Looking within | How adjacent skills could be the answer to your talent challenges

It’s not been easy for HR and talent teams. The skills gap is widening. And businesses are searching for new solutions to their talent predicament. Companies are now ditching the desire to match employees to exact job competencies. The importance of adjacent skills has never been more, well…important.

Between the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, and a desire for soft living post-Covid it’s not been easy for HR and talent teams. The skills gap is widening. And businesses are searching for new solutions to their talent predicament. Companies are now ditching the desire to match employees to exact job competencies. The importance of adjacent skills has never been more, well…important.

To answer the inevitable question of “okay that’s great, but what can I do to fill my talent gap?”, here are a few top tips that can get you some fresh ideas for your business. This is a quick cheat sheet into the benefits of adjacent skills and how you can bring them into your business.

First up, what are adjacent skills?

In short, its upskilling an employee or talent with existing skills. Gone are the days of having people fit into strict job descriptions. Did you know that research from Gartner has shown that a company in need of a natural-language processing expert can look to employees with machine learning or Python? With the world of work finding its feet after a pandemic and now having to deal with a possible recession, the talent market will become stretched.