Future of Talent by Kevin Wheeler (presentatie 14 april 2014)

© 2014, Future of Talent Institute
NRC Carriere | The Netherlands April 2014
Presented by Kevin Wheeler
Future of Talent
Trends 2014 & Beyond

38-40 million fewer workers with a
college/postgraduate degree than needed.
13% more demand than supply.
45 million too few workers with secondary
education. 15% fewer than needed.
90-95 million low-skill workers (without college
or secondary education) than employers will
need. 11% oversupply.
State of Global Labour Supply
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Source: http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/employment_and_growth/the_world_at_work

Conflicting Worlds. . .
Make all the Difference for HR
Serial Processing
Planning
Mindset: permanence
Complicated world
Past & future similar
Whenever
Real time processing/Streaming
Intuition
Mindset: all is transitory
Chaotic World
Past & Future different
Now
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Rise of Career Mosaics
Entrepreneurial Mindset Dominates
GUIDING PRINCIPLE:
Deliberate CHOICE
rather than social
pressure.
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DEFINE SUCCESS
EMBRACE TRAIL & ERROR
DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS

The Augmented Individual
Internet &
software are
augmenting
the human
mind
The “Engine” of the 21st Century
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“Every experience is being mediated and
conceived around how it can be captured
and augmented by our devices."
Mathias Crawford, Stanford University

Social Power of
Automation & Robotics
-McKinsey Global Institute.
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Capital is substituting for Labour

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What’s the
Probability
YOUR Job
will be
Automated?
HIGHLYLIKELYNOTLIKELY

Beyond Words
Video,Texting,IM,Twitter
Shift away from lengthy discourse
wordstocontext
Changing nature of communication
“People of the Screen”
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“Employees will work in more decentralized, specialized
firms, and employer-employee relationships will become
less standardized and more individualized.”
-Rand Report, Future Work Trends, 2004
Lower cash investment needed
Smaller, Leaner, networked Firms
Fun, satisfying, meaningful
Lower cost structure
-Collaborative partnerships
-Virtual organizations
-Co-work
New Ways of Organizing Work
Core
Employees
Core
Employees
Partners
Consultants
Customers
Suppliers
Temps
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The industrial age separated people, organized
them into functions and silos that actually prohibited
sharing and, hence, in many ways inhibited
invention and innovation.
New organizational structures are emerging.
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Firms will need people
with broad, diverse
skills who can learn
quickly,

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Agile Recruiting Becomes Vital
Ability to meet
client needs as
fast as (or faster
than)
expectations.
Systems built for
flexibility and
quick change.
Proactive
sourcing – able
to anticipate
market
direction.
Capable of
quickly assessing
candidates
through
automated tools.
Lower costs;
remain
profitable.

Market Knowledge Drive Profits
SUPPLY TIMEDEMAND MONEY
Economy, Demographics, Workforce, Workplace
Hot Jobs, Hot Sources, Hot Clients

Social Media is key to
candidate awareness and
engagement.
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Social Media Influence
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Candidates & Hiring Managers are Center
Mobile Grows Exponentially
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The rise of mobile
“23% of all
Google
searches
that contain
the word
„job‟ come
from mobile
devices.”
http://www.socialtalent.co/resources
In a survey from Glassdoor,
89% of employees who admit
they’ll look for a new job in the
next year say their mobile
device is an important tool and
resource for their job search.
55% of adults have a
smartphone.
http://pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2014/PI
P_E-reading_011614.pdf

Employers will make decisions about
candidates based on everything about
them on the web.

Candidates will Showcase Their Skills
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Assessment will go Automated
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Sourcing will be about
drawing information from
candidate data22
Search will be composed of a mix of structured and
unstructured, aggregated and integrated data,
streaming and static data.

Big Data Sourcing Tools
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What’s Possible in 3-5 Years?
Aggregation and Intelligent Analysis of multiple,
seemingly unrelated datasets.
Access to vast amounts of unstructured data.
Ranking of quality/trustworthiness/and other factors
based on recorded behaviors.
Ability to prescribe who would best fit a need based on
multiple past searches and probability analysis.
Includes video and audio data

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Jobs that are DYNAMIC,
evolving, global and highly
varied.

Typical Worker 2020-2024
• Half of workforce Typical workers is 35. Has
never had a “normal” job or has had one briefly.
Valued by network with strong social influence scores
and endorsements.
• Finds work via skills marketplaces, peer networks,
collaboration, social media.
• Recruiting is about matching, fit, “now needs,” “now
fulfillment.”
• Mobile, wearable tools abound
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Typical Worker 2020-2024
• Cycles between projects & longer term contracts.
• Expects to be guided by process and goals, not a
manager.
• Self-learning dominates.
• Measure of success is peer respect, goal achievement
(performance), and flexibility.
• Performance measured by social media, web presence,
peer comments, analysis of work output.
• Workplace may be anywhere - mobile/fixed/remote/virtual.
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www.futureoftalent.org
Kevin Wheeler
Founder & Chairman
kwheeler@futureoftalent.org
Follow me on Twitter: @kwheeler
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