In this week’s feature What Law Applies to Your Virtual Workforce?, Heather Bussing explores the tricky intersection of local employment law and virtual workers who are located in other states. We welcome Jeff Dickey-Chasins aka “The Job Board Doctor”, to the HRExaminer.com Editorial Advisory Board. Be sure to read Jeff’s post Job Board Evolution. John Sumser has three stories – Skills Gap 4: Undercapitalization, Recent Demos, and Five Links: The Unevenly Distributed Future. Enjoy!
Sometimes, it feels like Demo Central around here. We generally see a couple of software demos a day. Here’s the best of them from the past couple of weeks.
The demands of cashflow management and finance terms don’t really allow for workers to have much onboarding time. This has increased employers’ desire to have plug and play workers. Some of the skills shortage is simply a question of the company’s debt load. They can’t afford to hire someone who is ‘close enough’.
“The mere mention of ‘job boards’ is enough to send many HR and recruiting professionals into a frenzy of arguments, prophecies, and condemnation.” – Jeff Dickey-Chasins
Skills Gap: We started The Skills Gap series with last week’s The Hiring Paradox. This week’s issue is dedicated to the topic. We begin with a must-read post from China Gorman called Skills Shortage or Inflated Job Requirements?. We continue with John Sumser’s posts Skills Gap 2: Outsourcing, and Skills Gap 3: The Pace of Change. We finish the series with Five Links: Skills Shortage – Skills Gap. While unrelated to the Skills Gap series you’ll want to read Heather Bussing’s wonderful article on dealing with fear and anxiety – Good at Terrified.
Five Links: Skills Shortage / Skills Gap If you’re following the emerging skills gap story, it has a lot of facets. Here are several. The terrain includes a consultant, an online community, college, a study and an analysis. Hays Global Skills Index 2012 The index ranks what used to be called first world countries by […]
“I’ve learned to just invite fear along for the ride. I give it a little attention, tell it some jokes, and ask it, very nicely, to stay in the backseat. When the fear is insistent, I listen to what it’s trying to tell me.” – Heather Bussing
HRExaminer v3.47 November 30, 2012
We’re starting a series this week on the Skills Gap with John Sumser’s article, The Hiring Paradox. Bob Corlett joins us to discuss The Amazonification of Recruiting and Heather Bussing has the Employer’s Holiday Guide. Heather also has Trash your Policy Manual — content from her speech at HR Reinvention in Omaha. We round up all the little doggies with Employment Branding and then Five Links: Roundup which features articles about managerial insight.
This week’s five are a smattering of managerial insight, a whiff of demographics, a bit of freeware, a look at language, a tutorial and a bonus list of rules.
Recruiting rule number 1 is that you can always solve your skills shortages with enough money. At that point, it becomes someone else’s problem. Growth in that arena is only possible with an investment of some sort. The question is “Who makes it?”
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