cut through the noise. Hire with confidence. The Key Trends Shaping HiringUn...

🚨 Final call to register!

We’re going live tomorrow @4:00PM AEST with the first webinar of the SkillsAware series, 'Capturing Skills Visibility in Your Industry.' Register now and be part of the conversation!

Our presenters, Yasmin King, and Dr. Mark Keough, will unpack how to solve skilled tradespeople shortages by capturing and verifying the invisible 80% of skills gained through years of on-site experience. If you care about the future of work, skills, and smarter hiring.

Details below.

💡Topic: Construction - Moving Beyond the Trade Shortage Illusion
🗓️ Date: Wednesday 20 May 2026
🕛 Time: 4:00PM - 4:30PM AEST
➡️ Register here: https://skillsaware.com/events/webinar-series-capturing-skills-visibility-in-your-industry/

📅 We’re going live next week with the first webinar of the SkillsAware webinar series, 'Capturing Skills Visibility in Your Industry.' Register now and be part of the conversation!

Our presenters, Yasmin King, and Dr. Mark Keough, will unpack how to solve skilled tradespeople shortages by capturing and verifying the invisible 80% of skills gained through years of on-site experience. If you care about the future of work, skills, and smarter hiring.

Details below.

💡Topic: Construction - Moving Beyond the Trade Shortage Illusion
🗓️ Date: Wednesday 20 May 2026
🕛 Time: 4:00PM - 4:30PM AEST
➡️ Register here: https://skillsaware.com/events/webinar-series-capturing-skills-visibility-in-your-industry/

🏆We are thrilled to announce that SkillsAware has been named a finalist for “Innovator of the Year - Best Use of AI” in the 2026 HR Innovation Awards!

Hosted by HR Leader, the inaugural HR Innovation Awards celebrate the breakthrough technologies redefining the Australian workforce landscape.

💬“Being named a finalist for 'Best Use of AI' validates our core belief: that AI’s highest purpose is to amplify human potential, not replace it,” said Yasmin King, Co-Founder and CEO of SkillsAware. “We’re not building another tool for the HR stack. We’re making workforce capability visible - so organisations can see and use the skills they already have.”

How SkillsAware is redefining skills recognition:

✅A Skills Evidence System - we link real-world evidence to industry-validated, machine-readable descriptors so skills can be compared across roles, sectors, and systems.
✅Fits With Existing Systems - we sit outside and alongside existing HR and other enterprise systems, providing a shared language without disrupting your current workflow.
✅Human-in-the-Loop AI - our agentic AI maps evidence of life-wide experience, but professional human judgment remains the ultimate authority for validation.
✅Portable and Lifelong - we give individuals a secure, lifelong record of their skills evidence that stays with them as they move jobs, sectors, or countries.

🙏 A huge thank you to the team at HR Leader for this recognition. We are proud to ensure skills are described consistently, regardless of where they were gained.
See SkillsAware in action and discover your organisation’s true capability at skillsaware.com

The recent reporting by SBS Australia highlights a staggering statistic: 340,000 migrant women in Australia are stuck in jobs far below their skill levels, largely due to the "no local experience" barrier. This isn't just a talent problem; it is a structural visibility failure that costs the Australian economy billions and drains human potential.

Listen to the SBS Podcast here - https://www.sbs.com.au/language/hindi/en/podcast-episode/no-local-experience-over-340-000-migrant-women-in-australia-stuck-in-jobs-below-their-skills/m6qcrri2b

At SkillsAware, we believe that capability has no borders. Our skills recognition engine was built specifically to solve this visibility crisis by turning international experience into verified, auditable data that Australian employers can trust.

How SkillsAware solves the Migrant Talent Gap:

✅ Beyond Job Titles - our agentic AI maps international work history, formal qualifications, and life-wide experience against 70,000+ industry-validated skill descriptors
✅ Multi-Language Recognition - we translate and validate global expertise, ensuring that high-level skills aren't lost in translation or filtered out by AI Gatekeepers
✅The Skills IQ Indicator - we provide individuals with a portable, verified record of their true value - giving employers the "Here is the proof" evidence they need to hire with confidence
✅Human-in-the-Loop Authority - we combine AI speed with human validation, ensuring that skilled migrants are recognised as the assets they are, not as skills gaps to be retrained from scratch

It’s time to stop wasting capability. When we fix the visibility problem, we don't just help people find jobs - we build a more productive, equitable Australia. SkillsAware is the missing skills recognition engine that makes this possible.

Discover how we're making hidden talent visible at skillsaware.com

'No local experience?': Over 340,000 migrant women in Australia stuck in jobs below their skills A national report, Activate Her Skills, released by the Australian Multicultural Women’s Alliance in partnership with Settlement Services International, has found that more than 340,000 migrant and refugee women in Australia are working in roles below their skill and qualification levels. The…

🎥 WEBINAR RECORDING - Now Available!

On Wednesday, 6 May 2026, Dr. Tara Laughlin & Nish*ta Chheda from Education Design Lab; and Margo Griffith from SkillsAware/Edalex, explored the critical balance between skills infrastructure and the human element, in ‘The Learner Voice - Why Skills Visibility Matters’ webinar.

Key areas of discussion:
✅How tools like XCredit and SkillsAware are transforming lived experience into verified, meaningful data
✅The power of visibility in helping learners better understand their own capabilities
✅Why durable skills are critical in the workforce

The highlight of the webinar is the participation of 2 learners from the XCredit sharing stories of how they experienced the moment their previously unseen skills were finally recognised, validated, and made portable, and Emily Roy, the CEO of JobLink Plus, discussed the challenge of professionalising the employment services industry in Australia and how her organisation is using SkillsAware to address it.

Thank you to all our presenters and learners for your valuable time, engagement, and contributions to the webinar.

➡️The full webinar on-demand is available here: https://skillsaware.com/events/the-learner-voice-webinar-why-skills-visibility-matter/

Webinar Series: Capturing Skills Visibility in Your Industry

Join SkillsAware on Wednesday 20 May at 4:00pm for Webinar 1: Construction - Moving Beyond the Trade Shortage Illusion.

Our presenters, Yasmin King, and Dr. Mark Keough, will unpack how to solve skilled tradespeople shortages by capturing and verifying the invisible 80% of skills gained through years of on-site experience. If you care about the future of work, skills, and smarter hiring, this webinar is one to watch.

Details below.

💡Topic: Construction - Moving Beyond the Trade Shortage Illusion
🗓️ Date: Wednesday 20 May 2026
🕛 Time: 4:00PM - 4:30PM AEST
➡️ Register here: https://skillsaware.com/events/webinar-series-capturing-skills-visibility-in-your-industry/

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