14 states have removed degree requirements for jobs this year.
70M+ workers are skilled through alternative routes (STARs).
Papia Debroy testified about our grant partnership with Opportunity@Work & the importance of skills-based hiring at the House Committee on Education & the Workforce this morning:
This morning, Senior VP of Insights Papia Debroy Debroy gave powerful testimony to the Congressional House Committee on Education & the Workforce on the importance of #skillsbasedhiring and creating more opportunities for STARs to #tearthepaperceiling and truly shine.
“Find a STAR. They're all around us.“
Papia Debroy, Senior VP and Chief Analytics & Research Officer, @opptyatwork, encourages others to seek out talented STARs at our #PublicSector Hub launch event.
View our STARs Public Sector Hub here. opportunityatwork.org/stars-policy-p…
#HireSTARs
.Price Center @ USC hosted a conversation w/ Opportunity@Work's Papia Debroy and Kate Naranjo about the workforce that is skilled through alternative routes (STARs). Watch the recording to learn about STARs and the pathways we can create to enable economic mobility: ow.ly/WrXn50GEOUr
“It’s time to tear the paper ceiling”
Opportunity@Work Senior VP of Insights Papia Debroy’s testimony to House Committee on Education & the Workforce on why now is the time to switch to skills based hiring over degree-based hiring.
Excited for this panel hosted by Opportunity@Work Monday Jan. 31, about how employers can tap into a broader talent pool. Feat:
▶️ Papia Debroy
▶️ Amanda Cage
▶️ Tamberlin Golden
▶️ Debrena McEwen
▶️ Hector Mujica
▶️ Mod: Byron Auguste
#HireSTARs #wkdev
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A striking graph from Dr. Peter Q. Blair, Papia Debroy and
Justin Heck's new paper on the earnings of those with and without ('STARs'= Skilled through Training and Alternative Routes) bachelors degrees in 1976 & 1989 NBER
nber.org/papers/w28991
TODAY: DON’T MISS 10:30 CT at #JFFHorizons : Rise With the STARs: Closing the 30-Year Wage Gap for Workers Without Four-Year Degrees' with The New York Times Steve Lohr, Papia Debroy, General Motors Tammy Golden, Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Dr. Peter Q. Blair, and ThreeSixtyEight Kenny Nguyen. #HireSTARs
Happening now: Opportunity@Work’s Papia Debroy sharing the latest research on STARs at #JFFHorizons alongside The New York Times’ Steve Lohr, General Motors’s Tammy Golden, ThreeSixtyEight’s Kenny Nguyen, and Harvard’s Peter Blair.
STARTING NOW! Rise With the STARs: Closing the 30-Year Wage Gap for Workers Without Four-Year Degrees with:
@NYTimes Steve Lohr
General Motors Tammy Golden
Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Dr. Peter Q. Blair
ThreeSixtyEight Kenny Nguyen
Opportunity@Work Papia Debroy
#HireSTARs #JFFHorizons
ICYMI: SHRM recently published a FANTASTIC piece on #skillsbasedhiring as Opportunity@Work VP of Hiring Solutions Papia Debroy spoke about our work and ongoing efforts: buff.ly/2FwQ9j2 #TechHire
CC TechHireRI @JoinSkillful Beth Cobert
Today! RSVP & join Opportunity@Work's Byron Auguste and Papia Debroy, National Fund for Workforce Solutions’s Amanda Cage, General Motors’s Tamberlin Golden, STAR Debrena McEwen and @googleorg’s Hector Mujica as they discuss new research on America's hidden talent. #HireSTARs
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Tune in on November 16, for a discussion on #TechInclusion featuring @annelies_goger from Brookings Metro, LiliGangas (now on Spill) from Kapor Center, Papia Debroy from Opportunity@Work, Bryce Jackson from Bitwise Industries, Jacqui Watts from Airbnb. #NAW 2022 #NAW
Register Here: brook.gs/3sWwFKS
Our new paper 'Skills, Degrees and Labor Market Inequality' is out NBER: nber.org/papers/w28991.
Headline: a key component of Labor market inequality comes from an opportunity gap faced by workers w/o degrees whom we call STARs!
Papia Debroy Justin Heck Opportunity@Work Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE)
More from Papia Debroy and Blair Corcoran de Castillo in The Brookings Institution.
brookings.edu/articles/state…
ICYMI: Last week Marketplace's @Meghann_MT spoke with Opportunity@Work's Papia Debroy about how STARs have been denied opportunities to upward advancement over the last 20 years. #HireSTARs marketplace.org/2022/02/17/hir…
The opportunity gap in moving to higher-wage work drives income inequality between workers with and without college degrees, from Dr. Peter Q. Blair, Papia Debroy, and Justin Heck nber.org/papers/w28991
How can employers tap into a broader talent pool? Find out Monday from Opportunity@Work's Byron Auguste and Papia Debroy, National Fund for Workforce Solutions’s Amanda Cage, General Motors’s Tamberlin Golden, STAR Debrena McEwen and Google.org’s Hector Mujica.
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