HIRING SKILLS CHALLENGE
42% of resumes companies receive are from candidates who don’t meet skills requirements.
78% of workers would apply for a job if they don’t match all the qualifications.
How open employers are to hiring and training someone who lacks required skills:
| 14% Very open |
| 70% Somewhat open |
| 17% Not open at all |
(Responses do not total 100 percent due to rounding.)
62% of workers have been offered a job when they didn’t meet all the requirements.
Cities where this has happened most often:
| #1: Charlotte |
| #2: San Diego |
| #3: Austin, Washington, D.C. (tie) |
Source: Robert Half surveys of more than 300 HR managers and more than 2,800 workers in the United States
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