A recent study indicates that organizations are shifting their recruiting focus from the job toward a person’s skills. Companies are calling it skills-based modeling.
But is this really new? No.
Over the past two decades, Career Matrix Group has been advocating that organizations embrace skills-based recruiting in lieu of job and title recruiting.
The latter focuses on the job, title, and of course, degrees, and once hired, it confines people to one role and interest. The former, old-style recruitment technique focuses on valuing the person as a human being and harnessing their hard and soft skills, as well as their developmental potential over the long haul. Apprenticeships can play a big part in this redesign. Not does it benefit the organization, but it serves as a magnet in attracting good people and building the long-lost loyalty between employees and organizations.
The workforce is long overdue for such changes. In the old days, they hired for skills and the potential of the human being through apprenticeships and cross-functional journeying. Yet over the past several decades, organizations allowed degrees, job titles, and outdated philosophies to trump logic. In return, turnover increased, and human resources became inhuman resources. The trust between employer and employee withered away.
Redesigning the way work is done is critical to long-term business viability. It’s a win-win for both parties, and it’s about time.
To read more about this study and the white paper, click here.