Why are employability skills important to employers?

Harvard Business School’s study found that 37% of employers rank experience as the most important qualification in an applicant, not educational attainment. When a job is hard to fill, employers are more likely to overlook the lack of a degree when candidates have sufficient experience in place of the “right” education. And in large organizations (those with more than 10,000 employees), experience is more important than a degree 44% of the time.