Talent Voodoo: Three top hiring trends

Have you heard of the term VUCA? (pronounced voo – ka).  It is a great ex-military inspired acronym that sounds like a form of witchcraft when you say it out loud!

VUCA describes the unpredictable and chaotic business, economic, and environmental upheavals that we are experiencing not just in the UK, but globally.  But what does VUCA stand for?

Major firms like GE have already begun to plan for this new turbulent VUCA world in the area of talent management and recruiting.  Now may be time to begin shifting your approach, so that you can successfully handle this permanent state of volatility and turbulence.When you cast the net looking for fresh talent to join your organisation (or think about the people you've already got), how do you find and assess them?  To future proof  your talent pipeline, here are 3 recruitment strategies  industry business leaders have recently adopted:

• The extensive use of social tools like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to find talent. Revenue numbers released on 7 February 2013 show LinkedIn brought in more total revenue for the year than did Monster and its fourth-quarter recruitment revenue alone was 90% above the same quarter in 2011.
• The building of in-house Executive Search capability – the likes of Microsoft are snapping up headhunters to work for them in-house.  The potential savings in search fees and the ability to be pro-active in the search for top talent makes an internal approach look very attractive in most cases.
• The use of psychological assessment tools such as LAB Profile to uncover much more about a candidate's ability to respond to stress and deal with change than the traditional skills and competencies approach. Skills need to be learned and have a long lead time, whereas motivations are innate and predict  how a candidate is likely to perform at work.

To your talent management success in a VUCA world!