War for new skills in Print and Packaging
I have been reading a lot of articles lately about the war for talent, and wondered if it is just hype or a real issue.
As our industry evolves do we truly have the best talent to drive this continuous change forward to meet the demands of tomorrows consumer. I am starting to see a lot more IT driven vacancies to help organisations manage their customer's complete business processing outsourcing (BPO) solutions more efficiently in order to increase margins. TPF Group have recently hired Paul Seaborn as Group IT Director to drive their depth of client relations. He is going to need a team around him with the relevant skills and this is where the war for talent comes into play.
It has been reported that the IT industry have seen salaries increase by up to 38% in the last 18 months in order to capture the best available talent, this is frightening, but a reality. As our industry evolves and we are not bringing the apprentices through the system or offering formal training schemes, this will surely intensify the need to bring the skills in from other industries.
As the war for talent takes a stronghold, we need to be more innovative in our recruitment campaigns. I recently read about a Managing Director who hosts events about working in his organisation, not just attending interviews to make sure HR hire the right people. This innovative approach was recently undertaken by GE to attract overseas Engineers to their business, they signed up 75 new engineers in a 3 day event as these engineers bought into the vision of GE.
Reading all these articles makes me think this problem is real and growing!
For our part, oZZle has formed several partnerships with more generic human resourcing sites to attract these new skills for our customers. We understand that the skills needed already exist in other industry sectors, our challenge is to attract them to the Print and Packaging industry. In conjunction with this we are launching a referral rewards scheme to capture the wider passive workplace audience for you.
The bottom line is, print is no longer just about ink on paper it's about a total communications solution.
As our industry evolves do we truly have the best talent to drive this continuous change forward to meet the demands of tomorrows consumer. I am starting to see a lot more IT driven vacancies to help organisations manage their customer's complete business processing outsourcing (BPO) solutions more efficiently in order to increase margins. TPF Group have recently hired Paul Seaborn as Group IT Director to drive their depth of client relations. He is going to need a team around him with the relevant skills and this is where the war for talent comes into play.
It has been reported that the IT industry have seen salaries increase by up to 38% in the last 18 months in order to capture the best available talent, this is frightening, but a reality. As our industry evolves and we are not bringing the apprentices through the system or offering formal training schemes, this will surely intensify the need to bring the skills in from other industries.
As the war for talent takes a stronghold, we need to be more innovative in our recruitment campaigns. I recently read about a Managing Director who hosts events about working in his organisation, not just attending interviews to make sure HR hire the right people. This innovative approach was recently undertaken by GE to attract overseas Engineers to their business, they signed up 75 new engineers in a 3 day event as these engineers bought into the vision of GE.
Reading all these articles makes me think this problem is real and growing!
For our part, oZZle has formed several partnerships with more generic human resourcing sites to attract these new skills for our customers. We understand that the skills needed already exist in other industry sectors, our challenge is to attract them to the Print and Packaging industry. In conjunction with this we are launching a referral rewards scheme to capture the wider passive workplace audience for you.
The bottom line is, print is no longer just about ink on paper it's about a total communications solution.
posted by Heidi Whitelock @ 08:54
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