During a recent presentation to a group of HR professional I shared Harriet Hankin’s statement from her book The New Workforce.    She wrote: “There will be a shortage of 40,000 principals by 2005.  Schools are hiring MBAs rather than MAs in Education.” 

My question to the group and my question to you is how might a principal with an MBA differ from a principal with an MA in Education?  How might this different perspective change how the work of education gets done?

Several members of the audience shared that they too are looking at nontraditional applicants for a variety of jobs.  The way work gets done is changing as a result of this.  On the other hand the changes in the way work gets done also allow us to look at nontraditional applicants as the skill sets we require are shifting. A classic chicken or the egg.  

Organizations are working hard to find people who have transferable experiences if not the experiences they traditionally seek.

Is your workplace being effected by nontraditional hires?  How and why?

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