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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.


Corporations making “Cliff” decisions

Posted on by Dwayne Nesmith

Corporations are being impacted by the delay in getting a debt deal completed.  The WSJ reported today that the uncertainty is driving some corporation to delay investments.  “We’ve pulled back on our capital planning for 2013,” Ellen Kullman, chairman and CEO of chemical maker DuPont , said in comments to the conference in New York on Tuesday. “We can’t in good conscience put that money into the ground and create new plant sites or make improvements to our existing plants if we don’t think the return is going to be there soon enough, so we’re taking a wait and see attitude,” she added.

CNN Money is reporting that other companies are speeding up their payout of dividends, as some speculate dividend receipts will be taxed in 2013.  “Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500) became one of the largest companies to take action recently. The world’s top retailer said last week that it planned to pay its fourth-quarter dividend in late 2012, rather than early 2013.”