Special Guest: Ira Wolfe
 
  An accomplished speaker and author of Recruiting in the Age of Googlization, Ira has been a leader in pre-hire and leadership assessments, recruitment marketing, and workforce trends for 25 years. He puts forth the passion and mindset required for the convergence between people and technology. Today he joins the podcast to talk about how staffing and hiring have changed in the advent of the internet, social media, and the pandemic.

• How has the pandemic changed the landscaping of the job market and recruiting
• Changes to the job market are causing the skills shortage to go away
• New Era of dealing with the Digitalization and Automation of work and working from home
• Skills Shortages - there is not going to be as much of a need for hard skills shortages with the baby boomers retiring that we initial though
• Understanding working remote, digital knowledge, and practices are becoming much more critical.
• Organic growth of employees now is more important than ever before especially given the lull we have in the economy to allow us to catch up
• Advances in Artificial Intelligence and 3D are technical skills are becoming a need but a need that people are already gravitating toward
• Soft Skills - The realization of needing to teach people more human in a modern world of automation - which includes empathy, compassion, and continuous learning
•  Continuing education during down-times is critical to follow the trends - learn new skills, especially those that are growing
• Many organizations and online platforms are offering free skills training
• Once you get a certification or training on a high demand skill, now what
• Starting in a company in a lower-level role that will leverage you to the skill/position is more likely to happen
• Businesses are horrible in identifying what is essential, so their criteria often are unrealistic
• Companies even go so far as defining the type of personality they think they need
• What is Googlization 
• How Googling things teaches us, but also can make us stupid
• Google has replaced the need for us to master or know things
• Look at the job you are in and understand the future of that industry

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  Ira S Wolfe
  Success Performance Solutions
  President and Chief Googlization Officer
  http://www.super-solutions.com 
  https://www.irawolfe.com/
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