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How to Hire Based on Skills
Download our free guide on building a stronger workforce by removing unnecessary degree requirements and hiring STARs.
Discover 5 key ways to improve your talent strategy by tapping into a diverse pool of workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes, or STARs.
Proactively hiring more STARs with tools like Stellarworx, our skills-first matching platform
Removing unnecessary degree requirements that block career growth
Developing pathways for STARs in your organization and local workforce
Engaging with local talent developers to source and hire STARs
Building a culture of belonging so STARs can thrive in your workplace
Why Hire Based on Skills?
Don’t screen out half the workforce
While a bachelor’s degree is the most commonly recognized pathway to high-wage work, it isn’t the most common route to building critical skills. Seventy million STARs develop valuable skills through work experience, credentialed training, apprenticeships, and other alternative routes.
From 2000 to 2020, STARs were excluded from 7.4 million high-quality roles they had the skills to perform. These positions are now filled by college graduates. This shift has helped displace over half the U.S. workforce from jobs that offered upward mobility and economic security.
STARs have the skills for middle- and high-wage roles. Imagine the talent employers could access by removing unnecessary degree requirements from job descriptions.
Let’s change the way we hire.
Hiring STARs is diverse hiring
Bachelor’s degree requirements automatically screen out half the workforce, disproportionately affecting minorities, veterans, women, rural workers, and many others. You simply cannot build a more diverse workforce without incorporating STARs into your hiring strategy.
Action begins with insight. Download our guide to learn how shifting to a hiring strategy based on evaluating relevant skills and experience can help you fill open roles with diverse, qualified talent while helping STARs find quality jobs with a pathway to the middle class.
Ready to hire STARs? Check out our skills-first talent matching platform.
