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YOU’LL NEVER TRAIN IN VAIN

The way to win in business is to mold your workers to fit your culture.

For most employers, she’s the holy grail: the day-one-ready new hire. In she walks, preloaded with requisite skills. Just add caffeine and let her rip. But with unemployment at near-record lows, people like her are hard to find. Good. That scarcity is an opportunity.

In today’s tight labor market, the talent-is-hard-to-come-by lament is near universal—and also potentially misleading. The problem isn’t so much that employers can’t find workers for jobs that require skills, some experts say. It’s that employers want workers they don’t have to train. That attitude may deny businesses a powerful

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