This document discusses how talent is becoming the key driver of business success in today's changing world of work. It notes several disruptive forces impacting the global workforce, including uneven economic recovery, shifting demographics like population decline and youth unemployment, and rapid advances in technology. To capitalize on opportunities quickly, businesses need to focus on talent acquisition and development. The document then examines trends like rising customer sophistication, changing demographics, the rise of individual choice, and fast-paced technological revolutions. It suggests businesses will need to adapt people practices, work models, and talent strategies to attract, develop and retain top talent in this new environment.

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2015
Wednesday 25th November
The Human Age:
Talent as the Driver of Business Success
HUGH PIPER, OPERATIONS DIRECTOR (STRATEGIC CLIENTS), MANPOWER UK

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Disruptive
Forces
Impacting
the World
of Work
Talent in the Human Age – Certain Uncertainty
Economic Recovery
• Globally uneven
• Recession risk
• Slow job creation
• Income inequality
Shifting Demographics
• Population decline
• Shrinking workforce
• Youth unemployment
• Gender inequality
Rapid Advances in
Technology
• Disruption
• Collaboration
• Mobility
• Sheer speed
Employers need to capitalize on transient competitive advantage quickly –
to do this, talent is critical

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2015
ManpowerGroup: Workforce Experts

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World of Work Trends
RISE OF CUSTOMER
SOPHISTICATION
Rising Customer Sophistication
requires businesses to deliver greater
value and efficiency.
DEMOGRAPHICS
The Talent Mismatch is deepening as
the working age population declines
and the nature of work changes.
INDIVIDUAL CHOICE
Individual Choice will be exercised by
those with in-demand skills. The
Rise of Voice means business must
take note of external social forces.
TECHNOLOGICAL
REVOLUTIONS
Accelerated technology is changing
where, when and how we work. The
rate of change is unprecedented.
World of Work
Trends

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Shifting Demographics
• By 2050, Europe will have almost twice as
many people over the age of 65, as under 15
• By 2020, the US economy’s demand for labor
will outstrip supply by almost 18 million people
• By 2050 China’s over 65s will likely constitute
a population larger than the entire population
of the United States
• In North and West Africa, more than one-
quarter of the population is under age 15
and unemployment rates for young people
exceed 30%
World Population

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Five Generations in the Workplace by 2020
Each generation has different motivations and expectations for work.
Traditionalist
Hierarchical
1928-1945
Gen X
Pragmatic
1961-1979
Gen Y
Immediacy
1980-2000
Gen Z
Digital natives
2001-Present
Boomer
Idealistic
1946-1960

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Technology and the Displacement of Jobs
Compared to the Industrial
Revolution, change is happening
10 times faster and at 300 times
the scale, or roughly 3,000 times
the impact.
Standing still and holding on to
what used to get results is no
longer possible.

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2015
The Changing World of People Supply

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• How do I become more employable?
• How do I compete?
• How do I develop my career?
• How do I grow and develop?
• How do we provide more innovative
solutions?
• How can we connect employers and
talent?
• How do we develop talent to match
client needs?
• How do we provide scale to manage
these programmes
• What value is there to my business
retaining staff?
• How to I attract the right talent?
• How do I retain my core talent?
• At the right cost?
• With the right skills?
• What do I need?
• What do they need?
• How do add value to our student’s
learning – equipping them with
skills for the future
• How do I provide education with
relevance for employers?
• How do we make our university
stand out to students for our links
with business’?
Future Talent
Today
Innovation in Resourcing – Learn whilst you Earn

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The New Normal

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2015
Become A Talent Destination
People Practices
• Today’s practices were created with outdated assumptions – so why are will still using them?
• What new practices will we need in order to attract, develop and retain the talent?
Work Models
• How do we manage talent to drive productivity?
• How do we manage a diverse workforce?
• How do we inject flexibility into our workforce mix?
Talent Sources
• Do we know all of our talent supply options?
• How can we optimize the talent we have?
• What talent strategies can we deploy to reach under-tapped and untapped talent pools?
Talent
Management
Talent
Development
Talent
Resourcing