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Building a Skills-Based Talent Marketplace: Verifiable Credentials Wallets for Learning and Employment | Jobs for the Future (JFF)

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If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  The 47-page report explores the transformative potential of digital wallets that store verifiable credentials in reshaping education, workforce development, and hiring. These wallets empower individuals to manage their professional identities, communicate skills more comprehensively, and access new career opportunities. By enabling job seekers …

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The Future of Recruiting 2025 Report: How AI Redefines Recruiting Excellence | LinkedIn Report

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If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter.  AI continues to transform most aspects of the human resources function. I previously shared my one-page infographic highlighting multiple AI use cases within HR, including recruiting, where AI streamlines tasks and allows recruiters to focus more on strategic work. The LinkedIn 2025 Future of …

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Can You Go Home Again? Performance Assistance Between Boomerangs and Incumbent Employees | Organization Science

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If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Talent acquisition (TA) professionals continue to source talent from untapped pools to uncover “hidden” top talent. One often-overlooked group is former employees—commonly known as “boomerang employees”—who possess the skills their previous organization values and a desire to return. This recent study …

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9 Questions for Evaluating if Degrees Are Required for a Role | Brian Heger

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If you find value in content like this, sign up for my Talent Edge Weekly newsletter. Numerous headlines highlight the shift toward skills-based hiring, where organizations prioritize skills over traditional credentials like academic degrees. But does removing degree requirements actually increase the hiring of candidates without degrees? A Harvard Business School and Burning Glass Institute report analyzing 11,300 roles found that …

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How is Your Organization Measuring Quality of Hire? | Brian Heger

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Talent acquisition teams rely on various metrics to gauge the effectiveness of their recruiting and hiring practices. While tactical metrics like time to hire, candidates per hire, and offer acceptance rate are commonly used for their ease of measurement, strategic metrics, such as quality of hire (QoH), are harder to measure. According to the 2024 …

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How Part-Time Senior Leaders Can Help Your Business | Harvard Business Review

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As organizations continue to find creative ways to build leadership capability, one strategy gaining appeal is the notion of fractional leaders—experienced professionals, often with decades of expertise, who offer their skills to multiple firms without the full-time cost. As this new HBR article points out, a LinkedIn search found that “as of early 2024, more than 110,000 individuals identified …

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5 Reasons Why Companies Should Launch an Alumni Network | World Economic Forum

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Is re-recruiting former employees part of your talent strategy? Many organizations recruit from untapped talent pools to gain a competitive edge, yet they often overlook rehiring former employees. This is a missed opportunity, as a study in the Academy of Management Journal found that former employees often outperform new hires, especially in roles requiring strong relational skills and internal coordination. While not …

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Experience the Difference: Why Employers Are Relaxing Some Tenure Requirements | Economic Research by Indeed

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Organizations continue to report an increasing focus on skills-based hiring, prioritizing candidates’ skills over traditional credentials like academic degrees. A report by Burning Glass Institute and Harvard Business School showed that from 2014 to 2023, the annual number of job advertisements that eliminated academic degree requirements from job descriptions quadrupled. However, the same report highlights an analysis of 11,300 …

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What Companies Get Wrong About Skills-Based Hiring | Harvard Business Review

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Many organizations are increasingly focusing on skills-based hiring, where they prioritize candidates’ skills over traditional credentials such as academic degrees. However, does eliminating degree requirements from job postings lead to increased hiring of candidates without degrees? A new study analyzing 11,300 roles at large firms, covering at least one year before and after the removal …

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Realizing the Potential of Global Digital Jobs | World Economic Forum

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This new 35-page report explores how the rise of digital jobs—those that can be done fully or mostly remotely— can help organizations fill talent shortages by connecting skilled workers from regions with a talent surplus to those with labor shortages. To help organizations tap the potential of this opportunity, the paper identifies 1) key barriers, 2) risks, 3) solutions, and 4) mitigation actions …

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