Editor’s Note: Ryan Roslansky is CEO of LinkedIn. Byron Auguste is CEO of Opportunity@Work. The opinions expressed in this commentary are their own. The urgent business case for finding new ways of hiring has never been clearer. The demand for workers in the US is outpacing the supply, and finding the best talent is going to be increasingly difficult as the world navigates a period of heightened economic uncertainty.
These are the 70 million workers who are skilled through alternative routes, such as community college, military service, workforce training programs, skills bootcamps and learning on the job – rather than through a bachelor’s degree. LinkedIn data suggests that certain industries – like professional services, finance and tech – are some of the hardest sectors for workers without bachelor’s degrees to break into.
Box checking do you mean how woke corporations hire based on race + gender that type of box checking
That means employers have to use more extensive skill and knowledge testing of applicants.
IMHO, college degree was always box-checking. We mostly looked at experience in things we were hiring someone for.
But how will the reeducation happen?
Nice distraction from todays inflation numbers
Don't forget a massive non-reconcilable loan of five-to-six figures
Hell yeah! I’m ready to be a surgeon
Does CNN require a degree in journalism to be a reporter?