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Reading Time: 8 minutes Habitamos en la tormenta perfecta del mundo del trabajo, impactado por cuatro grandes certezas que nos hacen cuestionar los seguros cimientos de la productividad laboral. Transformación digital La primera es que vivimos inmersos dentro de una transformación digital, que aunque ya venía de antes, la pandemia la impactó sin orden ni concierto. Es necesaria una […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes We live in a world with threats of an economic downturn around the corner. Meanwhile, technological advancements are gaining pace; artificial intelligence, full automation, and a new generation of high-speed connectivity are set to transform the way we work. Nay-sayers of these technologies say they’ll replace workers, but the reality is quite the contrary. Many […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes When it comes to recruitment, the stakes are higher than ever. Over the past ten years, hiring top talent has become a crucial aspect of strategy and R&D. According to a study published this year, 6,000 executives agreed that smart, technologically literate personnel will be the most important corporate resource over the coming decades. But […]

Reading Time: 8 minutes The status of building business capabilities  When it comes to building long-term business resiliency, understanding and defining business capabilities is a core component of the conversation. Business capabilities refer to developing skills, knowledge, and processes necessary to enact change to perform and maximize an organization’s core functionalities.  Some examples of common focus areas for business […]

Reading Time: 7 minutes Digital is shaping the global marketplace. The evolution of technology is only getting faster; where once people marvelled at the humble fax machine, now, consumers expect high-clarity calling and 4K content streaming wherever they are. Meanwhile, businesses transfer terabytes of data every minute via highly secure fibre network connections. This is even more so the […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes The contemporary job market is more tech-driven than ever – and subsequently, more competitive. Currently, the demand for hard skills in the digital space is outstripping supply. According to a recent study conducted by McKinsey, 70% of European executives believe they’ll have to retrain or replace more than a quarter of their workforce within five […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes There’s no doubt about it – digital is transforming the way we do business. Every day, new disruptive technologies emerge that heighten consumer expectations and intensify competition. Talent is crucial to keeping pace with this frenetic market, and subsequently, companies’ sourcing strategy needs to reflect the business environment. As such, the gig economy is proving […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes What is talent mapping? Talent mapping is an analytical framework that companies use to assess their recruitment needs. It can be used to decide when, how and why to recruit at a given moment in a business’s future. Talent mapping outlines an individual’s capabilities and combines them with gaps in a recruiter’s needs. It is […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes While there’s no doubt that the world today has been completely overturned by digital technologies in many respects, this is not true for many industries.The “digital talent shortage” or “gap” is still a reality: many industries are in need of digitally-savvy professionals, but this demand has outgrown their availability. Thus, digital talent today is a […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes Business and recruitment experts frequently discuss the concept of hard and soft skills, yet they rarely nail down their definition. In brief, hard skills are quantifiable abilities or technical skills appropriate to the position. For instance, a developer’s hard skills are programming languages and data structures. Generally, people can acquire these skills in classroom environments. […]