Eightyโone percent of employers say they are using skillsโbased hiring. Yet a major longitudinal study found that all those changes translated into just 0.14 more nonโdegreed hires per role over almost a decade, roughly one additional nonโdegreed hire for every 700 roles filled.
If you are an HR or TA leader, that means almost every โskillsโbasedโ requisition you have touched in the last decade played out exactly as it would have with degree requirements in place. The organization talks about skills, access, and opportunity; the system snaps back to degrees, proxies, and gut feel the moment a real requisition hits the workflow.