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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.


London 2012 chief says he supports Dow sponsorship

Posted on by Merita Marketing

London’s 2012 Olympic committee are taking heat on Dow’s sponsorship of the games. The committee says Dow came up with the best sustainable proposal to wrap the stadium “by quite a distance”.

At issue is the world’s worst industrial accident, the 1984 Union Carbide tragedy in India, which left an estimated 15,000 dead and injured 500,000.  Dow acquired Union Carbide 17 years later in 2001.

The Olympic committee is justified in selecting Dow as a sponsor as long as after 2001 Dow has done the right thing for the people of Bhopal.  If they have done right, then Dow should be proud of their actions and discuss them.  However, Dow spokespeople are talking about the facts of the accident, not the facts of the post-accident support for the community. They should only talk about the former after addressing the latter.  It matters not that the plant was not operated by Dow in 1984. Dow decided to own the issue when they acquired the assets and liabilities of Union Carbide in 2001. The committee and Dow will continue to hear protests about this until they discuss their responsibilities toward those harmed in Bhopal.

Victims of the accident, as well as former Indian Olympians and officials, have been pressuring Olympic organizers to drop Dow as a sponsor. Less than two weeks ago, protesters in Bhopal burned an effigy of the head of the Olympic organizing committee, Sebastian Coe.

On Sunday, Coe defended Dow’s involvement.