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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.


Mike Rowe and the Value of WORK

Posted on by Dwayne Nesmith

Mike Rowe, of Dirty Jobs, believes we have gotten away from celebrating work, from acknowledging the value of skilled, manual labor as he talks about what he’s seen “on the job” during the 190 plus episodes of Dirty Jobs.
Taking jabs at the touchy-feely posters on boardroom walls, Mike chuckles at the cliches he heard early in his career.   Ask the Nevada pig farmer who collects the casino buffet trash if he’s following his passion and he’ll laugh at you.  All the way to the bank, he’ll laugh at you. As will many other successful Dirty Jobs heros.  They identified a need, rolled up their sleeves, and got it done.  They see things differently.  Like the Alaskan boat captain who said, “My job as a crab boat captain is not to get you home alive, it’s to get you home rich.  Getting home alive, that’s on you.”  Check it out for yourself: