Industry digest: Swipe right to fill your skills gap?

How much time do you spend listening to the youngest members of your team? By that I mean a proper discussion with ears wide open to understand their lives and aspirations.  I recently sat down and had an enlightening conversation with a few of the younger, unattached members of my team just before Valentine’s Day and the conversation turned to dating. They discussed their favourite dating apps and talked about filtering out people over a certain distance away, above or below a certain height, education level, whether they drank, smoked or had children. The parallels between searching online for a partner and a job are quite striking, not least the key factors of location and income!   Related articles I began wondering how much fun it would be to be able to swipe unwanted jobs off your screen, tap a little heart next to the ones you liked, and then wait patiently to see if the employer “matched” with you.