INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIELD

For many years, recruitment has placed a lot of importance on academic degrees as a sign of a person's knowledge and ability to do a job. However, rapid changes in technology, changing job requirements, and shortages of skilled workers, and the increasing importance of practical competencies have helped increase the use of skills-based hiring this greater emphasis on communication and job related skill rather than treating formal educational credentials as the primary screening mechanism. Drawing on recent research from the Harvard Business School Project on Managing the Future of Work, the Burning Glass Institute, the World Economic Forum, and Indeed Hiring Lab, the study finds evidence that educational requirements have declined in a significant proportion of job postings. However, the evidence also demonstrates an important distinction between removing degree requirements from job advertisements and actually changing hiring outcomes.

Effective skills-based hiring requires organisations to redesign job descriptions, assessment methods, talent sourcing, interviews, and internal career pathways. At the same time, academic degrees remain essential or highly relevant for numerous regulated and specialized occupations. The emerging employment model is therefore better understood as a movement toward greater balance between educational credentials and demonstrated competencies rather than the complete disappearance of degrees from the labour market.