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The job description is the last thing that should change when you adopt skills-based hiring. Not the first. That's the argument Kelly Director of DEI Strategic Partnerships, Marvin Figaro, makes after 20-plus years in the talent space. He's watched organizations remove degree requirements, update some copy, and call it a skills-based initiative, while recruiters keep sourcing from the same three channels and hiring managers keep interviewing the way they always have. Then, companies blame the model for outcomes their own process created. Marvin breaks down what really needs to change for skills-based hiring to work, including how to build consistency across the hiring chain, where to pilot first, and why updating the job description should be step five, not step one. Read more at the link in comments.