Brooke Weddle [Archive.org URL]

One of the things that I’ve seen in the skills-based hiring world is that people are hiring for the most critical skill of a given role or the hardest-to-find skill of a given role. They’re not hiring for all of the skills in a given role.

So, if you’re hiring for the critical skill or for the hardest-to-find skill, there’s a real role for L&D (learning and development) to create the boot camp to give you the other skills that you need. Because you may have most of what you need for the job, but there are things that you haven’t learned because you haven’t been there for five years. Being thoughtful about asking, “What are those boot camps?” to fill in the gaps: that’s a core part of skills-based hiring, as well.

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