The Global Talent War: The bright future ahead

Though the raging battle for talent has incurred an increasing amount of casualties over the years, the future isn’t as bleak as it may sound.

According to Hsu Ken Ooi, co-founder and managing partner of Singapore-based accelerator Iterative, Covid-19’s exacerbated effects on the global talent war could lead to a number of benefits for both workers and employers. However, with that also comes a working world that looks very different from the one of yesterday’s.

Iterative co-founder and managing partner Hsu Ken Ooi / Photo credit: Iterative

In this episode of The Global Talent War, Globalization Partners’ Charles Ferguson and Tech in Asia’s Nathaniel Fetalvero talk to Ooi about the recruitment trends that have emerged out of necessity during crises, whether work culture will ever be the same again, and what the future of work might look like.

Timecodes:

00:00 – Intro
00:37 – Introducing Hsu Ken Ooi, co-founder and managing partner of Iterative
00:52 – The impact of the war on talent demand and supply
04:55 – Will the effects of Covid-19 on the workplace bleed into the post-pandemic future?
03:30 – Work-from-home culture versus remote working
06:25 – The long-term, exciting effects on the tech ecosystem
07:30 – But companies will still face challenges in attracting talent
08:41 – The virtuous growth cycle of supply and demand
10:32 – The rise of the borderless company
12:43 – Does culture just look different in the future of work?
14:20 – The future of recruiting is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed

Download the full transcript here.

Hosts:

• Charles Ferguson, Singapore-based general manager for Globalization Partners’ Asia-Pacific operations
• Nathaniel Fetalvero, managing editor of Tech in Asia Studios and host of the Startup Snapshot podcast

Featured Interviewee:

• Hsu Ken Ooi, co-founder and managing partner of Iterative, a Y Combinator-style accelerator based in Singapore

The Global Talent War is a podcast by Tech in Asia, produced in partnership with Globalization Partners. Visit Globalization Partners’ website to learn more about how you can gain an edge in the ever-evolving global talent war.