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Precision Placement: Assessing Skills for Hiring Success

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Season 6 | Episode 3:

Precision Placement: Assessing Skills for Hiring Success

Jim Link, CHRO at SHRM

Great hiring starts with a solid resume, but high-performance hiring happens when you see the full picture. Professional credentials and career history remain the gold standard for establishing a candidate's baseline expertise. By pairing these traditional markers with modern skills assessments, HR leaders can gain even more confidence in their hiring decisions, better ensuring a successful hire.

Join us on March 17th at 2 PM ET for this essential episode of HR at the Table®, Precision Placement: Assessing Skills for Hiring Success, featuring Jim Link. As the Chief Human Resources Officer at SHRM, Jim brings a masterclass in leadership from his current role and previous executive experience at Porsche and Randstad. He will reveal how you can bolster your talent strategy by using skills-based insights to support traditional screening, enhance internal mobility, and drive long-term organizational success.

Learn How To:

  • Define Role Excellence: Combine traditional job requirements with specific competency maps to create a more comprehensive success profile.
  • Verify Professional Expertise: Use skills-based assessments to validate the technical proficiency reflected in a candidate’s career history.
  • Empower Internal Mobility: Match the experience of your current employees with new skill-growth opportunities to fill critical workforce gaps.
  • Increase Hiring Confidence: Use a dual-layered approach of resume screening and skill verification to ensure high-quality talent matches.

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Meet this episode's expert guest:

Jim Link

Chief Human Resources officer | SHRM

Jim Link is the CHRO for SHRM. With more than 340,000 members worldwide, SHRM is the largest HR professional association in the world and the leading voice for matters related to workers and the workplace.

Jim’s career includes roles of increasing responsibility across various industries and companies, including General Electric, the Pillsbury Company, Porsche Cars, and Randstad. In his most recent role as CHRO for Randstad North America, he led a global team of 150 HR professionals who were instrumental in transforming the company into an award-winning, inclusive, and sustainable global leader.

Jim has served as a volunteer leader in several organizations including the SHRM Foundation Board, the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank Human Capital Advisory Board, and the Human Resources Leadership Forum. Jim holds undergraduate and master’s degree from Murray State University. Born and raised on a working family farm in western Kentucky, he currently resides in Atlanta and Alexandria, VA.

Jim is an adjunct instructor in the Executive MBA program at the University of Poznan (Poland) School of Economics and Business.

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