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Skills-based hiring: promise vs practice
Among firms that dropped degree requirements, only 37% actually changed who they hired; 45% changed in name only and 18% backslid.
Source: Burning Glass Institute & Harvard · Skills-Based Hiring: The Long Road from Pronouncements to Practice (2024) [67]
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