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# Skill-Based Hiring: Bridging Vision and Technology


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 18, 2024
- **Time:** 14:10–14:40 (30 min)
- **Room:** Tech Recruiting Summit - PURPLE STAGE
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Description

In today's evolving job market, structured and data-driven skill management is crucial. Skill-based hiring isn't new, but cutting-edge technology, especially AI, is revolutionizing its potential. Join us for a practical session where we explore how tech and AI can elevate your recruitment strategy. Marieke Drees and Kasper Kok will present actionable approaches recruiters can use to implement skill-based hiring in their organization. They will show how skills technology can help match the right talent to the right jobs, and discuss what it takes to convince internal stakeholders, like hiring managers, of a skill-based strategy.

## Speakers

### [Kasper Kok](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@kasper-kok)

Textkernel - Connecting People and Jobs better
### [Marieke Drees](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@marieke-drees)

Textkernel - Connecting People and Jobs Better


## Related talks at this congress

- [Artificial intelligence in recruiting: the beginning of a new era?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/154-artificial) — Annika Mutius, Rudi Bauer
- [Rethinking Recruiting: What you didn’t know about Responsible AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/426-rethinking) — Jaap Kersten, Vincent Slot
- [The Future of Recruiting: Innovations and Challenges in the European IT Sector](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/441-the-future-of) — Ingolf Teetz
- [PAI - Headhunting automated with AI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/425-pai-headhunting) — Simon Tschuertz