#WholeVillageHiring™

Why not have a test run? Much learned from last week’s Dublin IP & R&D Summit – hosted by Joe Doyle – operated by Cosmonauts and headline sponsored by Enterprise Ireland. Grateful to learn from David Goodfellow, Philip Coyle, Lexi(Xinyue) Z., Billy Gray, Andrew McGettrick, Jason Lessard, Aisling Kirwan, Mary Toomey White, Triona Walshe, Nancy Rowe and many more. Michele Dubbini of the EU IP HelpDesk gave us the example in picture of Nike Air Trainers. Also pictured is former aerospace engineer M. Frank Rudy – the patent holder of the air in a sole technology. The picture is not from the start of his career, this is where and how he worked, long after many billions of dollars had been made from his IP. The interesting bit for me, is that Rudy asked Adidas first & they laughed in his face. Phil Knight* the founder of Nike, lashed a pair on and went for a run. He ran straight back to the office, still covered with sweat and went straight to Nike's director of marketing and told him: 'I think we might have something here.’ Inspiring to also learn about Brandon Blacoe & Eibhlin O'Riordan who have managed to get accepted into Microsoft's prestigious "Designed for Xbox" program that have enabled them to become an IP led company that is making a "Positive Impact" Appreciated the chance to take part in the Q & A with Leo Clancy (also pictured) he gave helpful advice, once an engineer, always an engineer ;-) Also grateful to speak with colleagues at the IDA Ireland about my company’s ability to use technology to create unique housing for talent as well as making a positive impact on gender in the Irish advanced manufacturing workforce. Just getting started on how to secure IP on how to hire & house. #JustDoIt #IrishInnovation #Irishinventors #globalambition #irishadvantage #IPStrategy #intellectualproperty #IP #DyslexicThinking #GiveItALash *Not sure if Phil Knight’s acceptance of ‘out of the box thinking’ was due to him being a fellow dyslexic, or that he too started by MVP sales first, in his case, out of the back of his car ;-)

Living in ‘Digs’ does not require any ‘Digging’ Living in ‘Digs’ does not require any ‘Digging’ Living in ‘Digs’ does not require any ‘Digging’ My company right now is trying very hard to connect with employers in the Limerick area who are interested in: A) Hiring highly qualified, advanced manufacturing / STEM / TECH experienced talent (who are fully allowed to work in any EU job - with no visa requirement) & B) In addition to hiring this talent, we will house them in EXISTING ACCOMODATION (already built!) provision we have created in the Limerick area, local to each potential employer. We have done this by working with a local Limerick EU Cultural Group (happy to share details for anyone interested, just not ready to post on it) There are no fees for either the hiring or housing of this talent. So, image in this post is from an email to me this morning, from a LinkedIn trawl that assumes anyone talking about accommodation is clearing fields, digging holes and laying bricks. A connection I respect, appreciate and value because they often actually respond, also referred me to a Limerick based ‘property development group’ – With many Irish uncles in the building trade in London, I am not looking to lay bricks over tapping a keyboard, my fear of heights comes from hod carrying on summer holidays on sites where health & safety was a quick sign of the cross. If there is a single person out there over the age of 45 I guess, in the Limerick area, please feel free to help the algorithms understand that: ‘Digs’ = “Living with an owner occupier, commonly referred to as 'digs', it is a budget-friendly and adaptable living arrangement” – We are spinning up a Limerick focused workforce housing Airbnb community (Digs Online) from within the ex-pats of the EU Country our platform has been sourcing from. * Ireland has the third highest level of under occupancy of homes in the EU. ** Proportionate to population, Limerick has seen the largest decline of EU talent since CV19. *** The rent a room scheme in Ireland has a COMPLETE tax free exemption limit of €14,000 #Bytes_to_Beds #WholeVillageHiring

How to boost direct hiring? Thanks to Natasha Preocanin of IHR - In-house Recruitment - Niall Hughes, Assoc CIPD of KEO International Consultants & Ryan McFeeley of iCIMS. Celtic vibes throughout the webinar, great to hear customers talking about ICIMS capabilities that exist due to their acquisition of the Irish Start-Up Opening.io as well as Ryan’s colleagues from the Glasgow founded Candidate.ID. In the Slido poll (see pic post) a lack of qualified candidates was in joint 1st place and attracting more diverse applicants was in 3rd. Natasha kindly informed me, that the diversity issue has normally been in top place for the last two years. For #WholeVillageHiring™#WholeVillageHiring™ we see them as the same issue. All ad response is about confidence, not ability. The diversity in the market, but not on it, is the additional qualified talent you need as candidates. Fascinating to hear how similar in-house recruitment is today as it was when I first undertook the job for Vodafone UK, over twenty years ago. The difficult to fill, harder locations etc are still the roles going out to your PSL / search partners. With 85% plus of the Fortune 500 on ICIMS or just 4 other HCM tech platforms, the challenge for start-ups that want to build tech to compete for those jobs is about building trust. That is two sided, fulfilling the criteria to be in places like the ICIMS Market Place (we are working on this, as our first HCM integration). The other, just as important, is trust from in-house recruiters in AI tools. I was the first RPO recruiter to hire for tech roles in Vodafone UK, because the Vodafone UK board trusted Jeremy Tipper, Jeremy trusted Lyndal Payne and Lyndal trusted me. I then got up every day and drove from London to Newbury to work side by side with my Vodafone ‘proper’ colleagues. As humans we first learn to speak by constant exposure to language from our parents.   I have literally bet the house, that the ability for AI to disrupt the jobs in-house folks send to agencies will be based on how AI can learn about the values and culture of each company it is operating for. This has been described as Small Language Models, AI at the edge, the ability for users to screen & decide what data guides the ML training. I call it the lesson of Superman & Kent Family Values, but I learnt that from Mo Gawdat – Also, beware of those selling ‘bias free’ AI for hiring as Dr O'Neil says “Algorithms Are Opinions Embedded in Code” – So for AI to take over from your PSL, stop thinking about being a purchaser. Congratulations are in order; you are going to be a parent! More on that from Mo & Cathy here: https://lnkd.in/e_-kpdDw If you want to help parent #WVH version 1.1 including - Quinn™ - from the Irish - ‘O'Cuinn’ which means: “Chief/Counsel/Wisdom” with help from Google, please join in. All we need is your hiring problems & your values. #WholeVillageHiring™ ”Never lowers the bar, but it is always working on how to widen the gate!”

Go West! There is an abundance of tech talent in the EU in the East and an abundance of jobs in the West! Packed room all day yesterday at the Dublin Tech Summit – lots of folks still hiring all over Ireland. In the graph pictured we see Ireland at the top of the class for job growth at 13% from 2019-23, with Latvia at the other end at -2%. Eurostat data shows us that since 2019 68.5% of women in Latvia aged 25-65 with a degree are working in their tech industry.... Is it not pass time to bring more of them into the Irish workforce? Appreciated the chance to speak to those representing the Polska Izba Informatyki i Telekomunikacji (Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications) In Poland from 2013-19 43% of STEM graduates were female, many of them now have the right experience for stepping into leadership roles in tech. Spending some of their career in Ireland is a win, win for both countries. Grateful also to chat with Dr Samira Nik, PhD, of European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) – sometimes it takes someone new to a country to fully see all the positives it has to offer. I promised to update her on #WholeVillageHiring™ progress to hire and HOUSE female talent from Poland into jobs in Limerick. Via #Bytes_to_Beds – 52% of the EU STEM workforce of 76,000,000 are now female. Grateful to chat to Shane O'Hanlon and a new bunch of contacts in NI about the scope to increase talent mobility between North and South. Thanks also to Sree (Sreekanth Nagabhushana) & Brian Caulfield for that. Making change will take a Village, The Whole Village (& the whole Island) The #WVH focus for Ireland is about the regions, as an immigrant myself to this place, my network is still bigger in where I am from, than where I now live. So, if you know anyone interested in talent mobility for the regions of Ireland - please send them my way :-) Popping back to DTS today to listen to Oisin Hanrahan & DC Cahalane discuss “Tech in Action: Real Solutions for the Real World” around 4pm. Do you think AI would become much more REAL as it starts to make REAL progress on REAL problems like housing & health? #DublinTechSummit #TechTalent #STEMLeadership #EUJobs #TalentMobility #TechforGood #TechforHousing #52percent #WildAtlanticSTAY #Limerick