Don’t Hire Skills—Hire to Skill

For years, a disconnect between higher education and the workforce has been growing. Employers have long complained that they cannot find the talent they need among recent college graduates, citing a dearth of workers who have the kinds of skills needed for today's workplace demands. For many companies, it is a daily struggle to match open roles with qualified and diverse talent. And yet little has changed in how companies identify candidates. They rely on colleges and universities to craft talent pipelines for them but lament about what those pipelines produce.