PORTFOLIO CREATIVE BLOG

Color Coding Employees and How it Makes Handing Out Assignments Easier

By Catherine Lang-Cline Most employers are very familiar with DISC, Myers-Briggs, and StrengthsFinder analysis testing. We at Portfolio Creative use the book “StrengthsFinder” by Tom Rath when we hire new associates. It has helped us understand people as soon as they step through our doors, as well as see where they are going to be effective on the team. We also use a much simpler analysis that anyone can do and it is a quick read of anyone on your team, not to mention, yourself. It is called the Color

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Survey Says: Soft Skills Matter to Employers

By Kristen Harris We’ve been hearing a lot about the “skills gap” lately, where employers have a tough time finding qualified candidates even as a sizeable number of unemployed people struggle to find jobs. Now the debate has moved on to look at “hard” and “soft” skills. Hard skills are the specific manual or cognitive skills you need to do the job. They’re a measurable ability to perform the task at hand in an excellent manner. This is what most of us learn in post-secondary education or a training program,

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