OneTen

What OneTen does

OneTen is a U.S. non-profit organization founded in 2020 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., whose stated mission is to create one million careers for Black talent in America over ten years. It operates primarily through its SkillsRight sub-brand, a skills-first workforce transformation platform that helps large employers move away from degree-based hiring toward skills-based hiring, role design, and talent management. The organization serves two sides of the market: enterprise employer clients seeking workforce transformation consulting and tooling, and career seekers without four-year degrees who access opportunities through the Career Marketplace and Career Hub portals.

The product surface consists of four integrated components: (1) the SkillsRight platform providing strategic consulting across market alignment, role recredentialing, sustained adoption, and workforce infrastructure; (2) the proprietary Jobs Engine, which performs precision talent matching and role analysis by skills rather than credentials; (3) the Career Marketplace and Career Hub consumer-facing portals; and (4) research publications, notably joint work with Burning Glass Institute on credential fluency across 1,000+ large U.S. employers and a skills-first hiring report with The Conference Board. No API, SDK, mobile app, or disclosed AI/ML architecture is described in the available data.

Commercially, OneTen functions as a sales-led B2B professional services and platform provider in the U.S. domestic market only. Revenue mechanics are not publicly disclosed; no pricing, contract value, funding round, or employee count information is available. Go-to-market relies on direct enterprise engagement supplemented by research-driven content marketing, executive thought leadership (e.g., CEO Debbie Dyson in Fast Company), and partnerships with Burning Glass Institute, The Conference Board, the National Governors Association Center, and Business Roundtable. Co-founder Kenneth I. Chenault and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer Sabrina Dupré are the disclosed executives; the leadership team is otherwise not detailed in the available sources.

Name

OneTen

Legal name

OneTen

Website

https://oneten.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Short description

OneTen is a U.S. non-profit that, through its SkillsRight platform and proprietary Jobs Engine, helps large employers adopt skills-first hiring while connecting workers without four-year degrees to career opportunities via its Career Marketplace.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Workforce Development Services

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (61143), Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (5419)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS) (BPACAPAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Career Services & Job Placement Platforms (Jobs, Recruiting, Employer Networks) (EDAFAMAM), Skills Assessment & Talent/Employability Testing Platforms (EDAFADAM), Workforce & Employability Analytics (Skills Inference, Career Pathing Outcomes) (EDAFAFAL), Incumbent Worker Training & Upskilling (EDAAAOAE), Skills & Job-Specific Competency Testing (Hard Skills) (BPACAMAD)

Keywords

• Skills-first hiring
• Workforce transformation
• Talent matching platform
• Career marketplace
• Credential fluency research

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Enterprise workforce transformation services: Services to help organizations adopt skills-first strategies, including consulting, tools, and ongoing support for workforce transformation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

OneTen operates SkillsRight, an end-to-end skills-first workforce transformation offering for large employers, providing strategy consulting, role analysis and recredentialing, sustained adoption support, and workforce infrastructure building. The proprietary Jobs Engine powers precision talent matching, while a Career Marketplace connects skilled candidates without four-year degrees to employer opportunities.

Product overview

OneTen operates SkillsRight as its primary platform—a unified skills-first workforce transformation system designed to help organizations shift from degree-based to skills-based hiring. The platform comprises multiple integrated components: the core SkillsRight platform providing strategic consulting and methodology, the proprietary Jobs Engine for precision talent matching and role analysis, the Career Marketplace and Career Hub portals for career seekers, and workforce infrastructure tools for sustained adoption. The company also produces research publications on credential fluency and skills-first hiring practices in partnership with organizations like Burning Glass Institute and The Conference Board.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SkillsRight A skills-first workforce transformation offering for large employers, providing end-to-end support including market alignment, role recredentialing, sustained adoption, and workforce infrastructure development to help organizations shift from degree-based to skills-based hiring.
• Career Marketplace (Career Hub) A career marketplace and integrated career management portal within SkillsRight that connects skilled career seekers (workers without four-year degrees) with employment opportunities aligned to their skills and provides career resources.

Quantifiable outcome

• Employers with credential fluency hire credentialed workers 11 percentage points more often than lowest performers

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Burning Glass InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 March 2026OneTen and Burning Glass Institute released a joint research report examining how employers use non-degree credentials in hiring decisions. The report analyzes hiring patterns across more than 1,000 large U.S. employers and focuses on credential fluency as a competitive advantage in talent acquisition.
• The Conference BoardcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 November 2025OneTen and The Conference Board co-authored a report advocating for a skills-first approach in hiring. The report emphasizes assessing candidates' abilities over traditional credentials amid AI-driven work transformations and talent shortages.
• National Governors Association (NGA) CenterflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 25 September 2025NGA Center is expanding its Skills in the States initiative in Fall 2025 to promote skills-first hiring and talent management strategies across public and private sectors. OneTen is collaborating as part of Business Roundtable's involvement to strengthen cross-sector workforce development through data-driven approaches and policy frameworks.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Lightcast (formerly Burning Glass): Labor-market data and analytics firm providing job-posting insights and skills taxonomy used widely by employers. Adjacent enabling player — OneTen's research partnership with the related Burning Glass Institute underscores the comparability.

Broad incumbents

• iCIMS: Enterprise talent acquisition platform with skills matching, candidate matching, and ATS capabilities. Comparable to SkillsRight on the employer-facing side of skills-first recruiting workflows.
• LinkedIn Talent Solutions: LinkedIn's recruiting and talent intelligence products, including skills-based hiring features, compete with SkillsRight by reaching employers through the largest professional network globally.
• Workday: Major HCM/SaaS incumbent whose Workday Skills Cloud embeds skills-first capabilities across HR, recruiting, and learning. Overlaps with SkillsRight's role recredentialing and workforce infrastructure offerings but as part of a much broader enterprise suite.

Direct peers

• HireVue: Skills-based assessment and video interviewing platform focused on helping employers evaluate candidates on skills rather than pedigree. Overlaps with SkillsRight's role recredentialing and precision matching value proposition.
• Opportunity@Work: Non-profit applying labor-market research to expand opportunities for STARs (workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes). Closest peer to OneTen: similar mission-driven, data-led approach to skills-first hiring and employer engagement.
• Eightfold AI: AI-powered talent intelligence platform that matches people to roles based on skills rather than credentials. Direct competitor in the skills-first hiring space, with deeper enterprise SaaS infrastructure.
• Harver (Pymetrics): Pre-hire assessment and matching platform that evaluates candidates on skills and traits. Comparable to SkillsRight in helping employers reduce degree requirements and identify qualified non-traditional candidates.

Emerging players

• Guild Education: Education benefits platform connecting employees of large employers to skills training and degree programs. Adjacent to OneTen's workforce transformation thesis, particularly the incumbent worker upskilling component.
• Multiverse: Apprenticeship and skills-based training provider working with enterprises to hire and upskill non-degree talent. Comparable to OneTen's talent partner ecosystem and Career Marketplace in the apprenticeship/skills pathway space.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/OneTen
• Facebookfacebook.com/OneTenCoalition
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/onetencoalition

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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