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.


BP – What will it be: Face up and Fix it or Cut and Run?

Posted on by Dwayne Nesmith

With an oil slick that is 80 miles across and 42 miles north to south just a few dozen miles from the Louisiana Coast, BP certainly has created a mess.  Now the only question more important than how to stop the bloody thing from leaking is what will BP do about it. 

They can take the Exxon route after Valdez which was too slow, too little and too eager to head to a courtroom.  Or BP can take the necessary precautions sooner rather than later, avoid what is possible, clean quickly what was not and stay around to finish the full job.   Well BP, what’s it gonna be?