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skills-based hiring

FlexTal
In Hiring Strategy

The Skills-Based Hiring Gap

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Skills-based hiring is having a moment. Job postings are dropping degree requirements. LinkedIn has rebuilt entire search filters around it. Roughly three-quarters of recruiters now call it a top hiring priority for 2026. Read enough coverage and you would think this is a brand-new idea, something HR just invented. It isn’t. Independent professionals have been hired this way for years. Nobody brings on a freelance video editor or a fractional CFO based on where they went to school. The freelance world has been running a skills-based hiring model the whole time. Full-time hiring is just now catching up, and the data shows the catch-up is slower than the headlines suggest.

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FlexTal
In Hiring Strategy, Strategy & Business, The Future of Work

Is the Résumé Dead? Long Live Skills-Based Hiring

image of a human juggling icons that represent skills. The figure is orange, the icons are an orange gear, blue check-mark, and orange and blue wrench and pencil.

Remember when hiring managers used to swoon over Ivy League degrees? These days, they care more about who can stop the app from crashing or make sales spike. Welcome to the era of skills-based hiring – where knowing how to get things done beats knowing where you learned it. Because while diplomas look great in a frame – and make for polite conversation starters when viewed in your Zoom background – results look even better on a balance sheet.

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