The skills gap is well understood in all manufacturing sectors today and significant progress is being made to address it. But there is another skills shortage that may be even more problematic for the economy. It is the lack of career preparation and job search...
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What’s Keeping Nurse Leaders Up At Night? Four Staffing Challenges You Must Address
Here are four major challenges nurse leaders at leading healthcare organizations in the Northeast are worried about, and some ideas of how to address them. Are these issues on your agenda? How do you know they’re a problem? What are the business costs of not...
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How to Reduce the Cost of Skills Gaps in Complex IT Projects
Complaints about skill shortages in information technology are widespread today. But rarely is the cost of inadequate IT expertise as evident as in a recent Boston Globe story about a string of failed technology projects in the public sector. • In Massachusetts,...
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Which Skills Gap is Hurting You Most?
There’s plenty of talk in the business press about the skills gap and how it’s hurting business in the U.S. and globally. At the same time, there is a growing chorus that argues: the skills gap is bogus, a figment of the imagination of employers who are unwilling to...
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Stop Solving The Wrong Talent Management Problems
Almost every organization has talent management problems that directly increase their costs or reduce revenues, whether they know it or not. Use the diagnostic below to evaluate your progress in reducing these threats to performance. It will help you answer: Which of...
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Why Is It So Hard To Close the Skills Gap? 3 Mistakes to Avoid
Hiring managers are often “predictably irrational,” to borrow a term from one of my favorite books. That is, they do predictable things that don’t necessarily support their stated interests. If you’re having trouble finding the talent you need, here are three...
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