IN-DEPTH: Employment Experts Discuss Disconnect Between Useful Skills and Academic Degrees

Experts share their thoughts on the emerging skills-based hiring trend and new career opportunities in the US job market.

Signage for a job fair on 5th Avenue after the release of the jobs report in Manhattan on Sept. 3, 2021. Andrew Kelly/Reuters

A growing number of employers are shifting their focus to skills-based hiring from degree-based hiring. Three employment experts told The Epoch Times their thoughts on the emerging skills-based hiring trend and the new career opportunities it presents in the United States’ evolving job market.

In 2017, a Harvard Business School survey said: “Jobs do not require four-year college degrees. Employers do.”