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Cafe Classic: How to Keep Competencies from Expiring

Compensation Cafe

Many of our organizations use competencies to signal how work should be approached and to assess how well we are doing our jobs. Are your competencies up to the task. The competencies you use for employee development or assessment need updating in 2015. Most companies do not use competency-based pay.

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Facebook Unveils New Career-Development Portal

HRExecutive

Learn with Facebook is a career-development portal that offers introductory, free-of-charge courses in both hard and soft skills. Learn with Facebook is a direct move into LinkedIn’s territory, although Facebook representatives denied yesterday that it was seeking to compete directly with the business-focused social network.

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The Race to Remain Relevant in a Rapidly Changing Workplace

The Perfect Hire

Central to navigating all these factors is upskilling and career management. For employees and employers alike, upskilling and career development is the only way to stay ahead of the competition and remain relevant. Tailor Career Development Initiatives. Employers Feeling the Burn. Consider the benefits.

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3 HR Trends in 2014

Dave's Weekly Thought

I compete with my co-workers (and my wife) to top the leaderboard at the end of each day. Through game mechanics we can create a challenge, measure our progress daily and create metrics for elevated career development with each challenge we conquer. Here's to a powerful and productive 2015! There's an app for that too.

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People Analytics and HR-Tech Reading List

Littal Shemer

Features tied to SHRM competencies and data exercises give readers hands-on opportunities to practice the analytical and decision-making skills they need to excel in today’s job market. Competing on Analytics: Updated, with a New Introduction: The New Science of Winning Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris (2017). ” Work Rules!:

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Why Career Planning Matters

Everwise

In fact, a comprehensive, global survey of employees and HR leaders by Reed Consulting revealed that one of the top reasons for employee attrition is lack of opportunities for personal and career development. Lack of development is three times as influential as any other factor in an employee’s decision to leave. In Conclusion.

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SHRM Certification: Why Should #HR Pros Pay Attention

HR Bartender

Competency is defined as an ability or skill. Every profession has competencies. And we want competencies; they are the things that make us successful. You could say that jobs are made up of tasks (the actual things we do) and competencies (the skills we need to do them).