14 March 2013 Author / Version Control: Francesca Campalani, Early Career, Group Talent How to create an Early Career Development Strategy Francesca Campalani from RBS will share how they created an Early Career proposition together with why and how it affected the whole end-to-end talent architecture from attraction to culture to talent management. The question of: “Where do you start with building an Early Careers architecture?” will be addressed. This session gives models and solutions to help design Early Career pipelines in an integrated way responding to critical current and future business needs. Session also covers introduction to the concepts of 'potential' and 'employability', intended as learning, thinking and non-cognitive abilities, beyond past attainments and academic results. Opportunity to discuss starting a cross-industry think tank sharing knowledge and producing collective intelligence for the benefit of organisations and youth population at the same time.
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14 March 2013Author / Version Control: Francesca Campalani, Early Career,Group Talent
How to create an Early Career Development Strategy
Francesca Campalani from RBS will share how they created an Early Career proposition together with why and how it affected the whole end-to-end talent architecture from attraction to culture to talent management. The question of: “Where do you start with building an Early Careers architecture?” will be addressed. This session gives models and solutions to help design Early Career pipelines in an integrated way responding to critical current and future business needs. Session also covers introduction to the concepts of 'potential' and 'employability', intended as learning, thinking and non-cognitive abilities, beyond past attainments and academic results. Opportunity to discuss starting a cross-industry think tank sharing knowledge and producing collective intelligence for the benefit of organisations and youth population at the same time.
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:50 would be female50 would be male
27 would be ChildrenThere would be 73 adults,
8 of whom would be 65 and older
There would be:60 Asians
15 Africans14 people from the Americas
11 Europeans
12 would speak Chinese5 would speak Spanish5 would speak English3 would speak Arabic3 would speak Hindi
3 would speak Bengali3 would speak Portuguese
2 would speak Russian2 would speak Japanese
62 would speak other languages
83 would be able to read and write; 17 would not 7 would have a college degree
Sources: 2012 - Fritz Erickson, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Ferris State University (Formerly Dean of Professional and Graduate Studies, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay) and John A. Vonk, University of Northern Colorado, 2006; Returning Peace Corps Volunteers of Madison Wisconsin, Unheard Voices: Celebrating Cultures from the Developing World, 1992; Donella H. Meadows, The Global Citizen, May 31, 1990.
Country 0-15101 Morocco 28.2101 Turkmenistan 28.2103 Myanmar 27.9104 Israel 27.8105 Indonesia 27.7105 Mongolia 27.7107 Kosovo 27.5108 Guam 27.4109 Uzbekistan 27.3110 Colombia 27.2111 Montserrat 27.1112 Saint Martin 26.9112 Turkey 26.9114 Suriname 26.8115 Brazil 26.5116 Antigua & Barbuda 26.4116 New Caledonia 26.4118 Kuwait 26.2119 Brunei 26.1119 Northern Mariana Is. 26.1121 Cook Islands 26.0122 Grenada 25.8122 Wallis and Futuna 25.8124 Vietnam 25.6125 Argentina 25.5126 Bahrain 25.4127 Saint Vincent 25.2128 Costa Rica 25.0129 Bahamas 24.9130 Algeria 24.7131 Anguilla 24.3132 French Polynesia 23.8133 Sri Lanka 23.6134 Saint Lucia 23.5135 Azerbaijan 23.4
World Youth Data (continued)
Country 0-15171 France 18.6172 Australia 18.4172 Luxembourg 18.4174 Norway 18.3176 Cuba 18.1176 Saint Helena 18.1178 Armenia 17.9178 China 17.9178 Denmark 17.9
178Saint Pierre & Miquelon
17.9
182 Netherlands 17.2183 San Marino 16.8184 Man, Isle of 16.7185 Cyprus 16.5185 Great Britain & NI 16.5187 Liechtenstein 16.4188 Portugal 16.3189 Finland 16.2189 Korea (South) 16.2
189Taiwan (Rep. of China)
16.2
192 Belgium 16.0193 Canada 15.9193 Malta 15.9195 Georgia 15.8195 Montenegro 15.8197 Moldova 15.7198 Slovakia 15.7199 Andorra 15.6200 Jersey 15.6204 Switzerland 15.4205 Croatia 15.3206 Serbia 15.2207 Estonia 15.0207 Russia 15.0208 Hungary 14.8
Sources: CIA World Factbook (2010-08-04); United Nations 2011; The International Labour Organization (ILO)
Country 0-15204 Switzerland 15.4209 Poland 14.8211 Spain 14.5212 Austria 14.3212 Guernsey 14.3214 Belarus 14.2214 Bosnia & Herzegovina 14.2214 Greece 14.2217 Singapore 14.1218 Lithuania 13.9219 Bulgaria 13.8220 Ukraine 13.7221 Czech Republic 13.5221 Germany 13.5221 Slovenia 13.5224 Italy 13.4224 Latvia 13.4226 Japan 13.3227 Monaco 12.6228 Hong Kong 11.9
Country 0-15135 Dominica 23.4135 Lebanon 23.4138 Saint Kitts & Nevis 23.1139 Chile 22.7140Albania 22.6140 Greenland 22.6142 Netherlands Antilles 22.3142 Seychelles 22.3144 Mauritius 22.2144 Palau 22.2144 Tunisia 22.2147 Uruguay 22.1148 Maldives 21.9149 Qatar 21.8150 Kazakhstan 21.6151 Faroe Islands 21.3151 Iran 21.3153 Ireland 20.9153 Korea (North) 20.9155 Gibraltar 20.6156 Iceland 20.5156 New Zealand 20.5158 United Arab Emirates 20.4159 Thailand 20.3160 Norfolk Island 20.2161USA 20.1162 Virgin Islands 19.9163 British Virgin Islands 19.7164 Trinidad & Tobago 19.5165 Puerto Rico 19.4166 Cayman Islands 19.3167 Barbados 19.1167 Saint Barthelemy 19.1169 Aruba 18.8169 Macedonia 18.8
• Eight countries currently are responsible for at least 1% of global GDP: each of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), as well as the four largest “Next 11” (N-11) countries: Mexico, Korea, Turkey and Indonesia
• These are the economies that are most likely to experience rising productivity coupled with favourable demographics and, therefore, a faster growth rate than the world average going forward
• By 2020, the four BRICs economies will be responsible for almost 50% of the increase in global GDP
• Other countries could achieve Growth Market status including other N-11 countries, Nigeria, Philippines, and possibly Egypt
• Adolescence is an important time to acquire the skills, health, social networks and other attributes that form the social capital needed for a fulfilling life
• The fact that the human capital formed during adolescence and in youth is also an important determinant of long-term growth makes a strong macro-economic argument to support investing more in young people
• Engaging and enhancing young people’s capacities can yield larger returns during the course of their economically active lives
• Young people are also an enormous resource for growth
The Case for Investing in Young People (UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund, 2010)
External MarketWhat does the wider market tell us is best practice and how are we perceived externally by candidates?
Is our proposition clear, real and attractive? Are our programmes market leading with compelling careers, packages and/or value
proposition? Do we attract the RBS desired top talent?
Business StrategyDo we understand how our programmes supports the overall business strategy?
Which business objectives do we need to directly support? Are current programmes linked to present and future business shape, costs, workforce? What are the final outcomes of programmatic hires for “that” business?
Workforce PlanIs our strategy aligned to the long term workforce plan including headcount, location and skills requirements?
Do we understand the scale, structure, skills and location of our future workforce? Do we have a defined overall diversity strategy? What kind of people does the business need now and in 5 years time?
Talent StrategyAre our hires aligned and in proportion to the overall business needs?
What skills and talent gaps exist between our current and future workforce? Are resources recruited with clear profiles, personalities, and destination roles in mind? Does the talent strategy connect all early career resourcing and programmatic activity?
Value for MoneyAre we recruiting and retaining high performing resources in a cost effective way?
Is our strategy value for money against other recruitment routes and for our brand? Do 16-24 outperform internal peer groups 3 to 5 ys down the line including YFB scores? Are we retaining and developing our best graduates in 5 ys time?
What is Early Career?a) a coherent mixture of generations Y and Z b) at a different ‘plasticity’, cognitive and development stage: c) at an early professional stage: first jobbers
Induction is KeyDevelopment need to be Transformational: Input >>> Dynamic Process >>> Output
Building on the existent, not Replacing it: Innovation vs. Revolution
What is Talent?What does it mean for the Organisation?What is Talent for?How do you measure it? (see, touch, feel, hear)
How does talent look like in an embryonic and early stage?(DO NOT LOOK FOR THE FINAL “GESTALT”, BUT FOR THE PREDICTORS OF IT)
Early Career has clear ambition to maximise the impact of all is already done for this segment
The end-to-end Early Career architecture changes the perception of ‘what talent looks like’
Our main shift is to travel from past to future and, therefore, predicting and developing potential
Early Career recognises the different make-up of this segment
Early Career is a a rite of passage from school to work (and from work to value)
• What is Early Career? Does my organisation need an Early Career strategy? Is it purely programmatic and focused on graduates, interns and apprentices or does it cover the entire first jobbers population? And finally, how do we develop such a Strategy?
1. Decide what you want. Does “Early Career” cover all of your young people, your entry level, school and university leavers, or do you want it to be specific for only those considered as early talent? If you do not know what you want, you’re sure to get something else!
2. Decide why you want an Early Career strategy. Decide what your main driver is - resourcing, talent, or cost? Look at Early Career in the same way you would look at a pair of trainers: do you want them to be cool, comfortable, long-lasting, or cheap? Decide what is really important and stick with it.
3. Recognise the different make-up of the Early Career employee segment: i) a coherent generational mix; ii) at a different cognitive stage; iii) at an early professional phase. The core of this strategy consists in recognising the ‘fluid’ nature of this group as a whole: 16 to 24, and more in general people going from school to work, it is a segment that thinks, behaves and engages differently - like the ‘executive’ segment, it needs dedicated frameworks whilst, at the same time, having to be in line with the overall talent strategy.
4. Link your Early Career strategy to your Workforce planning. Be true to yourself.
5. Recruit for potential. These are people that have probably never worked before and if you base your selection on past attainments, it can be a bit like asking a fish to fly. Understand what talent looks like and how it could appear in its embryonic state. Recruiting for potential is both an art and a science and it requires ‘forecasting magic’. Use a non predictable and non-Taylor-like* competencies framework. Most ‘well educated’ young people have been trained to ‘give’ stereotypical answers; you might not be able to differentiate. Focus on a dynamic framework based on archetypal agilities, predictors of potential and cognitive and non-cognitive attributes.
6. If you want diversity, you need to do things differently. For example young people from underprivileged backgrounds may not have been exposed to traditional assessments, so they will be automatically disadvantaged should you use one. Forget any tokenistic approaches for diversity. Do not treat young people like animals in a circus where you have to have 1 lion, 2 tigers and 3 elephants. Understand the value of inclusion and the richness that diversity brings: embrace it, embed it, and reward it.
7. Early Career is a rite of passage from school to work so it has to be transformational and relevant to young people.
8. An Early Career development journey can range from a structured accreditation programme to a set of recommendations and development interventions: overall aim should be to engage and transform the whole segment recognising the extra support they (and their line managers) need. Induction and first year are the key factors for the transition from school to work!
9. Talent for this segment looks different from talent at a later professional stage given it is more focused on future predictors of potential than evidence of past attainment. There is no ‘one size fits all’.
10. Whatever you decide to do, never disconnect your Early Career strategy from the ideal line that links your junior employees to your executive talent. The first rule of the Early Career club is Congruency. The second rule of the Early Career club is Congruency. Once. Again.
• Developing an Early Career “Archetype Designer”1. the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based 2. (in Jungian psychology) a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches
Origin: 1595–1605; < Latin archetypum an original < Greek archétypon a model, pattern (neuter of archétypos of the first mold, equivalent to arche- arche- + týp ( os ) mold, type + -os adj. suffix)
Develop Organisational CapabilitiesDevelop Organisational CapabilitiesBuild the Bench & PerformanceBuild the Bench & Performance
Enhanced Developmen
t Programme
Second phase: ”early” employees should now be able to start and influence their own behaviours, learning and environment: focus now is on developing the necessary organisational skills and the ability to build meaningful business relationships to start to make an impact. Relationship are one of the main keys of change.
Third phase: “early” employees should start to consider how they can now improve the job they do, their professionalism, their function and RBS itself. The focus is on enhancing innovation and decision making.
Near to the end, “early” employees should have the chance to experience the interconnection of all they have previously learnt on-the-job and via the Core Learning Journey. The innovation project is the moment where all the previous learning comes to life in identifying, scoping and solving a real business problem adding measurable value.
At the beginning, “early” employees have the chance to understand RBS, evaluate themselves and start their journey. The focus is on developing their cognitive and non-cognitive attributes, learn more about who they are, how they think and how to achieve their ambitions. This is the foundation for the entire journey.
• Early Career is the RBS’ people strategy for entry level first jobbers coming directly from school to work in RBS which falls mainly in the 16-24 year old segment.
• At any one time RBS employs circa 7,000 people in this group (i.e. 3,000 hires each year) representing 10% of the UK workforce
• Our core aim is to maximise RBS ongoing investment in early resourcing by giving all new and current employees at this professional stage support to successfully transition from education to the workplace by: