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’.
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 […]
As technology spirals beyond our control, it feels like somebody must have made a mistake. Some blame the school system, some blame the generation of video gamers. You don’t see many executives blaming themselves and trying to figure out what they did wrong.
In a world dominated by gut hunches, perception is reality. The reason we want to dig a little deeper is that when you solve a problem of perception as if it were a problem of supply, the wrong decisions get made.
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?”
Brands only matter to the people who care about them. Mention the brand name outside of the circle of people who have the relationship and you will receive shoulder shrugs. Mention it inside the circle and you can spark a conversation full of passion and opinion.
Gamification isn’t a term you want to use in polite society. What’s behind all the noise? John Sumser’s post outlines the central issues in this week’s feature Gamification III.
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