Skills
Articles on Skills from the CalHire team: verified skills, anonymous-first hiring, and audit-ready process.
Does your assessment predict anything? Validity for non-specialists
An assessment that feels rigorous can predict nothing. What validity and reliability mean, how to check yours, and the four ways hiring tests quietly break.
July 30, 2026
Dropping the degree requirement: what has to replace it
Removing a degree requirement without replacing the signal makes hiring more subjective, not less. What the degree was doing, and what to measure instead.
July 30, 2026
How to get hired without a degree
A practical guide to competing on demonstrated skill: what to build, how to describe it, which employers to target, and how to handle the question directly.
July 30, 2026
How to write a skills-based job description
Most job descriptions are a wish-list of proxies. How to write one around measurable skills, plus the language patterns that quietly shrink your applicant pool.
July 30, 2026
Structured interviews: the highest-return change most teams never make
Same questions, same order, same rubric, scored independently. Structured interviews are unglamorous, uncomfortable to adopt, and the best value in hiring.
July 30, 2026
What skills-based hiring actually is (and what it is not)
Skills-based hiring decides on demonstrated ability, not proxies like degrees or job titles. What it means in practice, where it fails, and how to run it well.
July 30, 2026
Why we deleted the résumé
The résumé rewards pedigree and is trivial to embellish. Here is the case for a verified, portable skills profile that proves what someone can actually do.
June 12, 2026