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Monaco Career Days: April 15th-16th, 2010
Companies are increasingly focusing on social and gender diversity in recruitment according to experts.
Talent diversity discussed by HR Directors and Recruiters at the International University of Monaco’s successful Monaco Career Days.
Talent diversity – a growing priority for many businesses according to human resource experts – was discussed during the Monaco Career Days, which took place in Monte Carlo on April 15 and 16.
The school welcomed recruiters, HR Directors and talent managers to the second day of the two-day event to participate in roundtable discussions on talent management and diversity in the workplace and recruitment processes.
The panel discussion started with a re-definition of talent and its performance measurements within companies. Then all the panelists described their own challenges in inducting and managing talent diversity within their international corporation.
"We have changed our view on talent in the past 2 years. Our prior model was based on valuing high potentials. Now, every employee in the company is considered talent. We de-emphasize promotability and mobility, which were classic criteria used in the Group" explained Jonathan Rennotte, Director Talent, Performance & Learning at Nestle Waters. "We emphasize now the concept of learning agility to assess our talent and human potential".
"The financial/economic crisis has changed the way we manage our talents in investment banking. We don´t want to recruit "stars" anymore, and we pay more attention to talent development, in order to implement a real managerial culture", said Camille Dupuy-Olleon, Head of talent management projects with Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Banking.
"Same as with the ING Group, added Edson Hato, Head of Leadership Acquisition at ING Group, financial crisis inspired new thinking, with a "back" to basics and a strong re-focus to customers." To address the question on "Gender Diversity", Edson showed the results of a recent survey published by Mckinsey. The survey "Women Matters" demonstrates that four behaviours are seen as most effective in addressing the global challenges of the future – intellectual stimulation, inspiration, participative decision making, expectations and rewards – women apply three of these four behaviours more frequently than men.
Managing cultural diversity while restructuring is a big challenge for a human resources director, particularly when you have to merge a process driven Japanese seniority based culture with a results-driven American one, but a successful blend gets quick results with best execution, explained Ken Cogger, Head of Talent Management at Nikko Asset Management, one of the largest Asian asset management company.
Diversity is an opportunity concluded Roberto Boscia, HR Director Southern Europe of Orange Business Services, an opportunity to see the world in various ways and to create the adjusted solutions to anyone.
During these 2 days, IUM alumni and students were able to benefit from this new talent diversity focus of the best renowned international companies who participated in this event: Cisco, UBS, ING, Ermenegildo Zegna, Orange, Nestle Waters, Credit Agricole CIB, Nikko AM, Ferragamo, Geox, Campari International, Hotel Le Metropole, Honda.
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