By Julie Kuepers (Senior Digital Content Strategist at Click Boarding)
No? Well, Click Boarding coined the term and concept of the Valley of Uncertainty. It’s our analogy of the gap that exists between Talent Acquisition and Talent Management. Sounds like a scary place to be, right? The Valley of Uncertainty is where your newly hired candidates fall off the bandwagon… when they’re most at risk.
I am somewhat disappointed by the latest figures showing how many businesses have failed to carry out Brexit Risk Assessments and even more disappointed at the number that have not undertaken any planning in order to prepare for a future after the UK has left the EU.
There is a famous quote that states, “The only thing you can control in life is your reaction.” For talent acquisition leaders constantly facing the challenge of hiring volatility, these words ring very true.
In today's current environment, uncertainty is the only thing that is certain for us and we have no road map of how to deal with it...
So how can businesses and people survive this dramatic time of uncertainty, change and upheaval?
The Business Transformation Network recently hosted an event on ‘Taking the ‘Un’ Out of ‘Uncertainty’: How Talent Acquisition Can Thrive in a World of Change’ in partnership with Sevenstep. Sevenstep is a global leader in recruitment outsourcing annually ranked as a top enterprise RPO provider who persistently defy industry conventions to provide clients with talent acquisition wins and business performance gains.
The conversation was varied, touching on a wide variety of points around the following points: