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Break the Crisis and
Complacency Cycle
  Get Ah ead of th e Global Ta len t S h or tage
In the seventh year of a global talent crisis in which more than one-third of employers
          have trouble finding the talent to advance their businesses, companies are becoming
          complacent about the precarious position they find themselves in as they search for
          the right employees. As economies around the world improve, the talent crisis will
          only deepen, making this complacency all the more dangerous. Smart employers are
          developing workforce strategies closely aligned with their business strategies to solve
          the talent acquisition problems they face today and will face in the years to come. In
          the Human Age, it’s this approach to business that separates the companies that
          merely survive from the ones that thrive and win.




          Economies continue to recover from the global recession and financial crisis that stifled growth
          around the world and this is presenting businesses with a new problem—a problem unique to the
          Human Age in which we now live.

          In the Human Age, the major engine of economic growth is human capital, the assets that walk in and out of
          the office every day. As companies find it increasingly hard to hire the talent they need to drive their businesses
          forward, the differentiator between success and failure will be the ability to acquire the best employees.

          We are now in the seventh year of a worldwide talent crisis. Over one-third of employers are reporting
          that they are unable to find the talent their organizations need, according to ManpowerGroup’s 2012
          Talent Shortage Survey. This number is up from under a third, just three years ago, during the worst
          part of the recession. As economies improve, the talent crisis gets worse.


         Figure 1
         Percentage of employers having difficulty filling jobs
         ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey 2012

         80%



         60%

                    40%           41%
                                                  31%                              31%             34%             34%
         40%                                                      30%

         20%



         0%
                    2006           2007            2008             2009            2010            2011             2012




2   |   Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
Making matters more dire, 56% of employers indicated that unfilled positions were expected to have
 little or no impact on key constituents, such as customers and investors, up from 36% of employers
 in 2011. This complacent attitude threatens to exacerbate the already-severe talent crisis.



 Does Maturity Matter?
 The problem is acute and worldwide. In India and Brazil, two of the world’s fastest-growing economies,
 48% and 71% of employers are having trouble filling positions, respectively. In the U.S. and Australia,
 two strong and mature economies, 49% and 50% of employers, respectively, cannot find the right talent
 to help grow their businesses. Even in Europe, where a highly educated workforce and chronically high
 unemployment makes finding talent relatively easy, some employers are having trouble. In Germany,
 42% of employers report difficulties finding good candidates. In Japan, the world’s third-largest
 economy, an astounding 81% of employers indicate that finding qualified hires is a problem.

Figure 2
Percentage of employers having difficulty filling jobs by country
ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey 2012
81%
  71%
                            51%
                           50%
                           49%
                          48%
                          48%
                          47%
                          47%
                         45%
                         45%
                        43%
                       42%
                       41%
                       41%
                      40%
                     37%
                     37%


                    36%
                    36%
                    36%
                    35%
                    35%
                   34%
                   34%
                   33%
                 29%
                 28%
                27%
                26%
               25%
               24%
              23%
              22%
            17%
           14%
           14%
          11%
         10%
         9%
        7%
      2%
          Japan
           Brazil
       Bulgaria
      Australia
             U.S.
            India
  New Zealand
         Taiwan
       Panama
      Romania
     Argentina
        Mexico
      Germany
         Turkey
            Peru
        Austria
     Singapore
        Poland
    Guatemala
       Sweden
           Israel
    Hong Kong
    Costa Rica
Global Average
       Hungary
     Colombia
         France
   Switzerland
       Belgium
       Slovenia
        Canada
        Greece
           China
        Norway
       Slovakia
             Italy
Czech Republic
               UK
   South Africa
           Spain
   Netherlands
         Ireland




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In Japan in particular, this is an old problem. For the second year in a row, Japan tops
           ManpowerGroup’s list of countries where employers have difficulty finding needed talent. Employers in
           the Asia-Pacific region, in fact, are having a harder time finding the right fit compared to those in any
           other region in the world. Nearly half (45%) of employers in countries like Australia, New Zealand and
           Taiwan can’t find the right talent to move their businesses forward.

          Figure 3
          Perceived Impact of Talent Shortages on Key Constituents
          ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey 2012



                                                           2012         2011



                                                     13%
         High impact
                                                                  20%

                                                                                  29%
         Medium impact
                                                                                                37%

         Low impact
                                                                                        31%
                                                                          25%

                                                                          25%
         No impact
                                                 11%

                                 2%
         Don’t know
                                          7%

                           0%                10%               20%                30%              40%                 50%




           And the problem is only getting worse. As the economies of the Asia-Pacific continue to grow at
           breakneck speed, finding the salespeople, engineers and trade workers to fuel that growth has
           become harder and harder. In Japan, the problem is exacerbated by an aging workforce, a problem
           that many other economies don’t have.

           Japan, however, should be an instructive example to chief human resource officers (CHROs)
           worldwide. In the seven years that ManpowerGroup has been conducting its Talent Shortage Survey,
           Japan has been among the countries with the most severe talent shortage issues. In that time, Japan
           has also had one of the slowest-growing economies among G-20 nations. While there are many
           factors to blame for Japan’s ongoing economic difficulties, a lack of talent to fuel growth is among




4   |   Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
them. In the Human Age, it’s the power of human potential that drives companies forward and gives
   them an edge in the global marketplace.

   But this is an old problem, one that many employers are all too familiar with. And that, ironically, is
   the new problem: Complacency has gripped employers around the world and threatens to derail their
   business plans in the years to come.


Figure 4
reasons for difficulty filling jobs
ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey 2012



Lack of available applicants/
no applicants                                                                                     33%
Lack of technical
competencies (hard skills)                                                                        33%
Lack of experience                                                              24%
Lack of employability skills
(soft skills)                                                       18%
Looking for more pay than
is offered                                                 13%
Candidate unwilling to work
‘part-time’/‘contingent’ roles           4%
Undesirable geographic
location                                 4%

                                 0%               10%                20%                 30%                 40%




   Warding Off Hysteresis
   Why have so many employers given up on maximizing the potential of their businesses when
   confronted with the formidable but solvable problem of finding the right talent? The answer might lie in
   human psychology.

   “A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis,” writes vaunted financial
   columnist James Surowiecki in The New Yorker regarding the ongoing unemployment crisis in the
   U.S. (No End in Sight, April 30, 2012). Policy-makers have done little to address the unemployment
   crisis in the U.S. as the number of long-term unemployed swells to nearly 13 million Americans.

   Today, the U.S. is in danger of falling into what economists call hysteresis in the job market, which is
   when those long-term unemployed become permanently unemployed because of a variety of factors:




                                                                                                                   |   5
Employer bias against the unemployed; the erosion of job skills from being away from the workforce;
           and a loss of confidence among the unemployed that they can find work.

           In Europe in the 1980s, governments and policy-making institutions did little when unemployment
           increased and, after enough people had been unemployed for enough time, unemployment rates
           stayed stubbornly near 10% because of hysteresis in the job market. The prescriptions to combat
           hysteresis in the job market are well-known: subsidized job-sharing programs and more aggressive
           monetary and fiscal policy are among them. Why isn’t there more urgency to deal with the problem?
           Because we’re starting to get used to it.

           To be sure, employers are implementing smart workforce solutions in response to the talent crisis,
           according to the ManpowerGroup’s 2012 Talent Shortage Survey.

           One in four employers provides more training to existing employees. About one in eight expands the
           search for candidates outside their immediate geographic region. Roughly the same number appoints
           candidates to roles they aren’t quite qualified for but can learn to grow into. All are effective ways of
           dealing with talent shortages.

           Figure 5
           strategies employers are pursuing to overcome talent shortages
           ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey 2012



         Providing additional training and
         development to existing staff                                                                    25%

         Broadening search outside of
         local region                                                    12%
         Appointing people without job
         skills currently, but do have                                   12%
         potential to learn/grow

         Focusing more on staff retention in
         jobs where recruitment is difficult                    9%

         Increasing starting salaries                         8%

         Enhancing benefits packages,
         including signing bonus                           7%

         Increasing the focus on
         improving pipeline                                7%
         Partnering with educational
         institutions to create curriculum                 7%
         aligned to talent needs

                                               0%                10%                      20%                          30%




6   |   Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
While effective by themselves in the short term, these strategies will ultimately fall short in
addressing the long-term talent crisis unless they are executed within the framework of a larger,
holistic strategy.

The leading employers employ a workforce strategy closely aligned with their overall business
strategy and use various methods to find the right talent to grow their businesses. These employers
are aware of both current and future talent shortages and are far from complacent. By creating a
workforce strategy that anticipates talent shortages, they are aware of skills gaps and other human
resource issues they will face this year and years hence and are already taking appropriate steps to
address those challenges.




Brake Before It’s Too Late
If employers don’t think that leaving important positions unfilled is a problem now, they will several
years from now (when it will be too late). As economies around the world continue to rebound
from the recession of 2008 and 2009, unemployment rates will go down and skilled talent will only
become harder to come by. Smart employers are relying on their senior human resource leaders
to stay ahead of this trend and to continue to find top talent by building sophisticated workforce
strategies and executing on those strategies.

In a meeting recently held between company CEOs, CHROs and senior executives at
ManpowerGroup, the CEOs and their CHROs were confronted with alarming data about a shortage
of qualified talent, a shrinking pool of candidates from which they would have to find qualified hires
in the years to come. Each CEO turned to their CHRO and said: “We’re not going to have that
problem, are we?”

Business leaders will depend on their HR leaders to find and recruit the talent necessary to drive
business forward, even as competition for that talent intensifies.

In the Information Age, marked by the rise of information technology, employers that effectively
adopted the latest technologies and integrated them into their businesses came out ahead. Leading
employers know that in the Human Age the ingenuity of individuals and individuals collaborating as
groups will distance their businesses from the competition.

HR leaders need to break out of complacency and realize that even if key stakeholders won’t
be affected this year by talent shortages, they will be affected next year, or the year after that.
Developing a workforce strategy around future hiring and then executing on that strategy will be the
key for human resource executives to overcome the talent shortage crisis and lead their companies
to success.




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The Solution:
           A Workforce Strategy
           A workforce strategy is a holistic assessment of your company’s business plan, the long-term
           talent needs of the organization and an approach toward managing both supply and demand of
           talent. It should also take into account external factors that could affect talent supply, like evolving
           technology, demographic shifts and rising demand from other companies. Just as a company
           considers supply of needed raw materials before attempting to manufacture a product, so too
           should it consider its human resource needs before executing on a business strategy. A workforce
           strategy should be tied closely to business strategy and should do more than simply fill vacancies—
           it should help drive the business forward.

                     STEP 1                           STEP 2                           STEP 3



                Analysis
               of Internal                      Workforce                        Actionable
               & External                        Scan                            Solutions
                Forces

           Once the goals of the business are clear, there are three steps to
           creating a workforce strategy:

           Step 1. Scope out the current and future talent needs of the business, taking into
           account external factors that could affect those needs, like changing business conditions and
           emerging technologies.

           The first step is understanding the business strategy. How can employers recruit without knowing
           what workers will need to accomplish in the short- and long-term?

           For example, the business strategy may set an initial public offering as a goal in three years, which
           means that the company will need to hire accounting and legal talent for both short and long-term
           projects. How that talent is efficiently sourced, acquired, developed and, when necessary, retained,
           requires a nuanced understanding of the business strategy.

           Step 2. Perform a workforce scan and assess the available workforce supply—that is,
           human resources.

           With the deepening global talent crisis, determining what labor is available to help grow a business
           becomes increasingly complicated. More often than not, a simple survey of a geographical region for




8   |   Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
qualified nurse practitioners will come up short when it        employers the ability to scale workforce quickly and
comes to the needs of a growing hospital system.                relatively easily, depending on demand and changing
                                                                business conditions.
More comprehensive, a workforce scan also assesses
the availability of workers from neighboring regions,           Within the framework of a workforce strategy, human
educational institutions and even other countries               resource leaders should consider specialized solutions
whose workers might be willing to move. It also                 that best align with their needs, goals and capabilities.
assesses demographic factors that could affect the
long-term viability of a labor pool.
                                                                Specialized Solution: Teachable Fit
A workforce scan can reveal both untapped                       Not all skills gaps are created equal. If an otherwise
opportunities and unanticipated challenges.                     qualified job candidate isn’t familiar with the finer points
                                                                of HTML 5 or the specific type of welding required for
Step 3. Craft solutions to fill any perceived gaps              the position, these things can be taught. On the other
between needs and the available workforce.                      hand, if an individual is applying for a position in Sales
                                                                but is not outgoing or empathetic, it’s a lost cause, as
Different hiring needs require different staffing               these are skills gaps that can’t be bridged.
solutions. A company that has a business strategy
and road-map that requires many short-term                      Consider a large telecom provider that builds and
technology projects would approach recruiting and               maintains cell phone towers. The company needs a
hiring differently than a company that has plans                steady flow of technicians to service the towers once they
to expand a retail presence across a region. Both               are built. Training the technical staff takes time, but
companies will need to increase workforce, but the              the company has planned far in advance when the towers
most efficient and practical ways to do so differ               will be built and therefore has time to train candidates.
greatly for each company.                                       Complicating things for the telecom company is that
The company with short-term technology projects                 there is a lack of qualified technicians in the area
would benefit from engaging flexible workers on a               who could be easily hired. To acquire experienced
limited basis. The company that wants to expand its             candidates for the position would require poaching
retail presence would benefit from recruiting employees         from other telecoms that offer comparable pay
with core skills essential for retail—like ability to talk to   and benefits and this could be expensive and
customers and comfort with math—and teach them to               time-consuming. A better option would be to find
fit into the company’s business strategy.                       candidates who are a Teachable Fit.

In the Human Age, the companies that win will realize           An analysis of the position would reveal that
that an anticipated talent shortage is a problem                candidates require a certain level of technical
they need to address immediately by creating an                 acumen and working knowledge of electrical
appropriate strategy and executing on it.                       engineering. Both are teachable skills. Other
                                                                aspects of the job—like an ability to interface
Utilizing an effective workforce strategy, employers            with customers and fearlessness of heights—are
can move from relying on what talent comes their way            not teachable. A commitment, on the part of the
to learning how to manufacture it themselves when               candidate, to learn the company’s technology
they need it. A successful workforce strategy gives             inside and out is a requirement.




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In recruiting for the position, the company could interview other kinds of technicians who want to
             change careers or students graduating from technical schools with basic degrees. The company
             needs to carefully assess candidates on electrical aptitude as well as interpersonal skills and
             willingness to learn. It could also consider partnering with a local community college or trade school
             on a certificate course that specifically teaches the skills the company is looking for.

         Figure 6
         Teachable Fit Framework
         ManpowerGroup Teachable fit: A New approach for easing the talent mismatch


                                                                      Important?           Teachable?
                                  Capabilities                        1 (low) - 5 (high)   1 (low) - 5 (high)



         Knowledge                Academic/Professional Discipline
         Business or academic
         disciplines              Industry/Function/Process

                                  Technical

                                  Problem Solving                                                                Fixed
         Skills
         Demonstrated aptitudes   Communication
         and practices, both
         “hard” and “soft”
                                  Planning/Organization                                                         Flexible

                                  Collaboration/Teamwork

                                  Self-Management/Autonomy
         Values & Mindset
         Attitudes that people    Initiative
         bring to jobs and jobs
         need in people
                                  Motivation to Learn

                                  Service Orientation
         Personality &
         Intelligence             Analytical
         Basic character and
         mental traits
                                  Capacity to Learn




             Benefits: Teachable Fit is among the most popular methods that successful employers use to
             address talent shortages. About one out of every eight employers that successfully overcame talent
             shortages used this method, according to the ManpowerGroup 2012 Talent Shortage Survey. The
             method allows employers to greatly expand the pool of possible candidates for a position. By
             recruiting for certain skills that are hard to train and training skills that are easy to learn, employers
             are investing in highly valuable individuals and turning them into loyal employees.




10   |   Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
Specialized Solution: Strategic Migration
The concept is simple: If there aren’t enough available skilled workers in your area, look to other
geographical regions or even other countries for the employees you need and bring them to you.
With a lack of international certifications for many trades and immigration laws to contend with,
not to mention the real-world difficulties in moving people from place to place, even within national
borders, the execution is a bit more complicated.

While many jobs today, especially in technology and customer service, can be offshored, there are
many more yet that cannot be performed remotely—construction, healthcare and foodservice jobs,
for instance.

Shipbuilding positions must be filled locally. According to a recent ManpowerGroup paper (Strategic
Migration—A Short-Term Solution to the Skilled Trades Shortage, August 2010), U.S. shipbuilding
companies have strategically migrated talent to fill a need for skilled workers. Erie Shipbuilding LLC
in Ohio secured H2B visas for workers from Mexico and Croatia, after proving that they could not
hire the required talent locally.

Benefits: When there is a local need for skilled labor and a glut of talent elsewhere, it can be a
good solution for both the employer and worker to migrate that talent to where it is valued most.




                                                  United
    Canada                                       Kingdom

                                            Ireland           Germany
                                                  Belgium
                                                                   Bulgaria
       United States                          Spain
                                                      Italy                                   China              Japan
                                                              Greece
                                                                                     India




                               Brazil


                                                                                                         Australia




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Specialized Solution: Flexible Working
           Flexible working has become an increasingly popular employment strategy for leading employers as
           the world comes out of recession.


           Figure 7
           How your company’s workforce will change over the next 5 years
           ManpowerGroup Navigating the Human Age


          More part-time, temporary,
          or contract workers                                                               57.8%

          More telecommuting                                          25.5%

          More offshore or
          outsourced workers                                    21.5%

          More older workers (aged 55+)                      19.9%

          Don’t know                                     16.8%

          Other types of changes to the
          nature of work                       2.9%


                                          0%              20%              40%               60%               80%             100%

                                           Source: McKinsey Global Institute US Jobs Survey, 2011; McKinsey Global Institute Analysis




           By the end of 2010, those working in the U.S. contingent worker industry accounted for 1.69% of
           the U.S. workforce, up from 1.47% in January 2010, the largest annual increase ever, according
           to a report from Staffing Industry Analysts, a research and advisory firm focused on staffing and
           contingent labor. The number of workers dedicated to this industry is often used as a proxy for how
           popular flexible working is among employers. The number continues to rise. According to data from
           the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1.88% of U.S. workers were working in the industry as of April 2012.

           Instead of hiring full-time employees to tackle short-term technology, legal or accounting projects,
           many firms are hiring contingent workers who are highly skilled in those areas. The advantages
           are clear:

              1.	 Quick ramp-ups without the hangover: Hire a large number of workers for a short-term project
                  without having to invest long-term in the costs of maintaining a large workforce.




12   |   Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
2.	 Affording high-end talent: Bringing on CFO-level       most employers is getting the most out of a skilled
      talent for an accounting system migration is too       workforce by removing and outsourcing the menial
      costly for most firms. Hiring such talent out of a     tasks those workers inevitably perform as part of their
      staffing firm for three months is more within reach.   daily duties so that they can focus on the specialized
                                                             tasks for which they are highly paid. A good example
  3.	 Try out workers as business conditions change.
                                                             would be a consulting firm hiring administrative
      In a recovery, sometimes a company wants to
                                                             assistants to file expenses, organize calendars
      grow but doesn’t know by how much. Hiring
                                                             and perform other menial office tasks so that the
      flexible staffers enables companies to try out
                                                             consultants themselves can focus exclusively on
      workers while anticipating growth and to keep
                                                             acquiring and servicing clients.
      the best ones as needed.
                                                             The other method of hyperspecialization that can work
As XL Health, a Medicare insurance plan vendor
                                                             for employers is changing the way they look at the
launched in 1997, has continued to expand, its
                                                             work that needs to be accomplished and dividing it into
staffing needs have become less certain. So,
                                                             ever-smaller tasks that can be performed by an army
the company has embraced a strategy of hiring
                                                             of incredibly specialized workers. This works especially
pharmacists from staffing firms on a short-term basis
                                                             well for software development projects, for instance.
with the intention of hiring them full-time if there is
a good fit. How many hired depends on how the                A company might need to build a series of websites
business is doing. In the past several years, the            to market and sell their goods to consumers. Each
company has brought in about 530 temps and has               website will require a content management system,
hired about 164 of them.                                     an e-commerce engine, a database, a user-interface
                                                             and aesthetic design, among other things. Instead of
Benefits: Flexible staffing strategies give small            hiring one or two developers to plan out the project,
companies the ability to hire big-company talent and         design the website, the interface, the database and
big companies the ability to be nimble.                      so on, the company could farm out the project to an
                                                             organization like TopCoder, a software development
                                                             community where participants compete for very small
Specialized Solution:
                                                             parts of development projects.
Hyperspecialization
According to a recent article in Harvard Business            Coders specialized in building databases would
Review, the work of the future will be broken up into        compete to build the best and cheapest database for
smaller and smaller bits until it is being performed         the company. So, too, with the e-commerce engine,
optimally by workers specially trained to tackle             and so on. Members of the development community
each of those bits many times more efficiently than          would compete to manage the project and to sew
non-specialized workers who take on larger, more             the different pieces of it together. The end result, if
complicated tasks (The Age of Hyperspecialization,           managed properly, is a website that is cheaper, better
July-August 2011).                                           and less time-consuming to make.

There are two ways that hyperspecialization works            Benefits: Hyperspecialization can save companies
for employers. The first and more practical for              money, freeing their workers to focus on what they’re




                                                                                                                       |   13
best at, resulting in improved final products. By hiring   93% of U.S. women who take a career break want to
     labor that’s relatively easy to find and inexpensive to    return to full-time work, but only 74% do so.
     pay, employers can get the most out of their hard-
                                                                Another untapped talent market is youth. Youth
     to-find, expensive workers. Breaking up work into
                                                                around the world often have more trouble than other
     smaller bits can turn one or two risky, expensive hires
                                                                age groups in finding work because they lack skills
     into many low-risk, highly specialized workers who
                                                                and experience. And, in economic downturns, youth
     produce better work faster and cheaper.
                                                                are often the first to be laid off. During recoveries,
                                                                they are among the last to be hired.

     Specialized Solution: Exploring                            Youth unemployment rates around the world
     Untapped Talent Markets                                    are typically two-to-four times higher than adult
                                                                unemployment rates. Younger people, even those
     Many employers that have trouble finding the right
                                                                with college degrees, often have trouble finding work
     talent might be surprised to learn that there are two
                                                                compared to those who have been in the workforce
     vast and largely untapped talent markets that are
                                                                longer because of a lack of experience or training. When
     undoubtedly all around them regardless of where they
                                                                economies go bad, youth are often the first to lose their
     are located: women and youth.
                                                                jobs and often the last to benefit from a recovery.
     Even in Northern European countries, where
                                                                While younger workers may not have the hard skills
     workforce participation by women is at its highest,
                                                                and experience of older workers, they do have—as
     men outnumber women in the workforce. According            do all workers—valuable and hard-to-teach values
     to a 2008 report from the Organisation for Economic        and attitudes related to work. Companies that wish to
     Cooperation and Development (OECD), just over 80%          tap into this market can do so by supporting career
     of women participated in the workforce in Iceland          guidance programs for youth still in school and by
     compared with nearly 90% of men; Iceland is the            supporting projects that provide career guidance and
     country where the ratio most favors women. On the          labor market information for young job seekers.
     other end of the spectrum is Turkey, where one in four
     women participates in the workforce versus about           Bringing more youth into a company can also help it
     two-thirds of men.                                         innovate and stay ahead of its competition. Some of
                                                                the most innovative companies in the world (Google
     While there are cultural barriers in many countries        and Facebook, for instance) have workforces with low
     to women taking certain jobs in the workforce, the         average ages.
     main barrier to entry for women is inflexible work
     environments. Many women are the sole caretakers           Benefits: Making a workforce more flexible to be
     of their children and cannot be in an office during        more inclusive to women workers can give companies
     certain hours of the day. Companies around the world       a significant advantage over competitors in courting
     have adapted to this need by offering flexible hours       half of the labor pool. Developing a pipeline of
     and telecommuting options. A lack of flexibility in the    inexpensive and energetic young labor can provide
     workplace often prevents women who leave work              a company with the talent it needs at a cost it can
     temporarily, usually to have children, from returning.     afford. It can also have the added benefit of injecting
     According to a 2007 report from the World Bank,            innovation into company culture.




14   |   Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
Specialized Solution: Expanding                                 a backwards-looking document—employers should
                                                                look at the employability profile of job candidates, a
Tapped Talent Markets
                                                                document that scopes out future performance. While
Sometimes the best talent is right where you least              a resume focuses on past experience, titles and
expect to find it. As talent markets tighten around             educational certificates, a job success profile focuses on
the world, one promising solution for employers is to           skills and core competencies.
change the way they think about work and workers.
                                                                A resume without a degree in chemical engineering
Most employers use conventional job descriptions to             might disqualify a candidate for a job with a
fill positions. While job descriptions adequately explain       description that requires one, further shrinking the
responsibilities and requirements, they fall short when         possible pool of talent to fill that position. However,
it comes to truly scoping out the desired outcomes              an employability profile for the same candidate
for a position and the core competencies required to            who demonstrates scientific acumen through past
deliver those outcomes.                                         experience in a biology research lab liaising with
                                                                company management might fit a job success profile
Leading employers are using job success profiles                for a chemical engineer. In fact, once a job success
instead of job descriptions. Job success profiles               profile is created, it might be discovered that an
describe the role within the company and the industry           ability to communicate with multiple layers of an
as well as how to do it, considering all layers of the          organization is as important to success as (or even
job. Job success profiles answer the questions: What            more important than) chemical engineering acumen;
does success look like in the role? How does it relate          and managing up and down an organization isn’t
to others within and outside the company? How will              something you can have a degree in.
this role fit into the larger success of the company?
                                                                Benefits: At a time when the right talent is in short
Effectively utilizing job success profiles also requires that   supply, having the ability to take a second look at
workers are viewed differently. Rather than assessing           candidates once thought unsuitable can greatly
skills and competency using a resume—essentially                enlarge the pool of possible talent.




Redefine The New Normal
As the worldwide talent shortage deepens and evolves into a long-term crisis, too many employers have
accepted unfilled positions and lost productivity as a new normal. Companies that succeed in the Human Age
will closely align comprehensive workforce and business strategies. A successful workforce strategy will identify
and solve current talent acquisition challenges, anticipate future issues and implement necessary solutions.

Once there is a workforce strategy in place, human resource leaders should consider employing various
specialized solutions—including hiring workers who are a Teachable Fit, strategically migrating talent, employing
flexible workers, hyperspecializing work, recruiting within untapped pools of talent like women and youth and
expanding tapped talent markets—to find the best workers.

Employers not worried about the effect of unfilled positions on their bottomline are putting themselves at a
serious disadvantage to those that realize that in the Human Age, talent sets companies apart.




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Break The Crisis And Complacency Cycle

  • 1. Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle Get Ah ead of th e Global Ta len t S h or tage
  • 2. In the seventh year of a global talent crisis in which more than one-third of employers have trouble finding the talent to advance their businesses, companies are becoming complacent about the precarious position they find themselves in as they search for the right employees. As economies around the world improve, the talent crisis will only deepen, making this complacency all the more dangerous. Smart employers are developing workforce strategies closely aligned with their business strategies to solve the talent acquisition problems they face today and will face in the years to come. In the Human Age, it’s this approach to business that separates the companies that merely survive from the ones that thrive and win. Economies continue to recover from the global recession and financial crisis that stifled growth around the world and this is presenting businesses with a new problem—a problem unique to the Human Age in which we now live. In the Human Age, the major engine of economic growth is human capital, the assets that walk in and out of the office every day. As companies find it increasingly hard to hire the talent they need to drive their businesses forward, the differentiator between success and failure will be the ability to acquire the best employees. We are now in the seventh year of a worldwide talent crisis. Over one-third of employers are reporting that they are unable to find the talent their organizations need, according to ManpowerGroup’s 2012 Talent Shortage Survey. This number is up from under a third, just three years ago, during the worst part of the recession. As economies improve, the talent crisis gets worse. Figure 1 Percentage of employers having difficulty filling jobs ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey 2012 80% 60% 40% 41% 31% 31% 34% 34% 40% 30% 20% 0% 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2 | Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
  • 3. Making matters more dire, 56% of employers indicated that unfilled positions were expected to have little or no impact on key constituents, such as customers and investors, up from 36% of employers in 2011. This complacent attitude threatens to exacerbate the already-severe talent crisis. Does Maturity Matter? The problem is acute and worldwide. In India and Brazil, two of the world’s fastest-growing economies, 48% and 71% of employers are having trouble filling positions, respectively. In the U.S. and Australia, two strong and mature economies, 49% and 50% of employers, respectively, cannot find the right talent to help grow their businesses. Even in Europe, where a highly educated workforce and chronically high unemployment makes finding talent relatively easy, some employers are having trouble. In Germany, 42% of employers report difficulties finding good candidates. In Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, an astounding 81% of employers indicate that finding qualified hires is a problem. Figure 2 Percentage of employers having difficulty filling jobs by country ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey 2012 81% 71% 51% 50% 49% 48% 48% 47% 47% 45% 45% 43% 42% 41% 41% 40% 37% 37% 36% 36% 36% 35% 35% 34% 34% 33% 29% 28% 27% 26% 25% 24% 23% 22% 17% 14% 14% 11% 10% 9% 7% 2% Japan Brazil Bulgaria Australia U.S. India New Zealand Taiwan Panama Romania Argentina Mexico Germany Turkey Peru Austria Singapore Poland Guatemala Sweden Israel Hong Kong Costa Rica Global Average Hungary Colombia France Switzerland Belgium Slovenia Canada Greece China Norway Slovakia Italy Czech Republic UK South Africa Spain Netherlands Ireland | 3
  • 4. In Japan in particular, this is an old problem. For the second year in a row, Japan tops ManpowerGroup’s list of countries where employers have difficulty finding needed talent. Employers in the Asia-Pacific region, in fact, are having a harder time finding the right fit compared to those in any other region in the world. Nearly half (45%) of employers in countries like Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan can’t find the right talent to move their businesses forward. Figure 3 Perceived Impact of Talent Shortages on Key Constituents ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey 2012 2012 2011 13% High impact 20% 29% Medium impact 37% Low impact 31% 25% 25% No impact 11% 2% Don’t know 7% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% And the problem is only getting worse. As the economies of the Asia-Pacific continue to grow at breakneck speed, finding the salespeople, engineers and trade workers to fuel that growth has become harder and harder. In Japan, the problem is exacerbated by an aging workforce, a problem that many other economies don’t have. Japan, however, should be an instructive example to chief human resource officers (CHROs) worldwide. In the seven years that ManpowerGroup has been conducting its Talent Shortage Survey, Japan has been among the countries with the most severe talent shortage issues. In that time, Japan has also had one of the slowest-growing economies among G-20 nations. While there are many factors to blame for Japan’s ongoing economic difficulties, a lack of talent to fuel growth is among 4 | Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
  • 5. them. In the Human Age, it’s the power of human potential that drives companies forward and gives them an edge in the global marketplace. But this is an old problem, one that many employers are all too familiar with. And that, ironically, is the new problem: Complacency has gripped employers around the world and threatens to derail their business plans in the years to come. Figure 4 reasons for difficulty filling jobs ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey 2012 Lack of available applicants/ no applicants 33% Lack of technical competencies (hard skills) 33% Lack of experience 24% Lack of employability skills (soft skills) 18% Looking for more pay than is offered 13% Candidate unwilling to work ‘part-time’/‘contingent’ roles 4% Undesirable geographic location 4% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% Warding Off Hysteresis Why have so many employers given up on maximizing the potential of their businesses when confronted with the formidable but solvable problem of finding the right talent? The answer might lie in human psychology. “A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis,” writes vaunted financial columnist James Surowiecki in The New Yorker regarding the ongoing unemployment crisis in the U.S. (No End in Sight, April 30, 2012). Policy-makers have done little to address the unemployment crisis in the U.S. as the number of long-term unemployed swells to nearly 13 million Americans. Today, the U.S. is in danger of falling into what economists call hysteresis in the job market, which is when those long-term unemployed become permanently unemployed because of a variety of factors: | 5
  • 6. Employer bias against the unemployed; the erosion of job skills from being away from the workforce; and a loss of confidence among the unemployed that they can find work. In Europe in the 1980s, governments and policy-making institutions did little when unemployment increased and, after enough people had been unemployed for enough time, unemployment rates stayed stubbornly near 10% because of hysteresis in the job market. The prescriptions to combat hysteresis in the job market are well-known: subsidized job-sharing programs and more aggressive monetary and fiscal policy are among them. Why isn’t there more urgency to deal with the problem? Because we’re starting to get used to it. To be sure, employers are implementing smart workforce solutions in response to the talent crisis, according to the ManpowerGroup’s 2012 Talent Shortage Survey. One in four employers provides more training to existing employees. About one in eight expands the search for candidates outside their immediate geographic region. Roughly the same number appoints candidates to roles they aren’t quite qualified for but can learn to grow into. All are effective ways of dealing with talent shortages. Figure 5 strategies employers are pursuing to overcome talent shortages ManpowerGroup Talent Shortage Survey 2012 Providing additional training and development to existing staff 25% Broadening search outside of local region 12% Appointing people without job skills currently, but do have 12% potential to learn/grow Focusing more on staff retention in jobs where recruitment is difficult 9% Increasing starting salaries 8% Enhancing benefits packages, including signing bonus 7% Increasing the focus on improving pipeline 7% Partnering with educational institutions to create curriculum 7% aligned to talent needs 0% 10% 20% 30% 6 | Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
  • 7. While effective by themselves in the short term, these strategies will ultimately fall short in addressing the long-term talent crisis unless they are executed within the framework of a larger, holistic strategy. The leading employers employ a workforce strategy closely aligned with their overall business strategy and use various methods to find the right talent to grow their businesses. These employers are aware of both current and future talent shortages and are far from complacent. By creating a workforce strategy that anticipates talent shortages, they are aware of skills gaps and other human resource issues they will face this year and years hence and are already taking appropriate steps to address those challenges. Brake Before It’s Too Late If employers don’t think that leaving important positions unfilled is a problem now, they will several years from now (when it will be too late). As economies around the world continue to rebound from the recession of 2008 and 2009, unemployment rates will go down and skilled talent will only become harder to come by. Smart employers are relying on their senior human resource leaders to stay ahead of this trend and to continue to find top talent by building sophisticated workforce strategies and executing on those strategies. In a meeting recently held between company CEOs, CHROs and senior executives at ManpowerGroup, the CEOs and their CHROs were confronted with alarming data about a shortage of qualified talent, a shrinking pool of candidates from which they would have to find qualified hires in the years to come. Each CEO turned to their CHRO and said: “We’re not going to have that problem, are we?” Business leaders will depend on their HR leaders to find and recruit the talent necessary to drive business forward, even as competition for that talent intensifies. In the Information Age, marked by the rise of information technology, employers that effectively adopted the latest technologies and integrated them into their businesses came out ahead. Leading employers know that in the Human Age the ingenuity of individuals and individuals collaborating as groups will distance their businesses from the competition. HR leaders need to break out of complacency and realize that even if key stakeholders won’t be affected this year by talent shortages, they will be affected next year, or the year after that. Developing a workforce strategy around future hiring and then executing on that strategy will be the key for human resource executives to overcome the talent shortage crisis and lead their companies to success. | 7
  • 8. The Solution: A Workforce Strategy A workforce strategy is a holistic assessment of your company’s business plan, the long-term talent needs of the organization and an approach toward managing both supply and demand of talent. It should also take into account external factors that could affect talent supply, like evolving technology, demographic shifts and rising demand from other companies. Just as a company considers supply of needed raw materials before attempting to manufacture a product, so too should it consider its human resource needs before executing on a business strategy. A workforce strategy should be tied closely to business strategy and should do more than simply fill vacancies— it should help drive the business forward. STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 Analysis of Internal Workforce Actionable & External Scan Solutions Forces Once the goals of the business are clear, there are three steps to creating a workforce strategy: Step 1. Scope out the current and future talent needs of the business, taking into account external factors that could affect those needs, like changing business conditions and emerging technologies. The first step is understanding the business strategy. How can employers recruit without knowing what workers will need to accomplish in the short- and long-term? For example, the business strategy may set an initial public offering as a goal in three years, which means that the company will need to hire accounting and legal talent for both short and long-term projects. How that talent is efficiently sourced, acquired, developed and, when necessary, retained, requires a nuanced understanding of the business strategy. Step 2. Perform a workforce scan and assess the available workforce supply—that is, human resources. With the deepening global talent crisis, determining what labor is available to help grow a business becomes increasingly complicated. More often than not, a simple survey of a geographical region for 8 | Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
  • 9. qualified nurse practitioners will come up short when it employers the ability to scale workforce quickly and comes to the needs of a growing hospital system. relatively easily, depending on demand and changing business conditions. More comprehensive, a workforce scan also assesses the availability of workers from neighboring regions, Within the framework of a workforce strategy, human educational institutions and even other countries resource leaders should consider specialized solutions whose workers might be willing to move. It also that best align with their needs, goals and capabilities. assesses demographic factors that could affect the long-term viability of a labor pool. Specialized Solution: Teachable Fit A workforce scan can reveal both untapped Not all skills gaps are created equal. If an otherwise opportunities and unanticipated challenges. qualified job candidate isn’t familiar with the finer points of HTML 5 or the specific type of welding required for Step 3. Craft solutions to fill any perceived gaps the position, these things can be taught. On the other between needs and the available workforce. hand, if an individual is applying for a position in Sales but is not outgoing or empathetic, it’s a lost cause, as Different hiring needs require different staffing these are skills gaps that can’t be bridged. solutions. A company that has a business strategy and road-map that requires many short-term Consider a large telecom provider that builds and technology projects would approach recruiting and maintains cell phone towers. The company needs a hiring differently than a company that has plans steady flow of technicians to service the towers once they to expand a retail presence across a region. Both are built. Training the technical staff takes time, but companies will need to increase workforce, but the the company has planned far in advance when the towers most efficient and practical ways to do so differ will be built and therefore has time to train candidates. greatly for each company. Complicating things for the telecom company is that The company with short-term technology projects there is a lack of qualified technicians in the area would benefit from engaging flexible workers on a who could be easily hired. To acquire experienced limited basis. The company that wants to expand its candidates for the position would require poaching retail presence would benefit from recruiting employees from other telecoms that offer comparable pay with core skills essential for retail—like ability to talk to and benefits and this could be expensive and customers and comfort with math—and teach them to time-consuming. A better option would be to find fit into the company’s business strategy. candidates who are a Teachable Fit. In the Human Age, the companies that win will realize An analysis of the position would reveal that that an anticipated talent shortage is a problem candidates require a certain level of technical they need to address immediately by creating an acumen and working knowledge of electrical appropriate strategy and executing on it. engineering. Both are teachable skills. Other aspects of the job—like an ability to interface Utilizing an effective workforce strategy, employers with customers and fearlessness of heights—are can move from relying on what talent comes their way not teachable. A commitment, on the part of the to learning how to manufacture it themselves when candidate, to learn the company’s technology they need it. A successful workforce strategy gives inside and out is a requirement. | 9
  • 10. In recruiting for the position, the company could interview other kinds of technicians who want to change careers or students graduating from technical schools with basic degrees. The company needs to carefully assess candidates on electrical aptitude as well as interpersonal skills and willingness to learn. It could also consider partnering with a local community college or trade school on a certificate course that specifically teaches the skills the company is looking for. Figure 6 Teachable Fit Framework ManpowerGroup Teachable fit: A New approach for easing the talent mismatch Important? Teachable? Capabilities 1 (low) - 5 (high) 1 (low) - 5 (high) Knowledge Academic/Professional Discipline Business or academic disciplines Industry/Function/Process Technical Problem Solving Fixed Skills Demonstrated aptitudes Communication and practices, both “hard” and “soft” Planning/Organization Flexible Collaboration/Teamwork Self-Management/Autonomy Values & Mindset Attitudes that people Initiative bring to jobs and jobs need in people Motivation to Learn Service Orientation Personality & Intelligence Analytical Basic character and mental traits Capacity to Learn Benefits: Teachable Fit is among the most popular methods that successful employers use to address talent shortages. About one out of every eight employers that successfully overcame talent shortages used this method, according to the ManpowerGroup 2012 Talent Shortage Survey. The method allows employers to greatly expand the pool of possible candidates for a position. By recruiting for certain skills that are hard to train and training skills that are easy to learn, employers are investing in highly valuable individuals and turning them into loyal employees. 10 | Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
  • 11. Specialized Solution: Strategic Migration The concept is simple: If there aren’t enough available skilled workers in your area, look to other geographical regions or even other countries for the employees you need and bring them to you. With a lack of international certifications for many trades and immigration laws to contend with, not to mention the real-world difficulties in moving people from place to place, even within national borders, the execution is a bit more complicated. While many jobs today, especially in technology and customer service, can be offshored, there are many more yet that cannot be performed remotely—construction, healthcare and foodservice jobs, for instance. Shipbuilding positions must be filled locally. According to a recent ManpowerGroup paper (Strategic Migration—A Short-Term Solution to the Skilled Trades Shortage, August 2010), U.S. shipbuilding companies have strategically migrated talent to fill a need for skilled workers. Erie Shipbuilding LLC in Ohio secured H2B visas for workers from Mexico and Croatia, after proving that they could not hire the required talent locally. Benefits: When there is a local need for skilled labor and a glut of talent elsewhere, it can be a good solution for both the employer and worker to migrate that talent to where it is valued most. United Canada Kingdom Ireland Germany Belgium Bulgaria United States Spain Italy China Japan Greece India Brazil Australia | 11
  • 12. Specialized Solution: Flexible Working Flexible working has become an increasingly popular employment strategy for leading employers as the world comes out of recession. Figure 7 How your company’s workforce will change over the next 5 years ManpowerGroup Navigating the Human Age More part-time, temporary, or contract workers 57.8% More telecommuting 25.5% More offshore or outsourced workers 21.5% More older workers (aged 55+) 19.9% Don’t know 16.8% Other types of changes to the nature of work 2.9% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Source: McKinsey Global Institute US Jobs Survey, 2011; McKinsey Global Institute Analysis By the end of 2010, those working in the U.S. contingent worker industry accounted for 1.69% of the U.S. workforce, up from 1.47% in January 2010, the largest annual increase ever, according to a report from Staffing Industry Analysts, a research and advisory firm focused on staffing and contingent labor. The number of workers dedicated to this industry is often used as a proxy for how popular flexible working is among employers. The number continues to rise. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1.88% of U.S. workers were working in the industry as of April 2012. Instead of hiring full-time employees to tackle short-term technology, legal or accounting projects, many firms are hiring contingent workers who are highly skilled in those areas. The advantages are clear: 1. Quick ramp-ups without the hangover: Hire a large number of workers for a short-term project without having to invest long-term in the costs of maintaining a large workforce. 12 | Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
  • 13. 2. Affording high-end talent: Bringing on CFO-level most employers is getting the most out of a skilled talent for an accounting system migration is too workforce by removing and outsourcing the menial costly for most firms. Hiring such talent out of a tasks those workers inevitably perform as part of their staffing firm for three months is more within reach. daily duties so that they can focus on the specialized tasks for which they are highly paid. A good example 3. Try out workers as business conditions change. would be a consulting firm hiring administrative In a recovery, sometimes a company wants to assistants to file expenses, organize calendars grow but doesn’t know by how much. Hiring and perform other menial office tasks so that the flexible staffers enables companies to try out consultants themselves can focus exclusively on workers while anticipating growth and to keep acquiring and servicing clients. the best ones as needed. The other method of hyperspecialization that can work As XL Health, a Medicare insurance plan vendor for employers is changing the way they look at the launched in 1997, has continued to expand, its work that needs to be accomplished and dividing it into staffing needs have become less certain. So, ever-smaller tasks that can be performed by an army the company has embraced a strategy of hiring of incredibly specialized workers. This works especially pharmacists from staffing firms on a short-term basis well for software development projects, for instance. with the intention of hiring them full-time if there is a good fit. How many hired depends on how the A company might need to build a series of websites business is doing. In the past several years, the to market and sell their goods to consumers. Each company has brought in about 530 temps and has website will require a content management system, hired about 164 of them. an e-commerce engine, a database, a user-interface and aesthetic design, among other things. Instead of Benefits: Flexible staffing strategies give small hiring one or two developers to plan out the project, companies the ability to hire big-company talent and design the website, the interface, the database and big companies the ability to be nimble. so on, the company could farm out the project to an organization like TopCoder, a software development community where participants compete for very small Specialized Solution: parts of development projects. Hyperspecialization According to a recent article in Harvard Business Coders specialized in building databases would Review, the work of the future will be broken up into compete to build the best and cheapest database for smaller and smaller bits until it is being performed the company. So, too, with the e-commerce engine, optimally by workers specially trained to tackle and so on. Members of the development community each of those bits many times more efficiently than would compete to manage the project and to sew non-specialized workers who take on larger, more the different pieces of it together. The end result, if complicated tasks (The Age of Hyperspecialization, managed properly, is a website that is cheaper, better July-August 2011). and less time-consuming to make. There are two ways that hyperspecialization works Benefits: Hyperspecialization can save companies for employers. The first and more practical for money, freeing their workers to focus on what they’re | 13
  • 14. best at, resulting in improved final products. By hiring 93% of U.S. women who take a career break want to labor that’s relatively easy to find and inexpensive to return to full-time work, but only 74% do so. pay, employers can get the most out of their hard- Another untapped talent market is youth. Youth to-find, expensive workers. Breaking up work into around the world often have more trouble than other smaller bits can turn one or two risky, expensive hires age groups in finding work because they lack skills into many low-risk, highly specialized workers who and experience. And, in economic downturns, youth produce better work faster and cheaper. are often the first to be laid off. During recoveries, they are among the last to be hired. Specialized Solution: Exploring Youth unemployment rates around the world Untapped Talent Markets are typically two-to-four times higher than adult unemployment rates. Younger people, even those Many employers that have trouble finding the right with college degrees, often have trouble finding work talent might be surprised to learn that there are two compared to those who have been in the workforce vast and largely untapped talent markets that are longer because of a lack of experience or training. When undoubtedly all around them regardless of where they economies go bad, youth are often the first to lose their are located: women and youth. jobs and often the last to benefit from a recovery. Even in Northern European countries, where While younger workers may not have the hard skills workforce participation by women is at its highest, and experience of older workers, they do have—as men outnumber women in the workforce. According do all workers—valuable and hard-to-teach values to a 2008 report from the Organisation for Economic and attitudes related to work. Companies that wish to Cooperation and Development (OECD), just over 80% tap into this market can do so by supporting career of women participated in the workforce in Iceland guidance programs for youth still in school and by compared with nearly 90% of men; Iceland is the supporting projects that provide career guidance and country where the ratio most favors women. On the labor market information for young job seekers. other end of the spectrum is Turkey, where one in four women participates in the workforce versus about Bringing more youth into a company can also help it two-thirds of men. innovate and stay ahead of its competition. Some of the most innovative companies in the world (Google While there are cultural barriers in many countries and Facebook, for instance) have workforces with low to women taking certain jobs in the workforce, the average ages. main barrier to entry for women is inflexible work environments. Many women are the sole caretakers Benefits: Making a workforce more flexible to be of their children and cannot be in an office during more inclusive to women workers can give companies certain hours of the day. Companies around the world a significant advantage over competitors in courting have adapted to this need by offering flexible hours half of the labor pool. Developing a pipeline of and telecommuting options. A lack of flexibility in the inexpensive and energetic young labor can provide workplace often prevents women who leave work a company with the talent it needs at a cost it can temporarily, usually to have children, from returning. afford. It can also have the added benefit of injecting According to a 2007 report from the World Bank, innovation into company culture. 14 | Break the Crisis and Complacency Cycle
  • 15. Specialized Solution: Expanding a backwards-looking document—employers should look at the employability profile of job candidates, a Tapped Talent Markets document that scopes out future performance. While Sometimes the best talent is right where you least a resume focuses on past experience, titles and expect to find it. As talent markets tighten around educational certificates, a job success profile focuses on the world, one promising solution for employers is to skills and core competencies. change the way they think about work and workers. A resume without a degree in chemical engineering Most employers use conventional job descriptions to might disqualify a candidate for a job with a fill positions. While job descriptions adequately explain description that requires one, further shrinking the responsibilities and requirements, they fall short when possible pool of talent to fill that position. However, it comes to truly scoping out the desired outcomes an employability profile for the same candidate for a position and the core competencies required to who demonstrates scientific acumen through past deliver those outcomes. experience in a biology research lab liaising with company management might fit a job success profile Leading employers are using job success profiles for a chemical engineer. In fact, once a job success instead of job descriptions. Job success profiles profile is created, it might be discovered that an describe the role within the company and the industry ability to communicate with multiple layers of an as well as how to do it, considering all layers of the organization is as important to success as (or even job. Job success profiles answer the questions: What more important than) chemical engineering acumen; does success look like in the role? How does it relate and managing up and down an organization isn’t to others within and outside the company? How will something you can have a degree in. this role fit into the larger success of the company? Benefits: At a time when the right talent is in short Effectively utilizing job success profiles also requires that supply, having the ability to take a second look at workers are viewed differently. Rather than assessing candidates once thought unsuitable can greatly skills and competency using a resume—essentially enlarge the pool of possible talent. Redefine The New Normal As the worldwide talent shortage deepens and evolves into a long-term crisis, too many employers have accepted unfilled positions and lost productivity as a new normal. Companies that succeed in the Human Age will closely align comprehensive workforce and business strategies. A successful workforce strategy will identify and solve current talent acquisition challenges, anticipate future issues and implement necessary solutions. Once there is a workforce strategy in place, human resource leaders should consider employing various specialized solutions—including hiring workers who are a Teachable Fit, strategically migrating talent, employing flexible workers, hyperspecializing work, recruiting within untapped pools of talent like women and youth and expanding tapped talent markets—to find the best workers. Employers not worried about the effect of unfilled positions on their bottomline are putting themselves at a serious disadvantage to those that realize that in the Human Age, talent sets companies apart. | 15
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