Milan, October the 2nd: it’s "Competence VS Knowledge"

On Wednesday, October the 2nd, Talents in Motion project first technical operational table took place in Milan, at the Solari Hall in Palazzo delle Stelline, with the Think Tank "Competence VS Knowledge" designed to identify and follow concrete actions to intervene on the mismatch between business demand and university supply.

Primary goal of the session, which saw the participation of big companies like, among the others, Nestlé Group, Lamborghini, Bauli, SEA- Milan Airports, Sperlari, Coty, Coca-Cola HBC Italy, Avio and Open Fiber, was to start building, using the contribution of companies and other prestigious project partners (Istud, Unimib-Cattolica, Assolombarda), an analysis document in the form of a questionnaire, aimed at detecting the skills that our companies need most today, and in the immediate future, on one hand, and the ways in which universities can best meet these needs, on the other.

The activities, inaugurated by the Guidance Committee composed of Marco Monga, HR Director of the Italian Institute of Technology, Mario Perego, HR Director of the Heineken Group Italy, and Annamaria Poletti, Recruiting&Employer Branding Manager of Fastweb, have developed through a careful examination of the main issues on the table (active partnerships, jobs and skills, matching between demand and professional supply and related measurement), addressed by working sub-groups in the common perspective of realizing and share a timely examination of the state-of-the-art for talent in Italy, in order to start the next phase of analysis.

The resulting questionnaire will then be compared with additional survey tools already carried out by other institutions, associations and, under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Rosina (Università Cattolica of Milan) and his team, addressed to its final version to be administered to a pool composed of companies, partners of Talents in Motion, SME associated Assolombarda, Chamber of Commerce of Milan, MonzaBrianza, Lodi and other bodies/associations of the project network, as well as, of course, Italian Universities. From here, two different focus groups will be created, respectively intended, on the one hand, for young graduates who have not yet joined the company, on the other hand to young people who have just joined the organizations. In January 2020, the results of the research will be officially presented, with the relevant corrective actions to be put in place.

Absolutely essential for the initiative (and the session), the structuring of most attractive job posts on LinkedIn, a process in which Talents in Motion can now count on the support and expertise of a behemoth of the communication like of the new partner Caffeina. Heading this activity, a special team composed of Marco Monga, HR Director of the Italian Institute of Technology, Fausto Palumbo, Vice President and Head of Corporate Training&Learning Development Nestlé World, and Elisabetta Pezzotta, HR Director Sperlari. The ingredients for the recipe are all there, Talent Revolution can official begin.