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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.


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Corporate Volunteers using Professional Skills

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”It’s a win-win-win situation,” says Claire Johnson, a PhD student at the University of Adelaide who is researching corporate volunteering. She believes companies are turning away from sponsorship in favour of corporate volunteering. ”I think people can be cynical about sponsorship. The idea that the company can give money to a group and get advertising…

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Cloud Sprawl. How to deal with it.

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Mike Vizard, talks with Kent Christensen of Datalink about Cloud Sprawl and what companies can do about it.    Christensen’s recommendation is to start with a private cloud. One of the issues that many IT organizations are soon going to find themselves dealing with is “cloud sprawl.” Because it’s relatively easy to set up an account…

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Video games to spread awareness on deadly diseases

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According to Calcutta News.Net, the ‘5th International Conference on Entertainment Education (EE5)’ heard that video games and personalized advice through phone calls and messages are some of the unique measures proposed to spread awareness on tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.  The four-day conference aimed to create a fusion of education and entertainment to highlight life-threatening diseases and social…

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Buffett Goes in “Big” on Blue

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Stating that IBM is now a services company, Warren Buffet has made his first investment in a computer manufacturer or what many may still call a technology company.  Richard Waters of FT believe it is brand and a bet on the changing landscape of where computing power is located. Warren Buffett has famously steered clear…

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