Work It Podcast: Skills over certificates? How skills-based hiring will change the hunt for talent

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Work It Podcast: Skills over certificates? How skills-based hiring will change the hunt for talent
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How relevant are strong paper qualifications when applying for a job?

Looking for a job or trying to nail it at your current one? Host Tiffany Ang and career counsellor Gerald Tan help navigate your important - and sometimes thorny - work life questions.Good grades and a fancy degree may not be enough to get you that dream job or sustain a successful career.

I have a project director who runs very large-scale, complex engineering designs. When I first hired him, he came to me with a Higher Nitec and he was a draftsman. For example, if I'm hiring a customer success manager, what I'll do is I'll take a real case, problem, situation, or crisis that I'm dealing with.

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