The New Talent Code

"You need digital transformation to survive. It's not about technology. It's about fundamentally changing what a company is doing."

Hicham Zahr has a digital transformation background working for McKinsey, Oracle, and Gartner before joining Eightfold AI. Recently named one of 2022’s Top 100 HR Tech Influencers by HR Executive Magazine, Zahr has taken his lifelong passion for picking up new skills to transform people’s careers backed with talent intelligence.

With talent intelligence, "you're not just looking at that individual in the silos. Now you're putting those other elements—the ecosystem—around that individual to uncover all these skills," says Zahr.

In this episode, Zahr joins hosts Ligia Zamora and Jason Cerrato to discuss his research and how it can help any HR leader crack their talent code.

3 can't-miss quotes from this episode:

- "Unfortunately, when it comes to digital transformation, many senior execs are not thinking about butterflies. They're thinking about fast caterpillars. And that is why transforming that caterpillar into a butterfly is important but challenging." - Hicham Zahr [09:25]

- "The half-life of a skill is five years. But when it comes to technical skills, the half-life of a skill is two and a half years. And it's diminishing. That's why up-skilling and re-skilling is important." - Hicham Zahr [15:55]

- "When you are looking at architecting jobs, do not architect those for today. You want to architect those jobs for the future. This is what we call calibration nowadays. What's been emerging in the market? What are skills that are under the hood that not a lot of people have, but have been increasing in importance?" - Hicham Zahr [27:02]