3 Steps to Make Skills-Based Hiring Predictable with Alessandra Pegnim, Udemy

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Alessandra Pegnim discusses how Udemy approaches skills-based hiring to make it more predictable and effective.

Skills-based hiring only works when teams can consistently define, assess, and develop the right skills. Alessandra Pegnim, Head of Global Talent Acquisition at Udemy, joins Shannon to share how her team built a more practical approach to skills-based hiring. She explains how Udemy validates skills with managers, identifies patterns of top performers, and uses structured interviews to make hiring decisions more predictive. Alessandra also discusses how this work extends beyond hiring. She wal...

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Host: Shannon

Guest: Alessandra Pegnim

Topics covered

• skills-based hiring
• talent acquisition
• predictive hiring
• structured interviews
• performance patterns

Keywords

• skills-based hiring
• Udemy
• talent acquisition
• structured interviews
• top performers

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Organizations: Udemy

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