With the right solutions in place, ones that value speed, flexibility, and fairer evaluation, you can empower your early talent at the very start of their careers. HireVue allows teams to evaluate the soft skills candidates could very well possess that can prove influential to building a successful career.

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Ditching degrees and hiring for retention

Your next early talent hire could be the company’s future CEO! While GPAs and degrees certainly play a role in an academic setting and certain careers, like the medical field, applying the same set of evaluations to your hiring can alienate an entire pool of qualified candidates.

At the end of the day, degrees and alma maters shed no light on the skills candidates do or don’t possess.

And when three-quarters of companies find filling open roles challenging, including nearly every industry like healthcare, finance, IT, and consumer goods, a more effective way of evaluating talent is needed—one with retention top of mind.

According to a Harvard Business report, “Comprising occupations that range from Construction Managers and Sales Supervisors to Web Developers and IT Help Desk Specialists, these roles could open at least 250,000 more jobs to non-degreed workers were employers to drop their degree requirements fully.”

And according to that same report, the impact of skills-based hiring is powerful for employees and candidates. For candidates without degrees hired into roles that no longer have degree requirements, they’re not only receiving a 25% salary increase, but their employers see a 10% higher two-year retention rate vs college-educated coworkers.

Come alongside your early talent with the technology that assesses their skills and supports their career growth. You’ll build an empowered early career employee base—one that feels valued as people, not just employees.

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