#skills-based-hiring

#skills-based-hiring

Employers emphasize skills learned in higher education over content, highlighting the need for students to adapt and respond to the evolving workplace. This shift often derives from degree inflation and the adjusting requirements of jobs that necessitate postsecondary education.

Around 90% of CHROs now say their organization has a greater need to hire outside the four-year college degree, according to a new survey of over 1,000 HR decision-makers from ETS, an education testing company.