When Employers Hire Based on Skills: A Conversation with Matt Sigelman

As the cost of higher education climbs, skills-based hiring has gained traction. It's a labor market trend in which employers hire based on applicants' skills, with the understanding that degrees are not the only way to acquire competencies. Skills-based hiring has the potential to increase equity in the hiring process, providing avenues to socio-economic mobility for historically marginalized populations. However, there are also questions about whether the movement could demotivate students from pursuing two- or four-year degrees that may be more transferable to other jobs. To learn more about skills-based hiring across education and workforce training domains, Leigh Parise talks with Matt Sigelman, President of the Burning Glass Institute, which studies economic and workforce trends.

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When Employers Hire Based on Skills: A Conversation with Matt Sigelman is an episode from Evidence First by MDRC.

This episode is 24:30 long.

This episode was published on Dec 21, 2023.

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