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Fit to Role: Aligning Skills and Job Requirements for Optimal Performance

Effective Managers

Employees are less likely to leave a position where they feel competent and valued, leading to lower recruitment and training costs. Ongoing Training and Development : Implement continuous training and development programs to help employees enhance their skills and adapt to evolving job requirements.

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Uber Is Finally Realizing HR Isn’t Just for Recruiting

Harvard Business

It suggests that Kalanick initially saw the HR function as a means of recruiting staff to support fast growth. All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development.

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How HR Can Become Agile (and Why It Needs To)

Harvard Business

If software has eaten the world, then agile has eaten the software world. And there is no shortage of information and advice on how agile should be implemented in your tech organization. For example, a Google search for “agile software development” returns over 14 million results. Related Video.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

In Part 1 , I wrote about how “Agile” is not a silver bullet and is not right for every team and every product. This post is about how management fits into agile approaches. Too often, managers think “agile” is for others, specifically teams of people. Team-based “agile” is not enough.

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How My Company Created an Apprenticeship Program to Help Diversify Tech

Harvard Business

Even though we were following the typical playbook — posting open positions on job boards that specialize in attracting candidates from underrepresented groups, sponsoring events, giving scholarships, and training our employees on inclusion and hidden bias — we weren’t seeing progress. Native American, 18.1%

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What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent

Harvard Business

When Army 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Riley was a senior at the University of Virginia, he ranked 10th out of 5,579 in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) National Order of Merit List. military over the last 250 years can, at times, make recruitment and retention difficult. We faced geographic and awareness challenges.

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Creating Agile HR, Part 8: Summary

Johanna Rothman

Education and training. Recruitment. Of these, it makes sense to change the compensation and rewards approach, recruitment and hiring if the organization wants to create an agile culture. It’s possible to create a more agile approach to education and training. Agile HR is not about standups or boards.

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