Skills Gaps

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4.6 • 782 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Are you underqualified for the job you want? Dan and Alison answer your questions with the help of Obed Louissaint, IBM’s head of talent. They talk through what to do when an MBA isn’t enough to get you into your desired role, you’re trying to keep your skills current as you spend more time managing people, or you want to return to a fast-moving industry after a long stint in another field.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear HBR from Harvard Business Review.
0:03.9	I'm Dan McGinn.
0:04.9	And I'm Alison Beard.
0:12.3	Work can be frustrating, but it doesn't have to be.
0:15.3	We don't need to let the conflicts get us down.
0:17.8	That's where Dear HBR comes in.
0:19.9	We take your questions, look at the research, talk to the experts, and help you move forward.
0:32.9	Today we're talking about skill gaps with Obed Lewesaint.
0:36.2	He's the head of talent at IBM.
0:38.3	Obed, thanks for coming on the show.
0:40.0	Thanks for having me.
0:41.5	So at a company like IBM, is there a time in your career where you've needed to jump between
0:45.8	roles and radically change your skill set?
0:49.0	Just about every year.
0:50.9	It's an ever-going and ever-changing thing.
0:54.3	How often do employees come to you wanting to jump into new roles but not having the skills
1:01.2	they need to do it?
1:02.3	Well, we have a workforce of over 360,000 people, so I limit how many come to me personally.
1:10.6	But we do have one and four of our people changing jobs every year, right?
1:16.8	So it's a place of constant career velocity as well as internal movement.
1:22.3	And we've built systems to enable that, right?
1:24.8	So the answer is rarely, no, you don't have the skills.
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