<ul><li>In the pursuit of talent and diversity, companies have shifted towards skills-based hiring, eliminating college degree requirements from job postings.</li><li>However, there's a significant gap between rhetoric and action. While job ads have changed, actual hiring practices remain largely unchanged. The inertia stems from the lack of reliable screening tools, leading hiring managers to default to degree requirements.</li><li>Yet, research shows that hires without degrees are more likely to stay. To facilitate skills-based hiring, companies should celebrate successes, reverse-engineer achievements, define requirements clearly, redesign onboarding processes, promote from within, and acknowledge where degrees are genuinely necessary.</li></ul>

What Companies Get Wrong About Skills-Based Hiring

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