Top 12 Future HR Competencies
How strong are you in these areas? By Linda Davidson

According to "The Official End-of-the-Millennium State-of-HR Survey," the following are competencies that HR professionals believe they'll need most in the next few years.

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Leadership

Recruiting/Staffing

Employment Law

Training and Development

Technology

Forecasting

Compensation Design

Benefits Design/Administration

Accounting/Finance

Record Keeping

Workforce, August 1999, Vol. 78, No. 2, p. 73.
Linda Davidson is former executive editor for Workforce.