This Week in Talent (12 Nov)

This week we share an excellent list of resources to help us continue learning and supporting the voices of our First People, a comprehensive guide on how to conduct a job analysis, a podcast featuring the inimitable Bill Boorman discussing the rise of the “job brand” and how he sees internal mobility eventually going into TA, and more!

NAIDOC week resources

Great list of resources to help us continue learning and supporting the voices of our First People. Thank you Danielle Brodie for sharing!

How to conduct a job analysis

You may have been asked to do this more than once before, so this article is a great resource to help you refine your process further. It offers a great foundation for those who are just getting started too. Have a read.

Podcast: Finding connection in remote recruiting 

Excellent interview featuring the inimitable Bill Boorman on the current hiring trends, the rise of the “job brand”, the need for organisations to become an employer of choice, and how he sees internal mobility eventually going into Talent Acquisition. You should listen to this.

Our obsession with unconscious bias created a diversity disaster

Pretty sure by now we are all well acquainted by the term “unconscious bias”, some of us might even have been sent for training to disabuse us of our biases. But as this article goes to show unconscious bias training is not the silver bullet everybody thought it was, and it can cause more harm than good. Good read.

New technologies impacting the smart factory

“There’s currently an emphasis being placed on collaborative robots, or cobots, that work hand-in-hand with human workers toward a common goal.” This could reduce unproductivity by 85 percent according to an MIT study. Have a read if you are interested to find out more about the evolution of the automated workforce.

What is the Zollman effect?

Interesting article here showing the dark sides of communities. Sharing all our information with one another can make us less likely to reach the correct answer to a question we are all investigating because misleading results risk polluting the community with misinformation. Click to learn how we can become better at managing this.

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