Research Methodology
WIL develops and evaluates measures for five workforce research domains. The domains organize research questions and evidence; they are not commercial products, certifications, proprietary scores, or decision engines.
Validation is an accumulating record of testing, challenge, revision, replication, and possible retirement—not a permanent badge. Every claim remains bounded by a defined population, geography, period, evidence base, and known limitations.
1Five research measurement domains
The Institutional Strategy Roadmap establishes the following public methodology architecture. Each domain links to a full registry record.
Workforce Availability and Capacity Measurement
What labor is present, accessible, and plausibly available for incremental demand?
View record →Labor-Market Pressure and Competition
How concentrated and competitive is demand relative to relevant supply?
View record →Compensation Dynamics
How are pay conditions changing, for whom, where, and over what period?
View record →Project Demand and Infrastructure Constraints
How do investment and infrastructure conditions alter workforce requirements?
View record →Workforce-Related Delivery Risk and Outcomes
Which workforce conditions are associated with schedule, hiring, cost, continuity, or delivery outcomes?
View record →2Research-method lifecycle
Proposed · In development · Under review · Active · Revised · Retired. A status applies to a defined method and use. A method is not made Active because a stronger label would look more complete.
3Validation standard
WIL treats every measure or method as a testable research claim. The institution states in advance what evidence would count against it and preserves negative or inconvenient findings.
| Dimension | Question |
|---|---|
| Construct validity | Does the measure represent the concept it claims to measure? |
| Predictive validity | Does the measure anticipate a defined outcome without future-data leakage? |
| External validity | Do results generalize across defined markets, occupations, industries, or periods? |
| Reliability | Is the measurement consistent across repeated or independent implementation? |
| Replicability | Can another researcher reproduce the result from the documented record? |
| Sensitivity | How do results respond to assumptions, definitions, missingness, and time windows? |
4What a registry record preserves
- Identity and version. Stable name, owner, version, effective date, and superseded versions.
- Research purpose. Construct, intended use, exclusions, and unit of analysis.
- Evidence and rights. Sources, lineage, coverage, permitted use, and publication constraints.
- Specification. Inputs, transformations, assumptions, uncertainty, and evidence states.
- Testing record. Tests, results, limitations, open questions, review decisions, and negative findings.
- Affected publications. Outputs using the method and comparability implications of revisions.
5WIL and AlphaHire
WIL conducts independent research: it develops questions, studies workforce conditions, evaluates measures, documents assumptions, publishes findings, and may revise or retire weak methods. AlphaHire separately applies workforce intelligence commercially through its own models and decision frameworks.
WIL may study, test, critique, replicate, or evaluate an AlphaHire method where source rights, research protocols, and conflict disclosures permit. That work does not make the commercial method a WIL-owned methodology or imply WIL endorsement.
Legacy registry treatment. Branded indexes, matrices, and framework names from the prior AlphaHire/WIL architecture no longer organize WIL research. Useful research questions have been mapped into the five domains; commercial methods remain attributed to AlphaHire; historical references remain only where record integrity requires them.