HR Podcast

This week’s guest on The Open Talent Report is Jeff Nugent, Global Contingent Workforce Management Strategist.

During this conversation Connor and Jeff discuss:

• Jeff Nugent story
• What problems or challenges Jeff is solving
• Labour Market Paradox – How to resolve it
• Tools for winning the war on talent and helping organisations cope with talent scarcity
• The Evolution of Staffing
• Talent Market Places, do they have a role to play in the War for Talent
• Automation and Jobs Displacement
• HR Tech – Bubble or not?
• What is in store for the Future of Work

This week’s guest on The Open Talent Report is Joseph Williams, CEO and Co-founder of Clu, the inclusive recruitment platform.

During this conversation Connor and Joseph discuss:

• Joseph Williams story
• What problems or challenges is Clu solving
• Why does diversity matter?
• Why are people excluded when they are included?
• Tools for winning the war on talent and helping organisations cope with talent scarcity
• Talent Market Places, do they have a role to play in the War for Talent
• Automation and Jobs Displacement
• HR Tech- bubble or not
• What is in store for the Future of Work

Connect with Connor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrmconnorheaney/

Connect with Joseph: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdttwp/

Visit CXC: www.cxcglobal.com

Visit Clu: https://www.getaclu.io/

Labour shortage/ Labour market paradox:

There is always a paradox, there is always a balance between the supply and demand in the workforce and technology is simply giving us more data and a greater view of the mismatch making it seem like a bigger paradox than ever. 

Now that pandemic is hopefully lifting we are seeing a shift from where the demand side had previously had the power to more of a balance with the supply having more of a say. 

Companies should change their perspective when hiring. For example in the IT space, if you are looking for a Java developer companies should look at if they need somebody who already has that skill set or if they can look at training a person up as a Java developer. 

Is hiring anyone anywhere an area of growth?

In theory we can work remotely and cut jobs down into gigs so it is more concrete and easier to delegate a certain piece of work to somebody anywhere in the world. The issue comes with cooperation within companies which will slow down the adoption with global companies being able to adapt faster. 

Companies must also look at labour laws in different countries where they are engaging talent to ensure compliance.

The digitiziation of recruitment

There’s two types of companies now, which are merging into trying to solve for everything. There’s companies that come from more enterprise worlds, usually, they’re more touch than tech. They have a bit more people supporting the product, they are not only a tech platform. Then there’s companies that are more on the platform side like Upwork, maybe that’s more gig related more shorter term projects and more instant. Sometimes they are more, b2c but they miss the touch part, to really sell into large enterprise clients. So if we look at it from the client side, they don’t want only tech, they want a solution that encompass technology and a personal touch.

Automation

I think that there is a lot more to be concerned about in his world, a lot more about climate and about food and other trends, than automation threatening the labour market. On the contrary automation can be a big opportunity and these bigger trends might influence how we as humans need to act and resolve things. But as we said when we started out,  this labour market is so incredibly complex, and will need work everywhere, for a long period. So, this future where there’s no work, it’s very, very far out.

What would you do with a magic wand?

I think if I had a magic wand, I would want to have governments have a mindset of a more forward looking approach. They shouldn’t stick to the past of a unionised world and a job or a specific labour market condition that needs to stay forever. If I look at many governments and many labour markets, a lot of them are trying to contain the power and the contract of the past, instead of creating a contract of the future that is less frictionless and actually gets more people to an income or a job. So it’s all dependent on who has the power and then trying to protect what you have, instead I would appreciate if governments have a growth mindset.

We have a different episode for our listeners this week. At CXC, we have been running a Direct Sourcing webinar series that takes an in-depth look at direct sourcing as a talent sourcing solution.

Over the coming months we will be making these webinars available as podcast episodes. This week we have a webinar with expert guests Praneeth Patlola, Jan-Willem Weijers and Katie Bussey. Host Connor Heaney  explores what direct sourcing is, the common pitfalls and best practices with our guests.

Connect with Connor: www.linkedin.com/in/hrmconnorheaney/

Visit CXC: www.cxcglobal.com

See our upcoming events: https://www.cxcglobal.com/en-gb/insights-blog/events

On this weeks podcast, Connor is joined by Joel Walker, Co-Founder and  COO of The Knowledge Group (TKG). On the podcast Joel talks about his career in outsourcing that has led him to help found TKG. Connor and Joel have a lively discussion around remote working specifically in outsourced organisation like sales and contact centres as well as the future of outsourced labour.

Joel also discusses how TKG solve complex customer needs by harnessing machine learning and technology to match  client requirements with an expert partner network and a rapidly growing international marketplace.

Connect with Connor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrmconnorheaney/

Connect with Joel Walker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelwalker/

Visit CXC: www.cxcglobal.com

Visit The Knowledge Group: www.welovetoknow.com