IT Careers: Does Skills-Based Hiring Really Work?
InformationWeek, Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
More organizations are moving toward skills-based hiring and getting mixed results. Here's how to avoid some of the pitfalls.
Skills-based hiring can be a blessing or a curse, depending on how it' s implemented. Before the pandemic, the speed of business was already accelerating continuously. The pandemic followed, forcing companies to become an extreme form of agile. Both those trends remain true today.
So why skills-based hiring? It makes the organization more agile and resilient, and it provides employees with greater opportunities for growth.