Companies choosing external recruitment while neglecting in-house training

Your company, alongside many others, is in the grip of a skills shortage. You need talent and you need it yesterday. What do you do? Build from within? Or import and integrate? This is the dilemma that is clutching indecisive businesses all over the country.

Bringing in talent may provide an instant remedy to a recruitment malady, but when it comes to filling middle management and leadership roles, only 26% of organisations say they find it easier to recruit externally, while even less (20%) have aligned L&D to organisational growth and leadership.

Kevin Young, Managing Director of Skillsoft, said it is an “interesting time” for Learning and Deveopment: “The research indicates a gap between the acknowledgement of best practice and the execution of best practice. There’s a disconnect in terms of a landscape of talent expansion and employee development approach, and in some ways that’s no surprise because a lot of organisations have different skills requirements at different times of their employee development cycle. There’s an interest[ing] disparity between the theory and the execution in practice.