Human capability / Work / Industrial capacity
Human capability is the infrastructure behind everything we want to build.
The Hire Good follows where capability is growing, where it is being lost, and how AI, training, and industrial change are reshaping the people required to build.
What is changing now
Latest signals.
Evidence about the workforce required for aerospace, defense, advanced manufacturing, energy, and the physical economy.
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA expands investment in aviation’s future workforce
Read the sourceDepartment of Defense · L.S. Black Constructors
$22.1M award builds the B-21 maintenance footprint
Read the sourceU.S. Government Accountability Office
Electric aircraft are creating new capability-assessment needs
Read the sourceDepartment of Defense · Viasat + Intelsat
$437.7M award advances protected tactical satellites
Read the sourcePublic research
Three ways to follow the work.
Signals
The evidence, voices, investments, and production changes worth following.
Read Signals 02Demand
Where capital, contracts, facilities, and hiring point to the capabilities companies will need.
Explore demand 03Training Map
Where critical capability is being built and where training capacity is constrained.
Explore the mapAbout Darla Horn
A recruiter’s eye.An operator’s perspective.
Darla Horn is a People and talent executive who has built functions, leadership teams, and organizations from the ground up. Across startups, public companies, and aerospace, she has worked inside the moments when a company has to translate ambition into leadership, capability, and a team that can deliver.
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I also advise companies doing consequential work.
The Hire Good supports leaders working through People strategy, workforce planning and development, organizational design, executive and technical search, and moments of transition.
The research sharpens the consulting. The consulting keeps the research grounded in what companies are actually trying to build.
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