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Americans looking to land a first job or break into a dream career face their best odds of success in years.

Employers say they are abandoning preferences for college degrees and specific skill sets to speed-up hiring and broaden the pool of job candidates. Many companies added requirements to job postings after the recession, when millions were out of work and human-resource departments were stacked with resumes.

[...] "Candidates have so many options today," said Amy Glaser, senior vice president of Adecco Group, a staffing agency with around 10,000 company clients in search of employees. "If a company requires a degree, two rounds of interviews and a test for hard-skills, candidates can go down the street to another employer who will make them an offer that day."

Ms. Glaser estimates one in four of the agency's employer clients have made drastic changes to their recruiting process since the start of the year, such as skipping drug tests or criminal background checks, or removing preferences for a higher degree or high-school diploma.

Source: NOTE: Original submission referenced a paywalled page at The Wall Street Journal; this link appears to link to the same story, albeit with a stock chart for Intel Corp., included: http://www.4-traders.com/INTEL-CORPORATION-4829/news/Employers-Eager-to-Hire-Try-a-New-Policy-No-Experience-Necessary-27016610/

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