Goodbye degree requirements? Biden administration pushes skills-based hiring for tech talent

The Office of Personnel Management announced on Monday that it will be reworking the policies around the 2210 job series — which covers most government tech employees — to be more skills-based.

The Biden administration is rewiring the resume requirements undergirding most of the government's IT workforce to support workers who pick up tech skills on the job, it announced Monday.

“We know that getting the best talent requires workers to be hired based on the skills they possess and their ability to learn, not just their degrees they hold,” said National Cyber Director Harry Coker, Jr. during a Monday event hosted by his office.

Skills-based hiring focuses on testing candidates for capabilities instead of relying educational credentials to qualify job-seekers. 

The Office of Personnel Management will be converting the government’s 2210 job series, which is composed of nearly 100,000 federal IT and cyber workers, to skills-based hiring. 

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