skilled workers

How many job applicants does it take to find one qualified candidate?

How many job applicants does it take to find one qualified candidate?  While the question sounds like the preamble to a funny punch line, the answer is no laughing matter…

Employers Need to Get a Grip on the Workplace of the Future

A funny thing has happened on the way to old age and retirement.  It just arrived a lot quicker for millions of 60 years and older workers than they ever…

What You Need to Know Before Hiring Top Performers

As a follow-up to my article Why We Need to Hire Fewer and Fewer People, employers must first understand what it takes for a candidate or employee to become…

Looming Doctor Shortage Just TIp of Iceberg?

Stories about the shortage of skilled workers are so frequent these days that many people just take the news with a grain of salt.  But an article like the one…

What’s Coming Next? 3 Lessons Learned in Great by Choice

Jim Collins, in his new book Great by Choice, tells us that “we cannot predict the future. But we can create it.”  (That’s actually a Peter Drucker quote, which…

Why Complexity Drives Managers Crazy

Business life has always featured the unpredictable, the surprising, and the unexpected. What’s changed is that the level of complexity that people have to cope with has simply become…

Small Businesses Struggle to Find Skilled Workers

The unemployment rate is nearly 10 percent. But small business owner Dave Hatter is having trouble finding skilled workers…

It’s the Height of Audacity to Claim a Skilled Worker “Shortage” When 20% Percent of American Skilled Craft Workers Are Unemployed

As the global economy recovers, it is necessary to implement strategic migration policies in order to create a mobile workforce and plug the gap of skilled workers…

Critical Job Skills You’ll Need in the Future

The definition of work and, consequently, the definition of a job is changing. The evolution from agrarian and industrial age jobs to service and knowledge work is nearing its completion…

Jobs Are Scarce, But Candidates’ Expectations Aren’t

There’s an assumption pervading board rooms and inner circles of management that high unemployment is tempering the demands of candidates. I’ve got a simple response: Stop drinking the…