Category Archives: Talent Management

by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village In a recent interview for “EdSurge” Sean Gallagher, Ed.D. (1) discusses the rapidly changing field of graduate education. The offer is booming and increasingly diversified, he says. Degrees now come in all shapes and sizes. There has been a lot of innovation in credentialing, with new …

“US survey of 750 HR leaders indicates shift towards skills- and competency-based hiring”

by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village A joint report by the OECD and the UK-based charity “Education and Employers” was presented in Davos at the World Economic Forum 2019 on January the 23rd. The report is inspired by a survey of 20,000 primary school children called “Drawing your future”, organised by …

“Addressing the mismatch between children’s job aspirations and the labour market demand”

  by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Just out: the World Economic Forum’s “The future of jobs” 2018 edition. The report foresees major disruptions to labour markets, but says demand for new roles will offset the decreasing demand for others, with “net job gains” estimated at 58M. Their analysis suggests that …

“Jobs for the future: automation versus augmentation”

by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village Bias and discrimination are “creeping” more and more into day-to-day (automated) decisions on access to jobs, credit, parole and many more areas. In a recent talk at EmTech Digital, Tess Posner, Executive Director at AI4ALL, says that AI systems are only as fair and ethical …

“Including diversity in AI can help to minimise bias and also makes good business sense”

Several competitions between the latest generation of machine translation (MT) systems and panels of experienced human translators have been staged and made it into the news. This may have some entertainment value and, for now, bring old school translators some respite but, in my view, it misses the point entirely. Blog titles along the lines …

“Why it’s High Time to Prepare Skills Sets and Role Models for Man-Machine Translation (MMT)”