Job interviews are changing. Here are five strategies to ace the skills-based interview

HR departments increasingly recognize that these more formalized interactions are far more predictive of performance and retention than their traditional counterparts. 

The traditional job interview—a face-to-face meeting with a hiring manager and perhaps a few others from the organization who pepper you with mostly improvised questions about your past—is slowly becoming a relic of the past. These conventional interviews, often based on subjective assessments of personality and presentation, are gradually giving way to a new model that prioritizes skills over degrees and concrete accomplishments over charisma.