Articles for category: Skills Hiring

July 22, 2026

Cheryl Nunn, MBAe™

2026 MBA Skills In High Demand

Top 2026 MBA Skills Recruiters Search for and How to Make Them Find You

Remodel Your LinkedIn Profile: Think of your LinkedIn profile as a building. It has a foundation in your education and experience. It has a facade in your headline and photo. And it has interior rooms in your About section, Skills list, and Featured content. Too many MBA professionals leave their building half-constructed and then wonder why recruiters walk right past it. That changes now. LinkedIn’s own data, two major global employer surveys, and a wave of HR intelligence research published in 2025 and 2026 tell us precisely which skills hiring managers and recruiters are typing into their search bars when

July 21, 2026

Cheryl Nunn, MBAe™

Skills Phishing

Skill Phishing Is Costing Employers Millions. Verified Credentials Are the Cure

There is a new term making its way through the HR community, and if you work in talent acquisition, lead a team, or are currently in the job market, you need to understand it. Skill phishing. The Society for Human Resource Management recently spotlighted it. Trent Cotton raised it on The Human Capitalist Podcast with guest Charlotte Melkert, CEO of game-based hiring platform Equalture. The concept is not complicated, but its consequences are enormous. Skill phishing is the act of presenting polished skills, credentials, or capabilities during a hiring process that do not translate into real-world job execution.¹ In plain

July 20, 2026

Cheryl Nunn, MBAe™

Your Expertise Is Invisible to AI.

The most important career shift of this decade is not about learning new skills. It is about whether the systems now making the first decisions about your career can find you at all. Most cannot. That is not a metaphor. It is a technical fact, and it is reshaping who gets hired, who gets appointed, and who gets cited as an expert, faster than most professionals realize. Quick Summary The Email That Arrived in My Inbox This Week A strategist named Adam Houlahan sent me a note that stopped me cold. He wrote: “4.5 weeks. That’s the approximate half-life of