Digital skills fall short

Australia is facing a major digital skills-shortage. A new study suggests Australian employers are under-investing in the skills development of current employees, as well as struggling to find new digital talent. With the growing importance of digital in today’s...

Off Balance. On Integration.

WORK life integration. Instead of trying to balance the two separate spheres in our lives, our professional and personal lives are now deeply personal and inextricably linked – and we want to see value in all we do. Organisations aware of this can focus on creating a...

Quizzed about digital

Earlier this year we addressed the increasing concern that a “digital talent gap” existed between the digital expertise needed by companies and the digital talent available. Findings in a US survey of 750 Fortune 500 and ad agency execs, The State of...

Playing for keeps

Think back to your last recruitment project. It probably involved telephone screening, interviewing face-to-face and some form of psychometric testing. But I bet you didn’t consider inviting your candidates to compete in a World of Warcraft like simulation? No...

Bridging the digital talent gap

In Digital we are nail-bitingly aware of an increasing labour-hire shortage in Australia. Yet, at a time when university graduates are fiercely competing to secure their first jobs, a wide discrepancy exists between the digital expertise needed by companies and the...