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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
As I mentioned in yesterdayโs post, I am currently fielding 2 questions from clients in Australia and the US about the skills shortage.
The firstโฆ
Now that the borders are open in Australia how long will it be before our skills shortage abates?โ
I answered this yesterday.
Iโll address the second question today.
The upcoming US recession will surely help the skills shortage (and put realign candidatesโ expectations), right?โ
To answer this we need to go back in time. Youโve undoubtedly heard the term โThe War for Talentโ but do you know where that came from? It was a report from McKinsey & Company about the upcoming global skills shortage โ written in 1997!!!
So the skills shortage is a challenge that weโve seen coming for a very very long time. Korn Ferry (by memory but it may have been Manpower, donโt quote me on the source but the numbers are accurate) wrote in 2014(ish) that by 2025 we were expecting a global skills shortage of up to 85 million people (and 20 million wonโt have the right skills to be employed as technology changes the shape of our roles.
So, if the US (and/or the rest of the world) goes into recession will the skills shortage go away? Maybe โ in certain industries โ for a period of time.
But this is part of a larger, global trend that is due to declining birth rates, the declining workforce participation rates (in some countries) and the reshaping of roles due to technology, as I mentioned above.
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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
Iโm 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 Iโve 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 โwrong wayโ (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, itโs 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/
๐ง๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐บ๐ ๐บ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐ โ ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ! Itโs the end of the Australian Financial year and I often get the question, โ๐๐ณ ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ?โ
To which I, of course, reply with a resounding yes!
Right, so Iโm back after almost 6 weeks. What did I miss? Other than a new PM in Australia, more gun violence in the USโฆand the fact that, according to the OECD, Australia has the second tightest skills market in the world.
You may have noticed that I havenโt been posting much over the last 5 โ 6 weeks because Iโve been in the US speaking at the annual Association for Talent Development (ATD) conference (funnily enough about employee retention).
I love, love, love Korn Ferryโs research, and the Future of Work Trends 2022: A New Era of Humanity report does not disappoint. One of the best quotes from page 6 is,
I loved this article about the things companies get wrong when writing job descriptions. I only disagree with their first point. A long job description/job ad isnโt necessarily a bad thing. Iโve helped clients write very lengthy but VERY compelling job descriptions that vividly describes the company culture and values, outlines what the prospective candidate can achieve in the role and what they need to bring to the table (innate abilities and strengths) to be successful.
Read More: https://www.igniteglobal.com/2022/05/7-things-companies-get-wrong-when-writing-job-descriptions/
If you speak at conferences or events as part of your role or business, chances are youโll encounter the tech crew โ those amazing magicians in black who make everything look and sound great, even under intense pressure.
When youโre under the spotlight, it can be easy to overlook the fact that creating an outstanding conference experience is a team effort. How can you make sure youโre a speaker the tech crew loves to...
