“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
As technology makes it easier to work from anywhere, companies can hire employees based on their skills without concern for where they are. But for employment law, geography matters.
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.
“Four-year college degrees have long been a proxy for base level of skills—that a person can write, work with numbers, and think through difficult questions. Except that’s probably not true any more.” – China Gorman
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.
“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.
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