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.

Is all data public?

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Dwayne Nesmith

Roger Grimes writes in InfoWorld that asking if a database is secure is the old way of thinking. The new way is to know if a data source is valuable it will be hacked or more likely already has been hacked.

If you ask security experts, every database worth stealing is already in the hands of someone who shouldn’t have it. This is not wild conjecture; this is the general, well-understood consensus of the world’s best computer security experts.

via It’s over: All private data is public | Security – InfoWorld.