A new hiring strategy has emerged over the last year that has attracted the attention of many large companies like IBM, Dell, Bank of America, Walmart, Toshiba, Liberty Mutual and Bristol-Myers-Squibb. Skills-based hiring is a hot topic right now, because of the tight labor market. Businesses and nonprofits, including associations, are searching high and low to find alternative pools of qualified new hires outside the traditional four-year degree and “years of experience” that populate so many current job descriptions. Read on to learn how to better fill your candidate pipeline and avoid pitfalls with non-credentialed professions, by properly harnessing skills-based hiring.