Workforce Readiness: 10 Top Skills Needed by Those Entering the Workforce

by Mitch Byers :: Saturday, February 16, 2008 :: posted in Selection & Hiring, Enhancing Your Career

The Workplace Visions publication discusses the mismatch of business needs and lack of available skills of young people currently entering the workforce. The recent Society of Human Resource Management publication highlights and how this mismatch will impact the challenges on managing the emerging workforce. Their research indicates “a staggering 94% of human resource professionals do not feel that their workforce is adequately prepared to meet the future goals of their organization.”  [More…]

3 Benefits of tracking contacts and calls

by Mitch Byers :: Sunday, January 13, 2008 :: posted in Interviewing to Win, Selection & Hiring, Enhancing Your Career

People in job transition often lament that looking for a job is a full-time job. Activities such as company research, network meetings, job fairs, connecting with recruiters, meeting company insiders for coffee, scrolling the job boards and preparing for the interview keeps you moving forward towards the end goal, landing a new position. During your job transition, you will have multiple conversations with dozens of people. Part of your “full-time job” should be to organize and track each of your contacts. Tracking your job transition contacts has several benefits: [More…]

Talk at Remington, A Dozen Strategies

by Mitch Byers :: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 :: posted in Selection & Hiring

The last dozen or so talks have focused on common job competencies and how to match your top competencies against the job description. While the information has been popular, tomorrow I am going to try something different. Recently, I have been working on a new ebook tentatively entitled, "A Dozen Strategies to Conquer Sticky Interview Questions." Tomorrow's session is an hour and my goal is to share at least 4 of the strategies with the students at Remington College. These are new graduates ready to conquer the world. I hope the information will be their swords and shields in their next job interview.