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Podcast: Good Morning, HR
Episode: Hiring for Skills with Mark Smith
Description: In episode 159, Coffey talks with Mark Smith about employers’ shift towards skills-first hiring. They discuss the evolution of applicant evaluation to skills-first hiring; the diminishing relevance of college degrees in hiring; the importance of soft skills in employee retention; the process of developing a skills-based hiring approach; the use of assessments and structured interviews in hiring; preventing cheating in skills assessments; and the ethical considerations of candidate projects or role-play assessments.Mark Smith best-selling book “A Better Choice: The Manager’s Guide to Skills-First Hiring.” https://a.co/d/hTK228B Good Morning, HR is brought to...