Skills-Based Hiring: What Employers Really Want from New Grads

Published: 05.13.2025

The job market is changing. Increasingly, employers are looking beyond traditional hiring practices like GPAs or job titles and focusing instead on skills-based recruitment—evaluating what candidates can do, not just where they’ve been.

At a recent …

By Emily Flositz
Emily Flositz Career Development Training Specialist
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