Ep 610: Future Skills

It's becoming evident that we are at a critical pivot point for talent acquisition. While the debates around AI are sucking up most of the attention, massive shifts are happening in terms of the shelf life of skills, ongoing challenges with skills acquisition, and upskilling people for a very different future world of work.

So, how should employers think about skills, and how can talent acquisition gain the future focus it needs to drive organizational value?

My guest this week is Lisa Monteith, Head of Talent Acquisition and onboarding for HSBC UK. In our wide-ranging conversation, we talk about the skills challenges facing organizations and the importance of taking a long-term view.

In the interview, we discuss:

• Current talent acquisition challenges
• Selling work as a product
• The shortening lifespan of skills
• Providing easy access to learning
• Total talent thinking
• Learning agility, curiosity, and other skills for the future
• Failing education systems and disappearing entry-level jobs
• Individual responsibility for learning
• Neuroinclusion in the recruiting process and the danger of homogenization
• How does talent acquisition need to re-invent itself for the future?

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