This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.
The companies have begun to operate in a VUCA environment (acronym used to define the volatile, complex, uncertain and ambiguous current context), which is requiring that talent be recycled continuously, both formally and during the exercise of its activity professional. In fact, more and more workers with a high capacity for learning or learnability are asked for throughout their lives.
Today there are many companies that will have to face some type of disruption, as a result of technological innovation and the emergence of some alternative business model. This is revealed by Santiago Garcia, founder of Future for Work Institute, which also emphasizes the importance of having a workforce capable of learning and unlearning on a permanent basis, in order to be able to adapt to the changing environment and trends that are to come as a result of digital development.
In this sense, an article published by Impact Hub Madrid has revealed the three distinct profiles that companies find in the market and that have different nuances when it comes to training, although the same common element: "curiosity, adaptability and capacity for continuous learning - or what the English call 'learnabilty'."
Versatile Learning Animals
It's a candidate profile that is "capable of learning, more than what you already know". This is how, according to Impact Hub Madrid, they define the 'Versatile Learning Animals' of Google. In fact, the article ensures that the technology has stopped evaluating its candidates based on their formal training, to focus on their ability to learn, due in part to the increasingly shorter time that the knowledge acquired has acquired. through these trainings.
In this sense, the 'Versatile Learning Animals' are able to anticipate these needs that companies will have and, therefore, acquire the skills and knowledge that will be key even before they are. In addition, they are supporters of a capacity that is positioning itself as a society for organizations: the ability to unlearn and to "explore new ways to reach unexpected solutions", as published by Impact Hub Madrid.
Knowmads
The 'nomads of knowledge' or Knowmads are those that have an innovative, imaginative and creative profile, which apply to the workplace and that allows companies to generate those new ideas with which to reinvent the business. In this sense, according to the article, it is the "21st century professional", characterized by not having a specific job position, but "brings his knowledge to different projects and teams, working from different places." "His office is a computer and a mobile phone", stand out from Impact Hub Madrid, who also point out how his multidisciplinarity "forces him to be in a continuous learning mode".
Professional Pi
It is a professional profile "with two strong and complementary lines of expertise, understanding that the profiles are no longer letters or sciences", according to the article. In this sense, Impact Hub Madrid indicates that the new reality of the market is requiring that talent acquire a combination of key technical knowledge, business experience and soft skills linked to creativity, communication or strategic vision, that is, "skills" both inter and intrapersonal. To this formula is added now another element that Pi Professionals already have: the skills that can arise from specific hobbies and that allow to unite work and passion.
"Pi Professionals are aware of what they know and what they need to learn. Specific courses, online and offline, some of more extensive duration or others in intensive format are their learning ways to strengthen the second pillar of knowledge," concludes the article.
This article was written and published in Spanish and has been translated into English via Google Translate. Click here to read the original article.
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