Merita Consulting

Skills First

In the ever-evolving landscape of business, one truth remains constant: a company is only as strong as its workforce. This is where skills-first hiring and promoting come to the forefront, offering a means to fill positions and a catalyst for driving your company’s growth. When you strategically hire for skills, you open doors to enhanced innovation, heightened productivity, and an overall surge in business success.

Skill Definitions

Determining the skills for each role is a critical first step in building an adaptive workforce. These definitions are the foundation for your job descriptions, job postings, career pathways, and workforce development programs, all of which provide the platform for implementing a skills-first hiring and promotion program.



Skills Assessments

Skills assessments are crucial to the skills-based hiring process. They are the litmus test that helps employers determine if a candidate’s abilities align with the role’s requirements. Yet evaluating technical skills alone is not enough.

You must embrace a holistic approach to skills assessments to find the perfect fit for your team.


You have Product-Market fit. Now What?

Scaling Smart

Companies with proven Product-Market fit have reached a very important milestone on the path to creating a sustainable business. This early, critical step is however, only one in a long list of capability building activities that are needed. Knowing where to focus scarce resources is one of many skills required for success.

Scaling Lean

Lean Thinking has come a long way since the Toyota factory floors of the mid-twentieth century. Most recently, Lean Thinking has transformed software development and product design and development. Don’t stop there. We help companies deploy Lean thinking throughout their growing business as they build and improve critical capabilities.

Scaling Right

Hard work meets opportunity has been used by many to define luck. When opportunity presents itself, you better know where to direct your hard work and other scarce resources. We help companies prioritize and execute on building the key capabilities necessary for success. Resulting in scaling the Right Things, at the Right Time and in the Right Way.