In today’s highly competitive talent market, hiring skilled professionals aligned to your culture and business needs is an urgent challenge to address. Studies have shown that while hiring managers seek candidates with technical and relevant job experience, 92% of them believe that soft skills are more valuable. As the marketplace becomes more globally interconnected overriding geographical boundaries, communication skills become a critical asset in new hires. 

The question which arises then is, how do we ensure that we are recruiting candidates fluent in global business communications? With 97% of employees acknowledging that communication impacts task efficacy on a day to day basis, hiring those with this skill set inevitably impacts productivity and the company’s larger business impact. 

To enable organisations to hire to achieve business excellence, People Matters and Mercer | Mettl bring to you this webcast that empowers organisations to find high impact talent. Some of the key points that will be covered include:

•  The urgency of communication skills in the current business landscape

•  Strategies to hire talent with a high degree of language proficiency
•  Leveraging tools that enable holistic communication assessments
•  How proficiency in communications delivers growth and drives business impact