Skills, not schools. Performance, not pedigree. Results, not requirements. These expressions all speak to the goal behind skills-based hiring: when you need to hire someone, you care about what they can do — not where they’ve been. It’s about weighing a candidate’s competencies over their credentials. This way of hiring can be a win-win: it extends opportunities...
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The famed White House Easter egg roll, held annually on the South Lawn, was cancelled last year because of COVID-19. But the new White House team has apparently not given up on Easter eggs, though they’re thinking about them in a very different way. A digital “Easter egg” was embedded in the software code for the Biden administration’s freshly minted version of...
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If you want to get a more diverse field of applicants, you need to put some care and thought into creating more inclusive job postings. They are your company’s virtual front door, particularly at a time when your actual front door may be sealed shut. And done right, a job posting can be a welcoming invitation to “Come on in.” Most of the advice for writing...
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Your job posts and ads may be a candidate’s introduction to your company, so you want to be sure they both differentiate you and set...
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“We at Bud Light have created the perfect hard seltzer… But we know a hard seltzer is only as good as its memes and, unfortunately,...
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You may be familiar with the statistic that candidates spend an average of 14 seconds looking at a job description before deciding...