A firm adopts a skills-based approach to hiring. What does it now weigh less heavily?

1. Firms increasingly hire for technical knowledge and skills fit to the job as well as for cultural fit. 2. A skills-based approach asks what the applicant can actually do. 3. It deliberately puts less weight on education level and on the number of academic degrees held. 4. The reason is that a degree records where a person studied rather than what they can now perform. 5. Demonstrated technical knowledge is exactly what such an approach weighs more, so option A moves in the wrong direction. 6. Curiosity, leadership, and concrete results are all evidence of capability, so employers using this approach look for more of them, not less. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Business (CC BY 4.0), Ch 8 "Managing Human Resources and Labor Relations", section Organizational Culture and Hiring for Fit_