CLO reports that companies are doing less recruiting, preferring to develop high-potential employees with an understanding of the company culture as the pool of promotion-ready managers dwindles.
Almost eight out of 10 (77%) companies said they do not have enough successors to their current senior-level managers already working in their organizations – raising a pressing need [...]

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HR.com, the largest research and Web destination for HR Executives, recently published a research paper, “Job Profiles and Job Profiling: A Survey of Current Practices,” which finds a significant gap between espoused importance given to hiring the right person and current job profiling practices.
“Job profile refers to the definition of ‘’what the organization is looking [...]

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Understanding What Makes a Good Technician

“They really know what they are doing, technically, but they simply have no people skills.”

We would like to have the best of both worlds – good technical skills and good people skills – but a survey of managers quickly concludes it is all too rare we find such an individual. [...]

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