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Skills-based hiring: do we even need degrees for jobs now?

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This shift towards skill-based hiring is reshaping how companies evaluate potential employees, emphasizing practical skills and real-world experience over formal education. Hiring managers will also receive training and tools to implement this new strategy effectively. The advantages of skill-based hiring are manifold.

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What is Learning Agility & How to Assess It

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Technology, specifically, is changing faster than most of us can keep up with, and the same set of skills that made a candidate a “superstar” in 2024 may not be relevant in 2025. However, as a recruiter or hiring manager, being able to spot that in a candidate can be difficult. What is learning agility?

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The Ultimate List of 20 Hiring Best Practices

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Hiring best practices refer to established and tested methods for attracting, selecting, and onboarding the best candidates for an organization’s job openings. Following these practices, HR can reduce their cost and time of hire, increase hiring quality, and enhance the overall recruitment process.

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3 Ways Skills-Based Hiring Helps Combat the Gender Gap

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And traditional hiring processes are doing very little to help combat this disparity. In recent years, we’ve experienced many global players — including Apple, Hilton, Google, and more — shift to skills-based hiring practices to guarantee the best candidate for the role, free of bias and assumed suitability.

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4 Examples of Gender Discrimination in Hiring Practices — And How To Fix It

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Despite there being greater attention given to gender equality in the workplace in recent years, the sad truth is that gender bias continues to influence hiring decisions globally. According to Harvard Business Review, women are 79 times more likely to be hired when at least two female applicants are on the shortlist.

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A Beginner’s Guide To Technical Skills Based Hiring

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Now, technical skills-based hiring is on the rise thanks to its wide range of benefits. In an age where the labor market has tipped in favor of candidates, recruiters are getting creative with ways to identify a good hire. For too long, recruitment decisions have relied on degrees and resumes.

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The Top 22 AI Tools for Talent Acquisition To Perfect Your Hiring

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Analysts estimate that the market for AI in recruitment will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 7% until 2025, as talent acquisition teams seek solutions to help speed up the recruiting process, predict employee success, improve the candidate experience, and increase diversity.