Widening Skills Gaps: Reflections on a Growing Trend
In the years since the start of the pandemic and in the wake of The Great Resignation, organizations risk facing unexpected skills gaps within their workforce. A variety of factors can impact the size and scope of an organization’s skills gaps, but one thing is...
Hiring Successfully for Dummies – Part 4: Scaling Performance
In an un-settled environment, it is tempting to rush to fill open positions and bring relief to often overworked existing employees. But the need to hire well-qualified people ready to hit the ground running must be balanced by the fact that this decision must serve...
Hiring Successfully for Dummies – Part 3: Reducing Bias in the Hiring Decision
Successful organizations strive to build equitable workplaces by identifying and reducing bias in their practices. Yet, according to a survey conducted by PXT Select, nine out of ten businesses surveyed identified hiring and selection as the number-one organizational...
Hiring Successfully for Dummies – Part 2: Tapping into the Value of Data
Organizations with the greatest hiring success use a consistent, data driven approach However, two thirds of hiring managers in a recent Wiley survey, said they tended to rely on instinct vs data when making a hiring decision. Instinct certainly is important and plays...
Hiring Successfully for Dummies – Part 1: Avoiding Bad Hiring Decisions
Say goodbye to bad hires by adding “job fit” measures to your selection process Hiring is difficult and the sad truth is that companies make the wrong hiring decisions more often than anyone cares to admit. We know the costs of a bad hire are significant, with the...
Overcoming Talent Disruptions Through Job Fit
In a competitive, ever-changing climate for limited talent resources, organizations can’t afford to make hiring mistakes Organizations everywhere are experiencing a profound disruption in the ways individuals interact and work. Many will find it tricky to understand...