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Ignite Global is a leader in hiring, motivating and retaining top talent with management capability employee engagement, productivity and retention candidate.
future of work, The Great Resignation
9600 Great Hills Trail, Suite 150W Austin TX 78759
Ignite Global is a leader in hiring, motivating and retaining top talent with management capability employee engagement, productivity and retention candidate.
future of work, The Great Resignation
9600 Great Hills Trail, Suite 150W Austin TX 78759
Right, so I’m back after almost 6 weeks. What did I miss? Other than a new PM in Australia, more gun violence in the US…and the fact that, according to the OECD, Australia has the second tightest skills market in the world.
You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting much over the last 5 – 6 weeks because I’ve been in the US speaking at the annual Association for Talent Development (ATD) conference (funnily enough about employee retention).
Following that, I was on a dive holiday in Far North Queensland (stay tuned for Friday’s post, which will include sharks, turtles, barracuda and an assortment of more of my fishy friends.)
Now down to business. It won’t come as a shock to anyone in Australia reading this post that we are in a very skills-short market. According to both The Australian Financial Review (AFR)and SmartCompany, the OECD’s Economic Outlook for June pegged our skills shortage as second only to Canada’s in the developed world.
Specifically, last week the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed 420,000 vacant jobs. According to Smart Company, this translates into 2.8% of the labour market — or one in 35 jobs — being empty.
I’m currently fielding 2 questions from clients in Australia and the US about the skills shortage.
🙋♂️ “Now that the borders are open in Australia how long will it be before our skills shortage abates?” and
🙋♂️ “The upcoming US recession will surely help the skills shortage (and put realign candidates’ expectations), right?”
I will answer the first question today and the second tomorrow.
The border closures certainly have not helped the Australian skills shortage – nor have they been the main reason behind it. This is a structural skills shortage that we’ve seen coming for a while now, and it primarily has to do with the ageing population in Australia. The Commonwealth’s Intergenerational Report said that over the next 40 years Australia’s participation rate will go down by almost 25% due to our ageing population.
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In 2009 CEO and founder Kim Seeling Smith started Ignite Global after deciding that instead of being paid to put bums in seats (working as a recruiter for the 15 years prior to that) she wanted to help More
I’m curious, what has your experience been with implicit bias training?
Having spent 15 years working as a professional recruiter and 11 years teaching hiring managers how to hire more effectively and efficiently I’ve always felt that implicit bias training was a waste of time.
There is more and more research now backing up my gut feel. Here are two articles that unpack this pretty nicely.
Even worse, there is consistent evidence that bias training done the “wrong way” (think lukewarm diversity training) can actually have the opposite impact, inducing anger and frustration among white employees. What this all means is that, despite the widespread calls for implicit bias training, it will likely be ineffective at best; at worst, it’s a poor use of limited resources that could cause more damage and exacerbate the very issues it is trying to solve.
Read More: https://www.igniteglobal.com/2020/08/the-problem-with-implicit-bias-training/
My Facebook memories told me that 1 year ago today was my first appearance on Nine’s Today Show. Georgie and I had a spirited discussion about the older workforce. I was optimistic back then. I was FINALLY seeing some cracks in our decades old discrimination against older workers.
Not so much anymore. I’ve read recent stories that Ageism is still alive and well and increasing in our new COVID environment.
I’d love your thoughts. What do you see?
If you’re over 50, what do you find? What are your plans for the future? Remain in full time work, do contract work, side hustle? Start your own business?
We change the oil and rotate the tires on our car to keep it from breaking. We call this preventative maintenance. And research shows that regular, meaningful conversations do the same thing for our teams.
Yet so many managers complain they don’t have enough time to do this.
How much time would they save by avoiding problems by having proactive conversations to correct performance or behaviour and to find out what their team needs to be fully motivated, engaged and productive?
If you follow me on here you know that I’ve been through quite the journey with video, which is why I’m so excited about the next Professional Speakers Australia – PSA national event with video creation and marketing growth specialist Justin Brown.
Justin will share insider secrets on how to optimise your videos on YouTube so your content generates views for years after you upload it.
You’ll take away:
• How to structure your content to ‘bake-in’ key triggers that let YouTube know YOUR video is the one they should be promoting
• Keys to maximising watch time so your target audience sees more of you in action
• How to drive more engagement for even better results
Justin has a huge online community and this is your chance to get direct access to him.
Read More: https://www.igniteglobal.com/2022/06/psa-national-webinar-how-to-create-and-use-amazing-youtube-content/
A2B Australia Limited (CabCharge) is doing some really interesting work with self-managed teams. This has been a concept that many of my clients are struggling with as they redesign their org structures to increase collaboration, ownership and accountability. It’s a tough nut to crack.
𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗺𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 – 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲! It’s the end of the Australian Financial year and I often get the question, “𝗜𝗳 𝗜 𝗽𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿?”
To which I, of course, reply with a resounding yes!
