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.

7 Things Highly Productive People Do LinkedIn

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Dwayne Nesmith

Ilya Pozin

Ilya Pozin recently sat down with Tony Wong, a project management blackbelt and came up with these 7 Things Highly Productive People Do.

Here are his tips for staying productive:

Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks.
Stop multi-tasking.
Be militant about eliminating distractions.
Schedule your email.
Use the phone.
Work on your own agenda.
Work in 60 to 90 minute intervals.