If you say skills matter, your assessment process has to prove it.

In this session, members will explore approaches to evaluating skills in ways that are fair, defensible, and operationally realistic in the public sector. Topics will include structured interviews, work-based assessments, alternative credential evaluation, and balancing rigor with feasibility.

Participants will discuss how to modernize assessment practices while maintaining compliance and merit principles — and how to build confidence in new evaluation methods across agencies.

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