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Sweden’s number one recruiter for communication, PR & marketing
This PM contains a summary from the network event „Communication, PR & marketing‟, held at Stockholm Academic Forum 25 May 2016. The event was one part of a series of events organized within the framework of Stockholm Academic Network. Responsible for the summary is the Staf team member Jerry Lindblom. The event was visited by two guest speakers, Chief Business Development Officer Karin Netzell and Candidate Relations Manager Sara Abrahamsson from the recruitment company Hammer & Hanborg. They had organized a somewhat interactive afternoon where we both listened to their insights from recruitment to the communication, PR and marketing industry, and became involved by using a simple Mentimeter tool1. Th The mai ain n are reas as co cover ered ed
- What organisations of tomorrow
- Demands in terms of skills and talent
- Why this is so rapidly changing
- How to create your next big thing
Three eras of automation Karin & Sara started off with a historical retrospect: 19th century: Machines take away the dirty and dangerous jobs 20th century: Machines take away the dull 21st century: Machines take away decisions We have seen the first two passing already and the third on its way. One way to observe this is that machines are now used to sort among plausible candidates. This, in turns, leads to the CV being obsolete and soon belonging in a museum. We can also see changes in organisation moving from traditional and hierarchical organisational structures towards other kinds of structures, such as network organisation, „amoeba‟ organisation or chaos
- rganisation. With the shift from towards machines for many tasks, and the changes in organisational
structure, also the resources required for production changes – both for machines and for each individual. How to show who you are without the traditional CV One way to handle recruitment when the competences asked for is not necessarily shown in CVs is by
- assessments. Hammer & Hanborg has developed one of their own, set up to show what type of profile
you are. It divides competences into five stereotypic profiles, and you find out to what extent you
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