Digital Talent: Find, Recruit and Retain the People your Business Needs in a World of Digital Transformation

by Matt Alder, Mervyn Dinnen

Overview

In a disrupted and technology-enabled world of work, HR professionals' ability to attract, recruit and retain people with digital skills can be the difference between business success and failure.

Digital Talent equips HR with the tools they need to assess what these critical skills are, how to attract the people who have them, keep these people engaged, productive and performing to the best of their abilities. It also provides crucial guidance on how to continuously develop employees, including leaders, to ensure that the organization has the skills it needs both for today and the future.

This book provides advice on how to create new processes that are fit for purpose in the age of digital transformation, build inclusion when digital culture is becoming more prominent and use digital abilities effectively to maximise productivity while maintaining employee wellbeing. Digital Talent is the book on talent that HR , talent acquisition professionals and business leaders need to make sure that their people, and the business as a whole, stay ahead of the competition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749490959
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	03/29/2022
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.18(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Matt Alder is a strategic consultant based in Edinburgh, UK. He focuses on innovation and technology in HR and Talent Acquisition. He is the host of Recruiting Future, one of the world's most popular talent acquisition podcasts and over the last 20 years has built a reputation as a global thought leader, working with employers to optimize their digital strategies.

Mervyn Dinnen is a researcher, writer, analyst and influencer on HR, Talent and WorkTech trends based in London, UK. He was recognized as a Top 100 Global Influencer in HR Technology in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and has also been identified as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Talent & HR Professionals in the UK for 2022.

Table of Contents

** Chapter - 00: Introduction; ** Chapter - 01: Digital skills for a digital transformation; ** Chapter - 02: Talent acquisition; ** Chapter - 03: The digital talent experience; ** Chapter - 04: New thinking around talent management; ** Chapter - 05: Leadership in the digital age; ** Chapter - 06: Diversity and inclusion; ** Chapter - 07: Work Tech; ** Chapter - 08: The new future of work; ** Chapter - 09: Conclusion;

Editorial Reviews

"Yet another barnstorming book from Mervyn and Matt this time about digital talent. The book is a blend of insight, good ideas and practical solutions to a challenge most organizations are struggling with: how do we attract, hire and retain the digital capability we need to be successful? This really is a must-read for all those dealing with this business critical issue."

Kevin Green

"In a year that combined a continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic and a reset of the employee experience dubbed 'The Great Resignation' this book is an in-depth analysis of how the world of talent acquisition has to adapt at pace to attract, engage and retain digital talent. Meticulously researched with real life case studies, this book is a must-read for every HR leader tasked with transforming their organization's talent offering."

Charu Malhotra

"Digital Talent covers an incredible range of areas in a consistently accessible and rich way. Any organization or practitioner interested in navigating through the fog of hype around the implications of an ever-increasing digital focus will find this book invaluable, both as a gateway and a guide. Whether it is busting myths about millennials or looking at the changing nature of the functions driving progress, there is a wealth smartly positioned thinking and provocation in its pages."

David D’Souza

"This book is a gem - summarizing a wide range of data into a highly readable and useful book. Matt & Mervyn have provided the HR and talent acquisition profession with an outstanding overview of the challenges and opportunities that define this century as well as insight into how to adapt. Highly recommended."

Kevin Wheeler

"I am absolutely delighted that our Institute's research has helped with the research for Digital Talent. There has never been a more important time for modern leaders to embrace digital transformation and people centric technology in connecting their people to purpose, to accomplishment and to one another."

Robert Ordever

"Digital Talent makes a well-researched and eloquent case for businesses to radically change their thinking around talent acquisition, performance enablement and leadership. It covers all aspects of the talent journey and creates a compelling vision for the transformation of the future workplace. This book is an urgent wake-up call for HR and business leaders everywhere."

Lucinda Carney

"Few in the staffing industry have the experience, access and authority to be able to write a book like this. Digital Talent covers topical urgencies like diversity & inclusion, digital leadership, shift to remote, evolution of HR technology and the changing relationship we have with work. We are fortunate that Mervyn Dinnen and Matt Alder - two veterans of the industry who each independently have forged unique paths as analysts and commentators - can collaborate so successfully in pulling together the trends which are shaping the world of work today. An essential read."

Hung Lee