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future of work, The Great Resignation
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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
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).
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. Itโs a tough nut to crack.
If you follow me on here you know that Iโve been through quite the journey with video, which is why Iโm so excited about the next Professional Speakers Australia โ 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.
Youโll take away:
โข How to structure your content to โbake-inโ key triggers that let YouTube know YOUR video is the one they should be promoting
โข Keys to maximising watch time so your target audience sees more of you in action
โข 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/
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/
Have you considered the HUGE opportunity that The Great Resignation provides from a talent acquisition perspective? Think about it, regardless of whether they act on it, MULTIPLE studies show that at least 40% of the workforce is open to looking for other work in 2022.
Read More: https://www.igniteglobal.com/2022/05/talent-acquisition-strategies-to-hire-the-best-in-2022/
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.
