The 3 Rs

Nevada’s Job Program is causing talent to get hired faster, reducing the time on unemployment benefits. It could transform the nationwide employment program. Instead of searching out idlers not looking for work to take away benefits, Nevada sends them to a career center focusing on matching their experience with an opportunity or funding recertification or training. Can the talent shortage disrupt our industry’s impediments to hiring, The 3 Rs: Resident, Relationships and Real Estate specific experience? The founder of We Works told National Public Radio, when he wanted to move to New York City no one would hire him until he used a local address and said he lived in the City. He was then asked to start immediately, so his mother drove cross country with his personal possessions. While relocated talent may lack immediate market knowledge, if colleagues coach new hires it will require more precise and strategic thinking for both parties which can improve everyone’s success.