“Skills-based hiring can bolster workers with valuable workplace and lived experience that often contributes more to success on the job than traditional pedigree-focused hiring criteria. It is also a way to fill critical employment gaps while providing much-needed pathways to upward economic mobility.”

Read more from Convergence Dialogue on Pathways to Better Jobs participants, Deeneaus Polk and Jenna Shrove, on how skills-based hiring can lend a benefit to both employers and employees.