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Skills-based hiring just got its big break on the silver screen.
Last month, Netflix debuted Untapped: Closing America’s Opportunity Gap, a documentary about six young adults vying to land internships at large employers in NYC. The film, produced by Workday and LeBron James’s and Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Company, captured a snapshot of the work of Year Up United, an NYC-based nonprofit that helps more than 285 employers, including Amazon, JPMorgan, and Bank of America, recruit the young professionals who complete its year-long professional development program.
Untapped highlighted a revelation that some companies have had in shifting to skills-based hiring: College degrees are