STARs Hiring Playbook

An employer's guide to tearing the paper ceiling

Inclusive, skills-based hiring starts here. The Tear the Paper Ceiling: STARs Hiring Playbook gives human resource professionals, talent leaders, and hiring managers practical tools and guidance to shift their hiring to include STARs - workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes.

STARs Hiring Playbook

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Interactive Policy Playbook

Practical policy strategies to make skills the key measure of value in the labor market — in how government hires and promotes, how it spends and contracts, and how it counts skills in its data. Choose your path to get started.

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Charlotte turned apprenticeship into a citywide talent strategy

How one city went from economic mobility crisis to fastest-rising in the nation

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Local Approaches to Tear the Paper Ceiling

Fifteen cities and counties have removed unnecessary degree requirements from government jobs. They're hiring better, building representative workforces, and opening pathways for thousands more STARs. This guide shows how they did it.

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