What’s the Half-Life of Your Hard Skills?

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Are they are trying to tell us something? “The half-life of hard skills has already decreased to 2.5 years.” Recruiting Future with Matt Alder, Ep 602: The Skills Mismatch In Hiring “Companies hire based on hard skills, but promote based on soft skills.” Recruiting Future with Matt Alder, Ep 602: The Skills Mismatch In Hiring “What’s Wrong with Bias? It … Read More

How a Pathfinder Mindset Helps with Remote Working

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Is the remote working genie out of the bottle? Permanently? It looks that way anecdotally as well as analytically (based on recent analysis by Bloomberry of job postings and hiring trends data from Revealera.com). While some workers miss the social environment of an office, a number of high-profile executives complain about remote worker productivity, and more companies are seeking to … Read More

Self-Awareness – Avoiding the Rocks of Misalignment

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In our last post we discussed growing your career through acceptance and how acceptance begins with self-awareness. Here we look at how you become self-aware and then use the knowledge of any blind spots you may have to avoid sailing your career onto the rocks of misalignment. If you’re that Big Co salesperson attracted by a wheelbarrow full of share … Read More