"Let’s talk about age baby, let’s talk about you and me”.

“Queuing for the club”

I&D 3.0 and the future of automation connected to wellness.

As well as seeking meaningful and social change collaborations, where my creativity can be used to pimp concepts and products,

I am also seeking roles in businesses that I admire. So far I’ve mainly gone down the traditional route of hiring platforms.

Times have changed since I worked with talent acquisition, from bespoke personal involvement to hard-core automation.

Great that the paper trail is no more. I made a paper shredder catch fire once in a heavy regular clean up. Not very H&S.

Great that efficiency and speed of processes have been revolutionised.

But, there’s a downside to over-relying on automation, missed opportunities, and in worst case, bias and discrimination.

That is if your algorithms are not up to date with I&D.

Got an idea for you, feel free to implement, it will build your credibility as a business and communicate that you are "with it".

The idea:

The global wellness market is steadily growing and has huge potential for lucrative innovation.

McKinsey Global Wellness Trends 2024 points out healthy aging as one of their top 7 growing areas.

Healthy aging means your chronological age is just a number.

Many hiring platforms often prompt you to put your chronological age bracket in, with the occasional sweet I&D “Prefer not to say”.

Instead of chronological age, make a tick box for applicants biological age. This is far more useful information for potential employeers.

And as everything in life, a healthy balance, human touch & tech is king!