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Win the Race for Talent – Talent Management magazine

Chart Your Course

Internationally, in 2012 the World Economic Forum reported 10 million jobs were unfilled in the manufacturing sector alone.The world’s three largest workforces — the United States, India and China — all have chronic and growing talent shortages, particularly in science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related STEM occupations.

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Why Your Employees Should Be Playing With Lego Robots

Harvard Business Review

Two years ago, Swedish communications technology giant Ericsson found itself looking for a way to explain the value it saw in the Internet of Things. Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

As Marco Annunziata , Chief Economist at GE, told me, “We’re no longer selling customers just a jet engine, a locomotive, or a wind turbine; we’re bringing data and actionable solutions along with the hardware to reduce costs and improve performance.” By June of 2012 we were close to 100.

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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. In multinational businesses, human resource management tools such as expatriate assignments or international job rotations can help build opportunity recognition skills.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

The geofilters combined amusing visuals and messages with the web address of Snapchat’s job page, all in the hope that a Twitter engineer taking a quick Snapchat break might come across the targeted “Fly Higher!” ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change. 1 form of self-expression.”

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Employers Aren’t Just Whining – the “Skills Gap” Is Real

Harvard Business Review

Every year, the Manpower Group, a human resources consultancy, conducts a worldwide “Talent Shortage Survey.” The issue is confusing because the skills required to work with new technologies are hard to measure. Nevertheless, employers still have real difficulties hiring workers with the skills to deal with new technologies.

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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

Branch 2: Environmental, safety, IT systems design and computer software, training for computers and technology, architecture, engineering and legal. Human resource administration, employee testing, behavioral research, executive search, talent pools, reorganizations, downsizing, executive outplacement, labor issues and negotiating.

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