HRExaminer v3.48 December 7, 2012

Skills Gap: We started The Skills Gap series with last week's The Hiring Paradox. This week's issue is dedicated to the topic. We begin with a must-read post from China Gorman called Skills Shortage or Inflated Job Requirements?. We continue with John Sumser's posts Skills Gap 2: Outsourcing, and Skills Gap 3: The Pace of Change. We finish the series with Five Links: Skills Shortage – Skills Gap. While unrelated to the Skills Gap series you'll want to read Heather Bussing's wonderful article on dealing with fear and anxiety - Good at Terrified.

Skills Shortage or Inflated Job Requirements? by China Gorman “Four–year college degrees have long been a proxy for base level of skills—that a person can write, work with numbers, and think through difficult questions. Except that’s probably not true any more.” – China Gorman Read Now »

Skills Gap 2: Outsourcing In a world dominated by gut hunches, perception is reality. The reason we want to dig a little deeper is that when you solve a problem of perception as if it were a problem of supply, the wrong decisions get made. Read Now »

Skills Gap 3: The Pace of Change As technology spirals beyond our control, it feels like somebody must have made a mistake. Some blame the school system, some blame the generation of video gamers. You don’t see many executives blaming themselves and trying to figure out what they did wrong. Read Now »

Five Links: Skills Shortage – Skills Gap If you’re following the emerging skills gap story, it has a lot of facets. Here are several. The terrain includes a consultant, an online community, college, a study and an analysis. Read Now »

Good at Terrified by Heather Bussing “I’ve learned to just invite fear along for the ride. I give it a little attention, tell it some jokes, and ask it, very nicely, to stay in the backseat. When the fear is insistent, I listen to what it’s trying to tell me. ” – Heather Bussing Read Now »