Going Skills-Based: Rethinking Hiring & Retention

At Korn Ferry, we’re constantly evaluating strategies to find and keep top talent in today’s competitive environment. As talent strategies evolve, a skills-based approach to finding and retaining highly sought-after individuals is sparking a lot of attention as companies are finding success by flipping their perspective.

We’ve put together a series of questions that organizations can ask when planning a skills-based approach–added to the traditional jobs-based way of thinking about talent. These are the same questions that Korn Ferry is helping clients across the world answer as they strive to move towards skills-based hiring and talent management. We’ll address how skills fit in with: 

• Workforce planning 
• Job and career architecture 
• Hiring 
• Learning & Development 
• Rewards 
• Internal mobility and promotions 
• Evaluating performance