Skills based training focuses on how to do something specific and results in a learned skill that can be used immediately. Skills based hiring evaluates job candidates based on the skills that they bring rather than on their broad qualifications and work history. Many human resources and business experts consider a skills based approach to be the future of workforce management. Skills based hiring can expand and diversify the candidate pool, while skills based training for existing employees leverages scarce training resources to maximum benefit while enhancing employee growth, development and satisfaction.
Publication Date: January 2022
Topics Covered
- Definition and features of a skills-based approach to hiring and employee training
- Discussion of examples and real-world applications of a skills-based approach
- Advantages to employers of using this approach
- Evaluate potential situations to determine best opportunities for skills-based learning
Learning Objectives
- Describe the features of a skills based approach to hiring and employee training
- Identify examples and real world applications of a skills based approach
- Recognize how to explain the advantages to employers of using this approach
- Evaluate potential situations to determine best opportunities for skills based learning
- Identify characteristics of best employees
- Identify observable and measurable characteristics of a person that includes using knowledge and demonstrating skills, behaviors, and abilities that contribute to improved performance
- Recognize which type of knowledge is the primary focus of formal training
- Identify the most effective informal training mechanism
- Identify key components of talent management
Level
Basic
Instructional Method
Self-Study
NASBA Field of Study
Business Management & Organization (2 hours)
Program Prerequisites
None
Advance Preparation
None
Instructor
Jennifer Kowal
Jennifer Kowal, JD, has been a tax professor and the director of the graduate tax program at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles since 2003. Loyola’s graduate tax program offers an LL.M. in Taxation for attorneys and a Master in Tax Law for non-lawyers. Professor Kowal teaches courses in advanced income taxation, income tax timing issues, corporate taxation, and tax research, among others. Prior to teaching at Loyola, Professor Kowal taught in the International Tax Program at Harvard Law School.
She also practiced law with the firms of Irell & Manella in Los Angeles and Ropes & Gray in Boston, advising clients on the taxation of various business transactions, including cross-border, partnership and corporate structures. Professor Kowal holds a BS in Accounting with distinction from the University of Kansas, and a JD from UCLA School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif.