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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.


Author: Dwayne Nesmith

25 Ideas for Leading Change at Home and Work

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In calling Fast Company readers to lead change at work and at home, RealTime speakers shared their ideas about the state of business, the power of people, and the future of innovation. Here are 25 of the smartest insights that we took away from the event. 1. Audit Your Company Cultures 2. Informed People Don’t…

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Managing next-generation IT infrastructure

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The McKinsey Quarterly In recent years, companies have worked hard to reduce the cost of the IT infrastructure—the data centers, networks, databases, and software tools that support businesses. These efforts to consolidate, standardize, and streamline assets, technologies, and processes have delivered major savings. Yet even the most effective cost-cutting program eventually hits a wall: the…

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Top Internet Trends for 2004

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Rob Greenlee, Host WebTalk Radio, predicts: 1. The decline of the web browser usage on the desktop as a way to get to web content 2. The growth of Internet applications – the executable Internet 3. All things wireless 4. Digital media enters the living room 5. Professional journalistic weblogs are syndicated through RSS 6….

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25 Years of Technology

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SPECIAL REPORT InfoWorld’s anniversary: 25 years of technology A look back at technology developments in the last quarter century and predictions for the future 1979 – 1985: The Dawn of the PC Personal computers meet the enterprise 1986 – 1995: The Networked Enterprise LAN, Ethernet, Lotus Notes, Windows 95, and a connected workforce 1996 –…

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