As labor challenges continue throughout the year, more employers are exploring skills-based hiring to help them compete for job candidates and expand talent pools. While specific qualifications may be valuable for some roles (e.g., knowledge roles requiring degrees and licensure) or industries (e.g., health care and education), HR professionals and senior leaders may benefit from considering candidates based on desired skills rather than experience or education.

Many employers experience a growing need to upskill or reskill their workers to address talent shortages. As such, a skills gap analysis can be an important tool to drive and shape workforce planning. Such an analysis sheds light on talent opportunities and allows employers to examine and optimize business priorities.

HR professionals have likely already heard about “quiet quitting,” where employees put no more effort into their jobs than necessary, and “quiet firing,” where employers or managers slowly pull back employee duties instead of outright firing them. Now, there’s another phrase gaining traction in workplaces: “quiet hiring.”

Just as HR professionals quickly adapted to changes at the height of the pandemic, they must now adapt and respond to today’s evolving expectations of organizations and employees alike. As such, savvy HR leaders and professionals will approach 2023 with human-centric strategies that holistically support and benefit workers.