The Same Job The Rest Of Your Life?

jason.averbook — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:35:35 GMT

Knowledge Infusion had the opportunity to take part in many activities at Oracle OpenWorld 2007 this year including a panel that I was on today moderated by Row Henson. I have to commend Oracle on a conference well done and the panel that I was part of on the future of the workforce got some great reviews from the audience.

As Josh Bersin from Bersin & Associates and Lisa Rowen from IDC and myself spoke, many questions came up around the workforce, how education is effecting kids entering the workforce these days and how technology might play a role.

A few highlights:

Josh Bersin made some great comments surrounding recruiting techniques organizations are using around hiring family members; parents bringing their kids to work and visa versa
Lisa Rowen reminded us that the first Baby Boomer turned 62 this year and chose to collect Social Security - hmm.. I thought the workforce was working longer? What are you doing to keep them?
I talked about one of the Knowledge Infusion initiatives next year around the formulation of a foundation to help high school students understand the value that technology and specifically the impact that by understanding the world of business while in high school they can be prepared 1000x better to enter the workforce. Stay tuned for much more about this Knowledge Infusion foundation in 2008.

The conversation was great and I appreciate Oracle inviting Knowledge Infusion to participate and thank my fellow panelists for a great event.

I had the opportunity to take my son to his first movie last week, The Bee Movie. The whole panel reminded me of this video clip and thought I would share it. Has anyone in your life had the same job their whole life? Is it still possible? Let me know.

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Here is the video clip

Our Working Future

jason.averbook — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:27:14 GMT

Knowledge Infusion continually works with enterprise clients and vendors to ensure that their long-term HR, Human Capital Management and Talent Management strategies align to that of the workforce of the future.

A great interview with Malcolm Gladwell is linked to below. A few highlights:

"It's going to come from creating a more thoughtful work force and giving people the opportunity to be thoughtful."
We know with absolute certainty that the cognitive demands of the
workplace will be greater, not less; we know that Western industrial
nations are unlikely to be regaining manufacturing jobs.
We will require, from a larger and larger percentage of our work force,
                the ability to engage in relatively complicated analytical and
                cognitive tasks. So it's not that we're going to need more geniuses,
                but the 50th percentile is going to have to be better educated than
                they are now.
Trying to find a qualified person is going to be tougher in the next 10
years for most sophisticated businesses than it has ever been. This is
not a problem that's going away, it's one that's going to get worse.
The competitiveness of any organization is so dependent on the quality
                of the work force, and it would be so much easier for us to improve
                public education if corporations publicly and loudly lined up behind
                the public school system.

This is a great interview with Gladwell. Be sure to take a read and understand that each of his points tie back to key themes in an overall HR and HR technology strategy.

Another infusion of knowledge...

Link to article

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The Same Job The Rest Of Your Life?

Our Working Future