{"id":73321,"date":"2020-12-13T12:21:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T17:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=73321"},"modified":"2020-12-13T12:21:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T17:21:25","slug":"ceo-group-stresses-skills-over-degrees-in-hiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/12\/13\/ceo-group-stresses-skills-over-degrees-in-hiring\/","title":{"rendered":"CEO group stresses skills over degrees in hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/ceo-group-stresses-skills-over-degrees-in-hiring\/592075\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CEO group stresses skills over degrees in hiring<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from highereddive.com by Natalie Schwartz<\/p>\n<p class=\"standard-heading\"><strong>Dive Brief:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Business Roundtable, a nonprofit representing CEOs of major U.S. companies,\u00a0announced\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessroundtable.org\/business-roundtable-launches-initiative-to-place-greater-emphasis-on-skills-in-hiring-and-advancement-improve-equity-and-diversity-in-employment\">a new initiative<\/a>\u00a0this week to recognize skills, rather than only college degrees, in the hiring process.<\/li>\n<li>More than 80 member companies have signed onto the initiative.\u00a0In addition to implementing new recruitment strategies, they also are updating training programs to help employees gain the skills they need for promotions.<\/li>\n<li>The news comes as more large companies launch training programs and as many employers look to education benefits to help retain their workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO group stresses skills over degrees in hiring &#8212; from highereddive.com by Natalie Schwartz Dive Brief:\u00a0 Business Roundtable, a nonprofit representing CEOs of major U.S. companies,\u00a0announced\u00a0a new initiative\u00a0this week to recognize skills, rather than only college degrees, in the hiring process. More than 80 member companies have signed onto the initiative.\u00a0In addition to implementing new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,842,174,86,389,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-learning","category-alternatives","category-career-development","category-change","category-competency-based-learning-education","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73322,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73321\/revisions\/73322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}