Section 1 · Executive Orders
Six executive orders, one proclamation, and one DOGE workforce optimization initiative — together replacing four-year-degree hiring screens with verifiable, citizen-owned skills evidence. Here's what each EO requires and how to action it through the LER.me platform.
Created the National Council for the American Worker (NCAW) and the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board (AWPAB). The AWPAB Digital Infrastructure Working Group went on to author the foundational federal LER white papers.
Directed federal agencies to replace degree-based hiring with skills- and competency-based hiring, restricting the use of minimum educational requirements unless legally required, and requiring assessment of actual skills and competencies. The foundational federal mandate for skills-based hiring and the policy context in which LERs were first surfaced as a federal priority.
Expanded the use of Registered Apprenticeships across federal employment and federally funded projects, established a multi-agency working group to improve apprenticeship pathways, and re-established federal labor-management forums. Rescinded by the Trump Administration in March 2025.
Directed development of a Federal Hiring Plan emphasizing skills, practical ability, and constitutional commitment; required implementation of technical, skills-based assessments; and rescinded prior DEIA-related hiring orders.
Set the framework for federal workforce reduction and the four-to-one separation/hire ratio that frames the talent strategy described in subsequent OPM/OMB memoranda.
Directs the Secretaries of Labor, Education, and Commerce to (a) review all federal workforce development programs within 90 days, (b) submit within 120 days a plan to reach and surpass 1 million new active apprentices, (c) identify alternative credentials and assessments to the four-year college degree, and (d) improve transparency of credential and program performance outcomes. Foundational to the alignment of education and workforce outcomes under the current administration.
Required agency Strategic Hiring Committees, Annual Staffing Plans, and continued OPM/OMB oversight of merit-hiring implementation. Operationalized via the Continued Accountability OPM/OMB joint memorandum.
Proclamation explicitly references the Connecting Talent to Opportunity Challenge and the goal of building talent marketplaces and a national skills currency that translates learning into recognized value in the labor market. Notable as a White House proclamation tying community colleges, LERs, and talent marketplace policy together.
EBSCOed and LER.me deliver the citizen-owned Learning and Employment Records, credential registry, and talent marketplace federal policy now requires.