BAP Professional Partner Representative
Brett Waikart, CEO and Co-founder
BAP Professional Partner Organization: Skillfully
About Skillfully
Skillfully is a professional-development and skill validation platform that helps members hone critical professional skills. Skillfully's on-demand platform and programming empower you to boost your accounting and finance career-readiness by completing “skill challenges'' that simulate real-world work scenarios. You’ll practice relevant skills and invest in your professional success! Join their member community of over 15,000 strong.
What You’ll Gain with Skillfully
- Improve professional preparedness
- Identify strengths through science-backed self-discovery assessments.
- Build your professional presence with interactive workshops led by career coaches and industry experts.
- Demystify careers and improve industry fluency
- Gain insight into different careers through case-based skill challenges that simulate real-world tasks and projects.
- Strengthen relevant skills alongside a community of driven, like-minded peers.
- Show off your skills and get hired now
- Earn skill badges and amplify your career connections with Skillfullly’s employer partners.
- Network and interview with confidence with practical recruitment preparation resources.
About Brett Waikart
Brett Waikart is the CEO and Co-founder of Skillfully, a Public Benefit Corporation that's on a mission to build a fairer and more inclusive future of work. The Skillfully platform generates customizable virtual simulations that help employers see applicants’ skills in action during the hiring process, letting them look past traditional resumes to see real applicant skills in action and spend more time with great talent.
Prior to Skillfully, Brett founded and led Portfolios with Purpose, an edtech non-profit that used realistic virtual simulations to help young students develop critical financial and investment literacy skills. Brett lives in San Francisco and can be found surfing, sailing or sliding down the side of a mountain most weekends.
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Beta Alpha Psi is an organization that links student to the profession in a meaningful way. I appreciate the opportunity to give back to students to help them prepare the next step in the journey.
Katherine Acuff
People & Culture Lead, Campus
BDO USA LLP
