There has been a lot of talk recently about skills-based hiring (SBH). In effect, you hire people because of their skills and competencies instead of experience or educational background. For years, a pre-requisite for many of the roles that we recruited for our clients was that the candidate had a degree, whether the degree was relevant to the role or not. For example, for sales or business development roles, the type of degree was not as important as long as the candidate had one. If, however, the role was in finance or law, for example, the candidate had to have…