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- May 13, 2024
- Harvard Business Review Digital Articles
What Companies Get Wrong About Skills-Based Hiring
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Sigelman
Abstract
In recent years companies have removed college-degree requirements from many of their job postings. They’ve done this for good reason: Talent is scarce, and requiring degrees eliminates almost two-thirds of workers from consideration, a disproportionate number of them Black and Hispanic. But there’s a problem: For every 100 of these new postings, fewer than four additional candidates without degrees are actually hired. The authors of this article argue that it’s time to do more to make skills-based hiring a reality, and they present six ways that companies and hiring managers can do so.
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Fuller, Joseph B., and Matthew Sigelman. "What Companies Get Wrong About Skills-Based Hiring." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (May 13, 2024).