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How One Company Removed Degree Requirements for Management Roles
Episode 56 of The Diversity Career Podcast explores how one large retailer removed the four-year degree requirement for all management positions, opening career paths for underrepresented professionals. Lucas and Luna discuss the company's decision in 2024 to drop degree filters for over 50,000 roles, the skills-based assessment they replaced it with, and early data showing that 45% of new managers hired under the new system are people of color, compared to 28% before. The episode also covers how internal promotions increased by 22% within a year and how the company built an…
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