How to Use Skill Proxies When You Lack Direct Experience

Career Skills with Fexingo: Hard Skills, Soft Skills, and Future-Proofing Your Career · Jun 2, 2026 · 8m · transcript

In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the concept of skill proxies — substitute experiences that prove you have a capability even when you've never held the job title. Using the real-world example of a teacher who landed a corporate training role by treating classroom management as project management, they break down how to identify, frame, and present skill proxies in interviews and on resumes. They also discuss the research from Harvard Business Review showing that hiring managers who evaluate proxies instead of exact matches make 30 percent more accurate predictions of on-the-job…