Everyone is advertising for people skills, yet the way candidates are screened still favors tidy resumes over the humans who ...

Soft skills training is the No. 1 priority for more than a quarter of HR and L&D professionals in a Talespin study released in March. Nearly half of the 70 respondents ranked it among their top three ...

ESG, for better or worse, has been top of mind for employers, especially in the wake of various social upheavals in 2020 — but employers may not have the talent to reach lofty sustainability goals, ...

Skills for human resources careers don't just include hard skills such as interviewing, hiring, and onboarding. Soft skills involving empathy and understanding are important too. As an HR professional ...

It’s one of the biggest buzzwords in HR right now: Skills-based hiring. For years, HR leaders championed the idea of evaluating candidates based on skills rather than degrees listed on résumés. But ...

Developing strong mentors and managers has always been an impactful cascade through various levels of an organization, but it may now be more important than ever. Effective leadership is key to ...

The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday announced that it is updating the list of skills required to be a human resources specialist at federal agencies, a move it says will make progress ...

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ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The skills gap is real and getting worse, with 83 percent of HR professionals saying they had difficulty recruiting suitable candidates in the past 12 months, ...

Training employees to resist the lure of phishing, scams, and deepfakes is central to a good cybersecurity posture, but to be effective it needs to be handled with plenty of input and guidance from ...