Every recruiter and hiring manager knows it's best to seek candidates who align with the company's long-term objectives, but knowing and doing are two different things. Getting the right candidate the ...

Competency models are used to define which characteristics and performance requirements are needed to meet a certain expectation. A competency is essentially being adept and capable at a certain skill ...

Michelle Farber, RN, CIC, 2012 president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, recently discussed the changing role of infection preventionists and APIC’s ...

Competency-based education and assessment initiatives have been completed in a number of health care and health management professions during the past decade. In addition, several competency ...

You’re at a cocktail party, and someone asks what you do for a living. “I’m an automation professional,” you reply. “Oh, so you work with robots,” comes the response. Well, maybe you do work with ...

We often hear from the Operations team saying, “we don’t get the right people for the job”, complaining about the HR team. The HR team in turn says, “the operations’ team did not know what skills were ...

In a recent blog post, Bryan Warren, Manger of Healthcare Solutions at Select International, notes that when creating a competency model, it can be easy to get wrapped up in over-sized web of ...

This article describes how a nursing manager competency model was developed to improve the competency of existing ward sisters and charge nurses and educate potential leaders employed by the Acibadem ...

You'll often hear that a college student's most valuable resources are time and money. Well, one area institution is offering coursework that frees up a student's time to earn more money. Rasmussen ...