oh, that s so great. thank you, guys. she s watching over me. all right. thank you, guys. they smell great. thank you. nice to meet you. such a pleasure. so great to meet you. thank you so much. success in business comes with having the wisdom to hire the person who is the right fit for the job. so what should hiring managers be focusing on during interviews? david lewis is the founder, president, and ceo of operations inc., a resourcing and consulting firm. he s here to talk about hiring for core skills versus specific experiences. good to see you. hiring is so hard. it s a crazy process. think about selecting a spouse like this. y you get three hours with somebody and decide if you going to marry them. we re doing that in employment. we re talking to people for about three hours and deciding if they can be the part of our success or our failure. so you have to be really strategic about what you do these days in order to pick the right people. should i be looking at th
so you can get business done. american express open. stkpwhrao how do we keep our millennial staff engaged for a long period of time. i really desire a culture where our millennials want to be like our parents and stay a long time in our company. if you think people are going to work for you for tenor 20 years, you have the whole workforce completely wrong. people will work for a company 4.2 years before moving on. young people are likely to change jobs when they re younger. do i work at a large company, small company. what department would i work best in and who do i want to work with. it is about creating flexible programs. it s about paying people fairly.
fit in and could they learn? so in 2010, you re looking at experience. five years of this, two years of that, a particular type of degree. in 2017 and beyond, until this market cools down, you can no longer find candidates as easily that way. so you got to start looking at core skills and looking at behaviors. focus less so on where they worked and how long they did it for. focus more on what they re capable of doing and see if that s going to be a fit for this particular role. and maybe the point is so let s just say i have a key marketing role i need to fill, and i can t find the perfect person with experience. maybe i could find someone who can learn and get an adviser, which might be easier to find who can help them. the question becomes what s more trainable. their experience within an industry or the core skills that make them successful. and the answer is the experience in the industry is much easier to train. so if you find someone who s a good communicator, who works w
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