Skills-Based Hiring

Skills-based hiring focuses on what people can do rather than pedigree; outcome-based screening is the technical mechanism that makes it real.

Glossary

A plain-language definition from the Curriculo hiring glossary.

The McKinsey work summarized in The shape of talent in 2023 and 2024 shows skills-based hiring adoption climbing from 40% in 2020 to about 60% in 2024, and outcome-based screening is the technical mechanism that makes skills-based hiring real instead of aspirational.

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