Inexperienced job applicants face “their best odds of success in years” as employers drop work-history and degree requirements. That’s according to Kelsey Gee, writing for the Wall Street Journal.
Fewer people are looking for work, so in order to speed up hiring and to enlarge their pools of candidates, employers are making other changes as well: “skipping drug tests or criminal background checks, or removing preferences for a higher degree or high-school diploma.”
A skilled applicant should ideally “rise to the top” in a tight labor market (assuming that the article is correct, that there really is a tight market).
This development may end up putting greater power into the hands of a job applicant — who may well evaluate a company for suitability, the way a company evaluates an applicant.
So if an employer is serious about wanting to improve the quality of its recruitments, it needs to examine policies and practices that make it difficult for skilled applicants to be hired and brought on-board.
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