Rajeeb Dey from Enternships talks about taking a learning based approach to attracting, selecting & hiring talent

1. Rethinking Recruitment:
taking a learning based approach to attracting,
selecting & hiring talent
Rajeeb Dey
Founder & CEO
Enternships
@rajdey

2. Enternships

3. We have a problem…
• 74% of educationalists believe graduates to be prepared
for the world of work
• 38% of graduates feel the same
• Only 35% of employers agree

4. Head of Recruitment vs Head of Rejection?
• Current customers?
• Future customers?
• Future experienced hires?

5. Big Data Scientist? Social Media Manager?
“The top ten in-demand jobs in 2010 . . . did not exist
in 2004. [. . .] The U.S. Department of Labor estimates
that today’s learner will have 10-14 jobs . . . by the
age of 38.”

6. Generation Y
THEIR CHARACTERISTICS
Values-driven
Strong personal brand
Highly connected
On-demand learners
THEIR WORLD
Open source
Sharing economy
‘Pay it forward’
Collaborative consumption

7. Motivation
Autonomy, mastery and purpose.
DAN PINK

8. Boom in online learning
..talent from unconventional sources

9. What’s needed?
AUTONOMY
Give candidates
the opportunity to
discover their
ideal path by
themselves.
MASTERY
Give candidates
the opportunity to
learn and master
new skills.
PURPOSE
Give candidates
an outcome (job)
towards which
they can focus
their skills
development.

10. Online:Offline:Experiential

11. Why teach your future workforce?
ATTRACTION
• Diversity
• Re-position
employer brand
SELECTION
• Add value to those
unsuccessful ->
advocates
• Corporate
Citizenship / CSR
RETENTION
• Hit the ground
running
• Insight into role

12. “We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist
. . . using technologies that haven’t been invented . . . in order
to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.”
- Karl Fisch
Shift Happens…

13. Get in touch
Rajeeb Dey
rajeeb@enternships.com
@rajdey

14. Get in touch
Rajeeb Dey
rajeeb@enternships.com
@rajdey