Skills-Based Hiring: How to Screen for Skills Instead of Degrees
How to build a skills-based hiring process, from rewriting job postings to adding a consistent skills check, that screens for ability instead of degrees.
Workfloor
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Talent Acquisition Lead
10+ years experience
Sam Okafor has spent a decade in recruiting and talent acquisition, running full-cycle hiring for early-stage startups and later leading a regional recruiting team inside a larger company. Sam has built hiring processes from a single shared spreadsheet up through full applicant tracking system rollouts, and has strong, hard-won opinions about which parts of that journey are worth the switch and which aren't. Sam also spends a lot of time on the underrated half of hiring — onboarding — after watching too many good hires quietly disengage in their first 90 days because no one had a real plan for them. At Workfloor, Sam covers hiring process, recruiting tools, and onboarding.
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