3. Championing "non-traditional" candidates through transferable skills.

Let’s Talk About Skills, Baby

02-02-2022 • 27 mins

Meet Chandra Sanders, the director of the RISE initiative by The Mom Project. Chandra is using her experience as a mom and a “non-traditional” job candidate to help other women pivot into prosperity the way that she did. Learn what skills helped her shift from one industry to the next throughout her career, and how she is paying it forward to help other women achieve the stability and success she has found.

Learn more and support RISE and The Mom Project at momproject.org.

Big Takeaways:

  1. Moms are the C-suite of our entire lives. We know how to run things, we know how to budget, we know how to do conflict resolution. We know how to do everything.
  2. Talent, acquisition partners are really being creative in how they are sourcing, diverse candidates, especially if they want women and even more if they want moms. They have to now look at these candidates in a different way.
  3. The trending “hot skills” today are data analytics, project management, and UX design.

Skillsbaby.com

This is a Growth Network Podcasts Production