STARSight empowers employers to advocate for the inclusion of STARs (Skilled Through Alternative Routes) in their organization's hiring strategy, particularly for in-demand roles. By providing data-driven insights, STARsight allows users to visualize the STARs already employed across nearly every role in the U.S. labor market, demonstrating their proven capability and value.
Knowing this information can help employers:
- Understand the size of the STAR talent pool: Identify the number of STARs working in certain roles.
- Demonstrate STARs are already successfully performing in-demand roles: Provide direct evidence that STARs are skilled and ready for related roles.
- Source STAR talent: Helps identify roles with transferable skills that prepare individuals for the job you are hiring for.
STARSight provides three dashboard tabs: Explore, Compare, and Assess. The steps in this guide will help you navigate between the dashboards used for this task.
Use the Compare dashboard to identify roles preparing workers with skills for a new role
Support the case to source STARs for an in-demand role by using the Compare dashboard, the second tab on STARSight, to explore jobs with a strong skills match. The Which roles prepare workers? chart can be used to identify roles with overlapping skills, and the number of STARs in that role within an area.
Note: The region selected on the Explore dashboard determines the data populated for the charts on the Compare dashboard. To select a new region, use the location search box in the top right of the page or return to the Explore dashboard.
Learn more about the charts available on the Compare dashboard.
Step-by-step details
1. Use the search box in the first section of the Compare dashboard to look up the job title for the open role. STARSight uses occupations provided by the O*NET database in the job title search bar, which are informed using SOC codes to group related job titles. Type or scroll the dropdown list to select a job title for the job description.
2. If unavailable in the dropdown list, the O*NET Online tool can help identify the broader SOC job title.
- Navigate to the O*NET Online site and use the search bar to enter the job title you want to explore.
- On the results, click the blue How do they match? button to reveal the question mark icon next to each result and discover more about how the titles in the list relate to the search.
- Click the blue question mark icon next to the SOC job title best representing the role you are searching for to view more information. View the Alternate Occupation Titles to validate that the job title searched is included.
- Return to STARSight and use terms from the related O*NET-SOC Title in the job title search box.
For the example of Bookkeepers, note that the list of broader job titles in STARSight includes the best-fit option for Accounting & Auditing Clerks, which relates to the Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks title from O*NET. This is the option that should be selected.
3. Once a role is selected from the dropdown, the total number of workers currently in the role and the total number of STARs among them for the area are displayed below the search bar. This data serves as a powerful tool to address concerns from internal team members who may be apprehensive about removing a degree requirement for the position.
By demonstrating STARs are already successfully performing in the role, STARsight provides concrete evidence that STARs have the necessary skills to excel, which helps alleviate doubts and foster confidence in inclusive hiring practices.
4. Scroll down to view the Which roles prepare workers? chart to see source jobs with matching skills for the open role. The source jobs are listed in order of greatest skills match.
Source jobs are roles with an overlap of skills for an open role, where STARs are already using the same skills.
The chart also shows the number of STARs in the source roles, and for this example, First-Line Supervisors of Sales Workers has the highest number of STARs employed, 27k STARs.
Use this information to support sourcing talent from the thousands of STARs currently in roles with a skills match.
Assess roles to source STAR talent from
1. Which roles have the highest skills match with a role you are trying to fill?
2. Which roles are a good fit to source STAR talent from?