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workforce strategy

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, The Future of Work

Expertise Is Out There, You Just Need to Access It

Illustration of key - symbolizing access to expertise. The key is bright green on a dark blue background.

Here is a question worth sitting with for a moment: when a business stalls, what actually went wrong?

The most common answers tend to involve the usual suspects – cash flow, market timing, leadership. And sure, those things matter. But there’s a subtler failure mode that doesn’t make the autopsy report as often as it should. It’s not that the talent didn’t exist. It’s that you didn’t have access to expertise – the right expertise – when you needed it most.

That’s a meaningful distinction. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

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