For most companies skills-based hiring is pretty much all talk, report finds. (WorkLife)
Many companies are failing to make good on pledges to increase skills-based hiring and drop college degree requirements. About half of employers continued hiring the same proportion of degreed candidates after removing education prerequisites from job postings. Some even backslid after initial progress.
Experts say risk-averse corporate cultures and lack of support for frontline hiring managers are key obstacles. Walmart, Target, Yelp and Cigna are among the minority of firms actually hiring more non-degreed workers under skills-first initiatives. Providing accountability, goals and training around evaluating candidates differently is crucial.
While degree requirements are declining in most occupations, properly assessing skills remains a challenge. Still, skills-based hiring can widen talent pools and boost retention. But rhetoric must be matched by action at all levels of an organization. Simply removing degree requirements is not enough without fundamentally changing how candidates are evaluated.
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