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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
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
Did you know that 65% of candidates who turn down jobs or decline to go through the entire interview process do so because of poor candidate experience, according to LinkedIn? And that only 25% of candidates are satisfied with candidate experience according to Sapia.ai?
Candidate experience is key. But what is candidate experience exactly?
My definition is an experience where every interaction leaves the candidate feeling good about:
โ Themselves (first and foremost โ even if they donโt get the job)
โ The process itself (again, even if they donโt get the job)
โ The company/brand (turn all candidates (successful or not) into raving fans
Iโm cheating a bit. Last week I promised to post 3 things that I found inspiring every Friday. Today Iโm posting 20.
Last night I attended Consult Australiaโs FutureNet awards night for NSW (magnificently convened by Linda Gaunt). It was a COVID-safe event held in the Grand Ballroom of the ICC in Sydney. There were only 30 people in attendance including 19 of the 20 participants, all 4 of the mentors and the facilitators, like me, who...
Friday funny. Youโve heard of the KISS Principle, right? Keep It Simple Stupid (or I prefer Silly). Now Iโd like to introduce the KSS Principle!
KISS Principle
My clients have told me for years that one of my superpowers is breaking down complex concepts and making them simple.
In fact, one of the best testimonials Iโve ever gotten came from Mike Saxton, who said,
A few months ago, I was leading a training session, and I mentioned the KISS Principleโฆand one of the participants said, you should rename it the KSS Principle for Kim Seeling Smith. We had a good laugh, but now I find myself saying it frequently.
Iโve been traveling for a conference and to spend my birthday/4th of July with my sister and best friend.
I love to spend my birthday in the US because itโs the day before the 4th of July โ which makes it a 2-day celebration, in the middle of summer โ with fireworks!
Unfortunately, the following weekend I attended the National Speakers Convention in Nashville, where I promptly got Covid and spent the next weeks isolating instead of going on a road trip with my best friend. The times we live in!
Isolation gave me lots of thinking time โ and lots of time to strategize on new content, so expect fairly regular updates now through the end of the year.
My head is just buzzing with ideas.
Starting with 2 new masterclasses.
Feel free to grab your spot at one or both โ and invite friends and colleagues.
The first is ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ง๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ฐ๐พ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป.
Thank you Sparks+Partners Consulting Engineers for inviting me to run one of my favorite workshops, โSoar with Your Strengthsโ for your end of year offsite last week. The main reason I love this workshop is that it gives you permission to stop beating yourself up about things that you arenโt good at and will never be good at by developing strategies to reach the same outcomes using strengths you do have.
Read More: https://www.igniteglobal.com/2019/07/soar-with-your-strengths-workshop-in-action/
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/
