Pinpoint, Personalize, Prove: Degreed AI for Learning

Dana Pellegrini

segunda-feira, 4 de agosto de 2025

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Generic training is out. Precision-driven development is in. As digital disruption accelerates, the most agile companies are rethinking how they develop talent. McKinsey reports that 87% of companies are already experiencing skill gaps or expect to soon. But identifying which skills to develop, for whom, and how to do it effectively remains a major obstacle.

Traditional learning systems aren’t built for this complexity. But Degreed is. With Degreed Maestro, we’ve built AI that is purpose-built for learning and that amplifies workforce development. Degreed Maestro helps organizations pinpoint skill needs, personalize development, and measure change, so you’re always building the right capabilities at the right time no matter how fast or unexpected the change.

Using Degreed AI to pinpoint needs: clarity in the chaos

Knowing your destination is critical, but so is understanding where you’re starting from. Fragmented data, outdated taxonomies, and a lack of standards make it nearly impossible to identify workforce skills with confidence. And that’s a major risk when talent is your most valuable asset.

Degreed Maestro’s Skill Review Coach provides a conversational method to validate individual skills in a consistent, unbiased way. The result? A dynamic, data-rich map of your organization’s skill landscape that makes strategic planning finally feel well-informed.

Degreed also helps untangle chaotic skill data. With skill level and label normalization, Degreed standardizes skill data across systems, providers, and languages by removing duplicates, correcting inconsistencies, and enabling a single, usable view of workforce capability.

From there, role-to-skill inference uses AI to identify the skills each job requires and maps them to your people. This is complemented by inferred skills for content, which tags every piece of learning content with the relevant skills it builds, making it easier to find relevant content for your role and goals.

Using Degreed AI to personalize development: At scale at last

Personalizing learning has always been the gold standard, but it’s notoriously hard to do at scale. Most organizations are stuck delivering generic training that doesn’t match employee roles, goals, or readiness. The result? Wasted learning, disengaged employees, and minimal business impact.

Degreed Maestro changes the game. Its suite of AI-powered experiences, including a Leadership Coach, Career Coach, and intelligent pathway curation, guides every employee with just-right resources for their unique goals, skills, and challenges. Employees don’t have to hunt for the right content. It finds them.

Meanwhile, Degreed Maestro’s AI-assisted pathway curation builds structured, targeted development journeys in minutes, saving time and driving deeper engagement.

Need something even more tailored? With Maestro Studio, you can build custom AI-native learning experiences—from onboarding bots to role-plays—purpose-built for your workforce. Now every employee can have a coach in their corner, and your L&D team can finally scale personalization at a fraction of previous cost.

Using Degreed AI to measure change: Making progress visible

Many organizations invest heavily in development, yet struggle to answer a simple question: Is it working? Traditional learning metrics (completions, hours logged) can be helpful but don’t show whether people are actually building the skills the business needs. And without clear measurement, it’s impossible to prove ROI or adjust strategies.

Degreed bridges that gap. We suggest using the Degreed Maestro Skill Review Coach again after learning completion to identify improvements in skill level that came from learning.  This helps teams validate what people know, not just what they’ve clicked.

Paired with profile skill suggestions, which recommend relevant skills based on a person’s role, learning activity, and aspirations, organizations can continuously calibrate and update each individual’s skill profile. This ensures data stays current and actionable.

Together, these tools create a live snapshot of your workforce’s capabilities, so you can track improvement, close gaps faster, and align development with strategy.

Smarter workforce development with AI for learning

AI is changing everything about the way we work, and now it’s changing how we learn. Degreed puts that power in your hands, helping you identify critical skill needs, deliver development that matters, and measure progress with clarity. Whether it’s through Degreed Maestro’s guided coaching or dynamic skill inference, AI for learning gives you the tools to lead workforce transformation. By connecting skill data to learning and business needs, it helps you solve the problems that matter.

Because in the end, it’s not just about training. It’s about building capabilities that fuel transformation. If you’re ready to connect learning to outcomes with intelligent precision, get a demo and see what Degreed can do for your business.