Lockdown-era graduates have had it bad enough, forced to study alone on Zoom during the pandemic rather than share the valuable coming-of-age university experience enjoyed by their parents. Now they’re about to find out the university diploma they paid a pretty penny for is no longer even in demand.
According to new research from LinkedIn, skills now trump degrees in the eyes of recruiters. In fact, the share of job ads in the U.K. that didn’t list the qualification as a requirement surged by 90% on the platform between 2021 and 2022. Meanwhile, recruiters globally are now five times more likely to search for new hires by skills over higher education.
