10 emerging Talent Trends - are they happening?

At the end of last year global Executive Search firm, Korn Ferry - identified 10 emerging trends that would affect how businesses secure top talent. As we are over halfway through the year, we thought it was worth commenting on whether these things have come to pass. Please bear in mind that this was published in the USA. The trends were:



1. “(Don’t Mind the Gap) – The stigma of taking time off between jobs is fading”

In Australia, we don’t feel that this has ever really been an issue. What we are seeing more of is Australians who have been working overseas in demanding C-Suite roles, returning to Australia for family reasons. Some executives are returning to start the children in Australian schools, others have worked in more challenging cultural environments and may have been personally funding a kind of executive FIFO regime which is hard to sustain beyond a few years. We think this is great news for the Australian economy. These people typically take a break as part of the return home and we see more and more people taking short breaks to “freshen up” between jobs...