STARs have built valuable skills through alternative routes such as on-the-job training, military service, training boot camps, and community college instead of a bachelor’s degree. They represent half of the U.S. workforce—a massive pool of talent frequently overlooked.
STARs have the skills employers need and represent the country's diversity, yet are often blocked from higher-wage jobs by degree screens and other barriers that make up the paper ceiling.
Making available the insights to unlock half of U.S. workers
STARSight aggregates the latest national labor market data for the 70M+ skilled workers who are STARs, providing a complete picture of regional talent pools. Organizations and communities can more confidently build an inclusive workforce strategy that meets today’s talent demands and provides greater upward mobility.
Using STARSight as an employer
- Bring awareness of STARs as a vast, overlooked, diverse, and skilled talent pool.
- Support your workforce strategy by showing you where skilled talent exists in your region.
- Help you set goals for recruitment across roles, populations, and parts of your region.
- Discover the proven pathways to recruit STARs with transferable skills for your open roles.
- Support your diversity and inclusion efforts in talent acquisition.
- Validate how job requirements can impact the available talent pool.
Using STARSight as a public sector policy partner, advocate, and employer
- Explore the US workforce from the national, state, county, and neighborhood levels to understand the talent pool composition and identify focus areas for workforce development initiatives.
- Compare skills between jobs to understand how STARs can transition from a lower-wage to a higher-wage role and identify paths for wage mobility anywhere in the US.
- Identify wage correlations to areas with higher-density minority populations.
- Compare and contrast demographic information for workers statewide, in metros, and in specific neighborhoods.