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Employers Including Blackstone, Walmart, And Microsoft, Increasing Focus On Skills Over College Degrees
April 28, 2025/
Workforce development firm Burning Glass insists that skills, rather than degrees, are the key to job success. Its new skill-specific job description language could be a game changer for 11 million jobs ranging from software engineer and financial manager to customer service.
“Just being able to understand and define the skills required for a job, it sounds simple but it’s actually a really big exercise,” says Matt Sigelman, president of the Burning Glass Institute.
ByMaria Gracia Santillana Linares,
Forbes Staff
