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Curiosity. An up-and-coming skill and key to career success
What new skills can improve your future job prospects?
Experts increasingly talk about the bright future of “hybrid professionals”, i.e. those with a combination of IT and humanist knowledge and outlooks. Individuals and teams that create effective synergies between the digital and traditional worlds and more able to make a contribution today and tomorrow.
The ability to learn quickly and look ahead, have a digital outlook, manage ambiguity, analyse data and be an inspiring storyteller are all skills in which curiosity is a mainstay: an “emerging skill” in today’s digital world brimming with data, uncertainty and face-paced change.
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Published in Observatorio de RH (The HR Observatory) – July 2016 Origins of coworking and its rapid evolution Founded in Berlin in 1995, C-base was one of the world’s first hacklabs: a community-operated workspace for people actively interested in science, new technologies and the digital world, providing a scenario for
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The Labour Market: Are you prepared for the tsunami?
There is a broad consensus among economic and HR experts as to the profound social and business transformation we are currently experiencing. Some initial data strike me as interesting and as an incentive for us to reflect upon and put into practice. One of the conclusions from the Davos Forum’s
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#ConnectingTalent: a new trend in people management for the VUCA world
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In recent years we have detected a growing problem of low employee engagement in many companies, regardless of sector, size or ownership structure. According to Gallup, the consulting company with most experience in the subject, only 13% of employees around the world are clearly engaged (http://ow.ly/Ti64I), as reflected in the tables
