{"id":104924,"date":"2026-01-22T08:39:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/degrees-are-the-past-skills-are-the-future-how-to-win-the-2026-skills-first-job-market\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T08:39:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:39:35","slug":"degrees-are-the-past-skills-are-the-future-how-to-win-the-2026-skills-first-job-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/22\/degrees-are-the-past-skills-are-the-future-how-to-win-the-2026-skills-first-job-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Degrees Are the Past, Skills Are the Future: How to Win the 2026 Skills-First Job Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneytalksnews.com\/workers\/images\/width=1920\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/09152452\/shutterstock_2045804225-scaled.jpg?s=85728d8a563c60ffee78e5138dcfd35401bb5298553009a3c3662ce9e816cf30\" alt=\"Excited senior man working on taxes before a laptop.\"><figcaption>Evgeny Atamanenko \/ Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. A bachelor\u2019s degree used to be the golden ticket \u2014 the mandatory gatekeeper that stood between qualified workers and high-paying jobs. If you didn\u2019t have the diploma, your resume often didn\u2019t make it past the initial\u2026<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneytalksnews.com\/degrees-are-the-past-skills-are-the-future-how-to-win-the-skills-first-job-market\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evgeny Atamanenko \/ Shutterstock.com Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-money"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}