Prepare For a Changing Workforce: Highlights from Rethinking Recruitment

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Rethinking hiring is no longer optional—it's essential. We dived deep into the challenges and opportunities shaping recruitment now and into the future.

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Key Takeaways:

Hiring for the company's future

Traditional recruitment methods are no longer enough as job requirements change rapidly.

It's time for an updated view of competence

Future job success lies in and individual's potential to grow and thrive with the organisation.

To bridge the competency gap, leaders must:

Increase accuracy in hiring decisions.
Enhance the candidate experience.
Aim for operational excellence.

Stockholm, October 19

Malcolm Burenstam Linder

CEO, Alva Labs

"We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. The key question is, what do we look for today?"

"In this new era, the old paradigm of hiring won't be sufficient and the companies that keep relying on the things that worked yesterday or fishing for the same kind of talent, in the same talent pool will likely miss out on that potential candidate."

Stockholm, October 19

Tomas Lindén

CHRO, Newsec Group

"We need to be better at finding the talent that has the ability to grow and to develop, and maybe even also willingness to develop and grow."

"You want to recruit for someone who then also should be able to grow in the company. You need to look for other things because you don't even know how the role will look like in the future. We need to be better at finding the talent that has the ability to grow and to develop, and maybe even also willingness to develop and grow and wanting to both maintain her or his domain expertise, but also having the ability to take on roles as roles change."

Stockholm, October 19

Sara Lindström

Director of Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding, Solita

"It's about seeing past what we usually view as talent again."

"Something can take quite a lot of time to really understand like, what are the skills and what is it that we actually are want to evaluate? It's about seeing past what we usually view as talent again. We are quite early on in this new transition with the AI and so on. I think that we will have to go more in that direction and hopefully in five years, we will move the blocker of that path that we are today."

Stockholm, October 19, 2023

Oslo, November 8, 2023

Malmö, November 16, 2023

Key take-away from Rethinking Recruitment event in Malmö

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