In just about every job, workers’ skills are more important than where they went to college—or, as is increasingly the case, whether they went to college at all.
A tight labor market in which the number of open jobs exceeded that of workers looking to fill them led more and more employers, including Fortune 500 companies like Google, IBM, and Apple, to eschew long-standing degree requirements for applicants. And the wide availability of remote work during the pandemic has opened the floodgates for skills-based jobs.
