While 94% of employees express readiness to learn new skills, research shows that only 5% of organizations are effectively reskilling their workforce at scale. The challenge is particularly pronounced in high-demand fields like AI, machine learning, and Cloud computing, where skill requirements continue to evolve at an unprecedented pace.
That’s where Workera, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, comes in. The Palo Alto-based skills intelligence company verifies employee skills through adaptive AI-generated assessments, maps those skills against an ontology of over 10,000 competencies, and then guides personalized upskilling through Elo — an AI mentor agent that diagnoses gaps, sets learning goals, and tracks progress.
“We use AI to be better at measuring any type of skill and by measuring everything we are better at measuring every single thing,” says CEO and co-founder Kian Katanforoosh.
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