Skills-Based Hiring: More Rhetoric or a New Reality?

Linkedin Talent Development VP Linda Jingfang Cai, The Burning Glass Institute President Matthew Sigelman, Gloat Insights and Impact VP Jeff Schwartz, Handshake Chief Education Strategy Officer Christine Cruzvergara, and JFF President & CEO Maria Flynn discuss skills-based hiring at the 2023 ASU+GSV Summit.

Skills-based hiring has long been touted as a priority for employers, but has the reality finally caught up with the rhetoric? With the emergence of skills-intelligence platforms, a proliferation of data, and skills providers, we are now in a new world where skills-based hiring can become the de facto way employers source and hire new talent.