The TechWolf Podcast
The TechWolf Podcast
Podcast Description
Technology in HR is booming, yet confusing.
Many vendors claim to include AI (agents), skills, seamless integrations, and other technologies in their product offerings.
In practice, product promises often differ from reality.
In this podcast, our host, Julius Schelstraete, holds no-nonsense conversations with business practitioners and thought leaders on everything related to "the skills-based organization": what it is, whether it's realistic, typical roadblocks, real-life use cases, and more.
Join us as we move beyond the hype and examine skills-based HR from a critical, realistic lens!
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Content Themes
The podcast delves into themes surrounding the evolution of HR into skills-based organizations, addressing topics such as the practical hurdles organizations face, the critical role of skills data, and the balance between strategy and technology. Episodes include discussions on whether all organizations should adopt a skills-based approach, real-world examples from EPAM Systems, and strategies for gaining business buy-in for skills initiatives.
Technology in HR is booming, yet confusing.
Many vendors claim to include AI (agents), skills, seamless integrations, and other technologies in their product offerings.
In practice, product promises often differ from reality.
In this podcast, our host, Julius Schelstraete, holds no-nonsense conversations with business practitioners and thought leaders on everything related to “the skills-based organization”: what it is, whether it’s realistic, typical roadblocks, real-life use cases, and more.
Join us as we move beyond the hype and examine skills-based HR from a critical, realistic lens!
Everyone wants a “skills-based organization.” Almost no one has built one.
At AstraZeneca, Global Director of Talent Intelligence Lara Martinez Gonzalez has spent four years connecting a tangle of recruitment systems, development platforms, and job architecture into one language for the workforce, and she’s blunt about how hard it has been.
In this episode, she argues skills is a data problem, not an HR project, explains why she refuses to say the word “skills” in front of business leaders, and shows where the value has actually landed so far. Plus the trap that cost her almost a year, and the company she’s seen get closest to skills-native.
Timestamps:
00:57 — The one skills claim leaders should push back on
02:05 — Four years of skills work, told as an Odyssey
05:46 — How to pick which problem to solve first
10:48 — Why she drops the word “skills” in business meetings
16:30 — Reading the market: from skills to tasks
20:19 — Who should own tasks: HR or the business?
21:54 — The honest ROI: “still squeezing the lemon”
31:32 — Her 90-day advice to peers two years in
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