What Skills Do Recruiters Need In The Future of Work?
A few weeks ago I ran a survey on recruiting trends. I personally sent that survey to a handful of former clients to talk more about what they’re experiencing. While I would love for them to fill out forms, we know each other. I wanted to ask them follow up questions.?
One interesting trend I saw pretty quickly is that everyone is thinking about talent mobility and upskilling. How do you grow the people you have? How do you make them want to stay?
Looking back, the results behind investing in talent mobility and employee training have been consistent. I can find a million surveys that all agree: promoting from within and investing in education for the team you have makes people stay.??Ask ChatGPT for some examples if you want.
Here’s the twist.
Since COVID, teams have had much larger workloads. They haven’t had time to send people off for training or budgets to invest in upskilling. The consequence? There’s no talent mobility. When roles come open, people aren’t ready for the next level because they’ve been busy just trying to keep up with the work they have.??
That aside, I wonder what we would have trained people in anyway. I mean, there are some skills we may have trained people on even 2 years ago that seem pretty obsolete now. What’s worth training people on for a future of work that feels unknown???
My short list for anyone at any level working in HR, TA, or recruiting would probably include:?
What would you add?? ?
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3 天前Inquisitiveness, ability to tell a story, and have an early adoption mentality. Those that don't embrace change can be left behind.
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4 天前Ooh, interesting topic! Would love to hear what skills made your list for future-proofing.
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1 周Katrina - excellent question! I'd say: empathy, influence, critical thinking, communication, and storytelling. I agree with you regarding the need to upskill in prompting, and I'd argue that critical thinking and communication are the core skills that enable more effective prompting and the use of generative AI. I want to add curiosity, but it could be argued that it's a trait and not a skill, although I do think curiosity is something you can consciously build/foster. Curiosity is critical because it helps drive: -problem identification and solving -critical thinking -learning and learning agility -effective research (e.g. sourcing, talent intelligence, etc.) -creativity and innovation -more effective prompting ?? ...and I think, at least for now, curiosity is my answer to the question of, "what's left for humans?" in a world where AI has been shown to outperform most people when it comes to (demonstrating) empathy, creativity, persuasion, verbal reasoning, and more.
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1 周Strategy: How to see more opportunities for growth and success Vision: Seeing beyond and deeper within constraints Problem solving: Not all problems are solved with ATSs and ad budgets Communication: Why is it that recruiters, who LIVE on email, never listen to podcasts or subscribe to newsletters about writing better emails? Persuasion: Everyone should read Dr. Chialdini. Simple as that.