Skills-Based Hiring

Bridging The Gap Between Theory & Practice

The concept of skills-based hiring has emerged as a pivotal strategy within the industry, reaching across all sectors and impacting the contemporary workforce landscape.

While the approach is gaining traction due to its apparent potential to address critical challenges such as talent shortages, defining and implementing skills-based hiring uniformly across all roles presents inherent difficulties due to the vast diversity in job functions, industries, and organisational cultures.  

This report summarises the key findings and practice considerations for organisations embarking on embedding a skills-first approach. 

• 11 qualitative interviews + two discussion groups with Heads of Talent Acquisition
• Industries:  Retail, finance, food and beverage, utilities, technology and healthcare

Developed in partnership with:

• Adrian Thomas: Talent Acquisition and Resourcing Leader
• Matt Alder, Talent Acquisition Futurist and host of "The Recruiting Future Podcast"

To download your copy of the report, simply fill out the form.