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! ♥️

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!

Very useful product.

Maker

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'?

Maker

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.

Maker

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!

Maker

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!

Maker

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?

Maker

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.

Maker

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!

Maker