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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.


Is Founder Control in Public Companies a Good Thing?

Posted on by Dwayne Nesmith

Another high profile company going public has decided to maintain control while selling a majority of the economic stakes in the company to the public.   This time it is Al Gore as a founder of  Current Media.

I certainly agree, the company’s shareholders have a right to decide the control structure they want to have after a public offering.  At the end of the day, people can always choose not to be a party to it.  And the average investor (not the same as the average dollar invested) has little voice in the actions of a company.  But I still don’t like it.  I guess it comes down to creating value for all shareholders and when you remove options – and putting control in the hands of a few reduced options – you lower the value to the group as a whole.

In this case the interesting thing will be how Gore is viewed in this debate (not that I’m trying to pull Barak and Hillary into this).   In Al Gores Convenient IPO the comparision with Google focused on Gore’s holding public office and being a voice for many of the institutions who are currently fighting against these type of control structures.  I don’t think we should hold Gore or any other ex-public official to any higher standard than we hold each other.  And he should not try to tell us to do what he thinks is better for others unless he is willing to do that or more himself.