Haven’t we all gone through tough examinations or assessments to prove our value as students? Shouldn’t the same be true for new recruits and existing employees? Absolutely! This is why more organizations are conducting skills assessment tests to evaluate their employees and applying candidates. Long gone are the days when an employee’s experience and educational […]
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As organizations become more digital, there’s a growing need to hire new skills or to “upskill” existing skills. In a rapidly changing workforce, organizations can no longer simply hire based on ‘traditional” job roles and profiles. Instead, they need a skills-based approach to hiring and retaining their talent. However, this is easier said than done!
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It’s an exciting time to be a student, isn’t it? Plenty of career options and skill development opportunities. This is probably the best time for a career-focused student to explore new career paths. Having said that, it’s not easy for students to decide on the right career opportunity! There are plenty of career exploration strategies
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As we enter 2024, there’s growing talk of the “4-day work week” across many countries. Whether that “dream” is realized or not, today’s reality is that human workers are spending more time with their “work family” than at home with their “real” family. How much of their work time is spent on productive work? Here
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In the world of work, organizations are continually challenged to amp up their performance. Achieving this requires a systematic and strategic approach to managing and optimizing the performance of employees and teams. This is where a well-crafted Performance Management System (PMS) emerges as a linchpin, providing a structured framework to align organizational objectives with individual
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Do your employees enthusiastically look forward to coming to work every day? If yes, then great job! You have done an exceptional job of keeping them engaged and committed to your company. If not, then you are not alone. According to the 2023 Gallup “Global Workplace” report, only 23% of employees are currently engaged at
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How long do your employees remain in your organization? Lately, there has been a buzz around the wave of the “great resignation” across the globe. Many social media users and industry leaders are also using terms like “quiet quitting” to denote this shift in workplace culture as we know it. Evidently, high employee turnover can
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Ever wondered what keeps an organization together? It’s the organizational culture or the work culture. In recent years, there’s been plenty of talk about the importance of organizational culture. Here are some 2023 statistics that will surprise you: In this blog, we shall look at some of the best examples of organizational culture in the
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Traditional job titles or designations come in all shapes and sizes. However, the question is, are they all relevant to the modern workforce? The harsh truth is, NO! Not all job roles and designations bear the same weight they used to a decade ago. This is why, in a competitive job market, organizations are finding
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Along with the growing talent shortage, organizations are also grappling with the problem of the “skills gap” – or the mismatch between the individual’s skills and the skills required to perform a job efficiently. According to Gartner, 58% of the global workforce needs new skills to complete their work. Truly, that percentage is astounding! A
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Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a significant shift in the job market, with many industries experiencing a rapid transformation and the emergence of new skill requirements. As we move forward, it is crucial to understand these evolving demands to prepare for future employment opportunities. The pandemic has accelerated technology adoption across various sectors,
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Are you finding it harder to hire the right people for your growing organization? Don’t worry, you are not the only one! Over 60% of business leaders in the U.S. face the same challenge. Worldwide, recruitment firms cite “tight talent pools” as their main hiring challenge (at 56%). Now the question is, why is this
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The recruitment industry invests a lot of time and effort into the parsing and pulling of data from resumes and job descriptions. Once it has been extracted, resume data is matched with job descriptions to filter candidates. The whole process is quite tedious and gives rise to an urgent need for the standardization of data
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The form and structures of skills data, has huge implications in the recruitment function. Resumes and Job Descriptions are two key documents that are used in recruitment technology. Both are usually very text heavy. This text, though easy enough to process, poses inherent challenges when it comes matching people to jobs. This might also impact
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We have created an entirely new language for skills and then gone on to build multiple ways to align it effectively to existing HR processes. Many of you might be curious about how this really functions. In this article we will give you a quick lowdown on how the IYS Skills Ontology can be used
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Skills data is typically over-complicated – in the form of resumes and job descriptions – or oversimplified – in the form of skills selection interfaces that are too basic. Resumes and job descriptions are text based and carry too much information for today’s world of skimming through content. At the other end of the spectrum,
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Standards exist across almost every field – communication protocols, engineering, healthcare…the list goes on. Standards help in moving information from one pool of information to another and in creating a platform for rich analytics. In the case of healthcare, for instance, standardization supports a common understanding between doctors, insurers and others. Standardization of Data on
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Maps enable us to know where we are, places near and far, how to get there et al. They make the world exciting to experience. Being an HR professional, I wondered why not a map of skills that can similarly help everyone become aware of their skills, appreciate them and perhaps explore new ones? At
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Big Data, as I see it, is understanding one’s preferences in finer detail and then increasing the probability of the choices that fit our preferences to be presented to us. So, there are two things in play – First is profiling and the second is selection. Let me explain. I like reading books and a
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Hiring managers today complain about not able to find candidates with the right skills for the job, but are they looking for the right skills? A candidate who has good visualizing and UX skills and has worked on CSS3 may be rejected just because they “know” but have not worked on JQuery is ridiculous! It
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Abstractness of Talent in Skills Dimension Line functions and business leaders appreciate that ‘Talent’ is the key driver of the company or business. But ‘Talent’ visibility is fuzzy. There is a lack of clear information particularly if we focus on the “skills” dimension of Talent i.e. not just of age, demography, education, experience or qualification
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Contemporary organizations are far more complex than what they used to be. Businesses require expertise in more than one area and organizations employ people with several different skill profiles. Gone are the days when there was a large number of employees with similar skill sets. There may exist many skills profiles in the company which
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Knowing what skills employees possess and the proficiency levels in them, how they are deployed, what skills are available and what skills are deficient and such are valuable information that immensely impact businesses. This is called a ‘Skills Inventory’. The Skills Inventory is even more an imperative in the knowledge economy. Industries known for their
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The proficiency levels within the role also play an important part in defining our capabilities. For example: Two salespersons, programmers or writers may have different levels of proficiencies, even though they might do the same job and have the same skills. To understand the concept, let us consider the simple example of proficiency with regard
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An organization’s strength lies in the people that work there and the skills they hold. Taking a skills-centered approach when managing your workforce will mean you can deploy the right personnel for a specific task, direct targeted training where it’s needed, and bring in the “right” people into your organization so that teams – and
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