Get closer to in-house learning to broaden talent pools, says Lumesse director
6 September 2012
Recruitment agencies should work closely with in-house learning teams in order to open up new talent pools in the hunt to fill a role, according to Jeremy Langley, marketing & business development director at talent management and acquisition software firm Lumesse.
Thu, 6 Sep 2012
Recruitment agencies should work closely with in-house learning teams in order to open up new talent pools in the hunt to fill a role, according to Jeremy Langley, marketing & business development director at talent management and acquisition software firm Lumesse.
Langley was commenting on the results of a Lumesse survey of 769 HR leaders worldwide which showed that only 10% of employees see HR as an ‘extremely useful partner’ for skills development, generally seeing colleagues as a more valuable resource for learning new skills.The survey serves as “a challenge for the recruiting agency to have much more of a dialogue with the learning team around what skills need to be developed post-hire,” Langley tells Recruiter. He suggests that when a recruiting operation becomes better aware of which skills are less vital at hiring stage, “that potentially opens up three or four new talent pools”.
Whether it is consciously or subconsciously, “a lot of recruitment decisions are made on the basis of what skills you are able to bring in as opposed to what you are able to develop”, he adds.
Langley also says: “A core competence that recruiters should be looking for is that ability to learn.”
Lumesse has seen particular demand for its learning solutions in financial services and legal organisations, and indeed in any industry that is “fast-moving… where the environment is changing extremely quickly”, he explains to Recruiter.
This comes the same week as a survey from financial services recruiter Robert Half UK found that many UK financial services executives are spending the equivlane of one day a week dealing with changing global and local regulatory requirements.
Langley was speaking as Lumesse today launches Learning Gateway 6.0, a cloud-based learning management system which enables HR professionals to design, customise, publish and deploy their own courses based on business requirements.
Recruitment agencies should work closely with in-house learning teams in order to open up new talent pools in the hunt to fill a role, according to Jeremy Langley, marketing & business development director at talent management and acquisition software firm Lumesse.
Langley was commenting on the results of a Lumesse survey of 769 HR leaders worldwide which showed that only 10% of employees see HR as an ‘extremely useful partner’ for skills development, generally seeing colleagues as a more valuable resource for learning new skills.The survey serves as “a challenge for the recruiting agency to have much more of a dialogue with the learning team around what skills need to be developed post-hire,” Langley tells Recruiter. He suggests that when a recruiting operation becomes better aware of which skills are less vital at hiring stage, “that potentially opens up three or four new talent pools”.
Whether it is consciously or subconsciously, “a lot of recruitment decisions are made on the basis of what skills you are able to bring in as opposed to what you are able to develop”, he adds.
Langley also says: “A core competence that recruiters should be looking for is that ability to learn.”
Lumesse has seen particular demand for its learning solutions in financial services and legal organisations, and indeed in any industry that is “fast-moving… where the environment is changing extremely quickly”, he explains to Recruiter.
This comes the same week as a survey from financial services recruiter Robert Half UK found that many UK financial services executives are spending the equivlane of one day a week dealing with changing global and local regulatory requirements.
Langley was speaking as Lumesse today launches Learning Gateway 6.0, a cloud-based learning management system which enables HR professionals to design, customise, publish and deploy their own courses based on business requirements.
