Skills-Based Hiring: Increasing Access to Opportunity in APAC
The March 2025 LinkedIn report on skills-based hiring highlights a growing shift towards prioritising skills over traditional qualifications in the hiring process.
As companies across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region face talent shortages and evolving workforce demands, many are adopting a skills-first approach to recruitment. This strategy not only expands talent pools but also improves diversity and internal mobility, ensuring that organisations remain competitive in an increasingly skills-driven job market.
The top-line takeaway? Adopting a skills-first approach can significantly broaden and expand the talent pool.
Want to find out more? Check out the report here! https://economicgraph.linkedin.com/content/dam/me/economicgraph/en-us/PDF/skills-based-hiring-march-2025.pdf
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2 天前Clearly skills based hiring can help to expand the talent pool and also open up doors for candidates who have adjacent skills. The question is how can organisation move towards skills based approach at scale, not only to match but also validate the skills and more importantly how do we get the recruiters (to start with) and hiring managers bought onto this. Some strategies i cover in #theskillsadvantage
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