Many companies seem to have fallen victim to the ominous skills gap – but only because they’ve found it’s easier to place blame somewhere than to look at what they can do to fix it. If you’re struggling to find qualified candidates, you might need to take a deeper look at your organization and ask some pointed questions. Are there areas of the recruiting process that are lending to skill gaps? Have you done a formal assessment to uncover skill gaps? Are you using modern learning methods to bridge gaps by upskilling your current workforce? Join Katie Miller from BizLibrary as we re-evaluate potential root causes of your organization’s skill gaps and discuss what can be done to fill them efficiently. In this webinar, you’ll learn: The factors that could be contributing to your skill gaps, and how to find and address the root causes How to re-evaluate what a “qualified candidate” is in order to create more relevant and realistic talent expectations How to start uncovering your organization’s skill gaps with a formal assessment How to use modern training methods to bridge skill gaps by upskilling your workforce

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6. Presenting Today
Katie Miller
Marketing Events Strategist
BizLibrary

7. www.bizlibrary.com/demo

9. Poll Question
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What factors are contributing to your skill gaps?
A. Employee attitudes
B. Lack of qualified applicants
C. Technology
D. Other (type in group chat)

10. In this webinar, you’ll learn
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- The factors that could be contributing to your skill gaps, and
how to find and address the root causes
- How to re-evaluate what a “qualified candidate” is in order to
create more relevant and realistic talent expectations
- How to start uncovering your organization’s skill gaps with a
formal assessment
- How to use modern training methods to bridge skill gaps by
upskilling your workforce

11. So, are you ready to find and close
your organization's skill gaps?

12. Main Reasons
“Nearly a third of employers say the
main reason they can't fill roles is a
lack of applicants.”
Lack of Applicant Job Description
Re-evaluate
1. The job description itself
2. Get current employees
advice and do research

13. What are some other factors that could be
contributing to your skill gaps?
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14. Are your education requirements more
stringent than they need to be?
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REQUIRE BACHELORS DEGREE
67%
WORKERS WHO HELD A
BACHELOR’S DEGREE
16%

15. Other factors that could be contributing to your
skill gaps
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POORLY STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS ARE WAGES TOO LOW?

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Other factors that could be contributing to your
skill gaps
LOCATION RELUCTANT
RETIREES
PASS DRUG TESTS SKILLED
CANDIDTATES

17. Are your talent expectations realistic?

18. The reality that learning is for the life
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- Partnerships with vocational schools and colleges
- Build relationships with these schools and programs and
offer internships.

19. 80%Of many Fortune-500 companies interns are
hired on as entry-level employees.

20. Hire for attitude and ability to learn
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SKILLS & EDUCATION
TEMPERMENT GOALS ATTITUDE

21. “You don’t hire for skills,
you hire for attitude. You
can always teach skills.”
- Simon Sinek

22. Which skills are must-haves?
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Adjusting the requirements on your ATS
“67percent said they don’t feel like they have to settle for a
candidate without the perfect qualifications.”
2013 Career Advisory Board

23. Are your assessments appropriate?
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24. How can a formal assessment help?
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ORGANIZATIONS CONDUCT
NEED ASSESSMENTS
56% 68%
SAY THEY WERE HIGHLY OR
VERY HIGHLY EFFECTIVE

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How can a formal assessment help?
Poorly conducted needs analyses can lead to training solutions that train
THE WRONG
COMPETENCIES
THE WRONG
PEOPLE
THE WRONG
LEARNING METHODS
https://www.xperthr.com/how-to/how-to-conduct-a-training-needs-analysis/6716/

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The results of a training needs analysis provides the employer with answers to the following questions
• What is needed and why?
• Where is it needed?
• Who needs it?
• How will it be provided?
• How much will it cost? and
• What will be the business effect?
How can a formal assessment help?
https://www.xperthr.com/how-to/how-to-conduct-a-training-needs-analysis/6716/

27. Internal Evaluation
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• Decide whether you’ll evaluate on an individual or team level, or both.
• Make sure to get managers on board with this process
• Use a well-defined rating scale that gives consistency across skill levels
and the level of importance of each skill for the role.

28. A rating scale example to assess
the importance is one like the
following
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How Important Is This For Successful Job Performance?
1= Not at all 2= A little 3= Somewhat 4= Considerable 5= Extremely

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25% of a person’s long-term career success
was attributed to technical skills.

30. How does modern learning help fill gaps efficiently?
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SAY LIFELONG LEARNING
IS IMPORTANT
82% 40%
REPORT THEIR EMPLOYERS DON’T
PROVIDE UPSKILLING OPPORTUNITIES
Randstad Workmonitor survey
(Q3 2017)

31. “There are many things companies
can do to help their employees
upskill and prepare for jobs of the
future. It is in a company’s best
interest to help their people grow in
their profession or into leadership
roles…”
- Michelle Prince

32. Characteristics of modern learning
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INSTRUCTOR-LED
AND ONLINE
TRAINING
LARGE LEARNING
LIBRARY
ONLINE,
ACCESSIBLE
WHENEVER
VIDEO-BASED,
MICROLEARNING
REINFORCEMENT
TOOLS

33. How to become a learning organization

34. How to become a learning organization
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Learning Agility
&
Learning Adaptability

35. Learning Agility & Learning Adaptability
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“[When] it comes to learning, the organization’s
role is to create the environment and systems to
allow employees to constantly learn and relearn.”
– Deloitte, 2017 Global Human Capital Trends

36. Benefits of a learning organization
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MORE LIKELY TO BE
FIRST TO MARKET
46%
MORE PRODUCTIVE
37%
MORE PREPARED FOR
FUTURE DEMANDS
58%

37. Key Takeaways
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• The factors that could be contributing to your skill gaps, and how to
find and address the root causes
• How to re-evaluate what a “qualified candidate” is, in order to create
more relevant and realistic talent expectations
• A great place to start uncovering your organization’s skill gaps is with
a formal assessment.
• Modern training methods can bridge the skill gaps, by upskilling your
workforce

38. Questions?

39. Identify Your Skill Gaps Video Course
From our producer partner, Vado,
this is part three of an eight video
lesson course, “Building your
Career.” This course will help you
perform a skill inventory to help you
proactively prepare for a career
move and increase your chance for
future success. By completing this
course, you will know how to
identify your current skills and
capabilities and determine what
gaps exist.
Building Your Career

40. Developing B-Players Into Top Performers:
This is part 4 of 6 in the Developing
B-Players Into Top Performers”
video series! This lesson will help
you look at your organization, your
leadership, your recruiting practices,
your tasks and your culture in order
to know where you are limiting
employees, and where you can
improve in order to motivate better
efforts.
Organizational
Examination Comes First

41. Learn How BizLibrary Can Help Your Organization!
Let us know through the poll or survey if you'd like a free customized
consultation with one of our product specialists.
www.bizlibrary.com

42. Thank you for attending!
Katie Miller
Marketing Events Strategist
BizLibrary

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