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World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024 • Session details

The Future of Recruiting: Innovations and Challenges in the European IT Sector

Ingolf Teetz

By 2030, Europe will lack 4 million IT professionals. Discover how the internet of careers uses blockchain to defeat AI resume fraud and help recruiters safely scale global hiring.

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#1 about 2 min

Speaker background and recruiting platform overview

Handling large-scale applicant volume becomes achievable through robust skills-based recruiting platforms that automate hiring processes.

#2 about 3 min

Analyzing current and future IT talent shortages in Germany

The declining number of students and STEM graduates points to an exacerbating talent shortage in the German market.

#3 about 3 min

Why European migration cannot solve the German talent deficit

Europe lacks sufficient technical graduates to fill projected worker shortages, necessitating broader global migration to achieve a brain gain.

#4 about 3 min

Career data ownership and the problem with unverified profiles

The shift towards skills-based hiring exposes critical vulnerabilities in candidate profiles owned by centralized social platforms.

#5 about 5 min

Using blockchain for verifiable career credentials and talent networks

Global initiatives like the Velocity Network allow candidates to store immutable qualification records in decentralized wallets.

#6 about 2 min

Rethinking job descriptions and global hiring strategies for the future

Worsening global talent scarcity demands a paradigm shift toward hiring worldwide and prioritizing specific candidate skills.

#7 about 3 min

Adopting decentralized credentials in privacy-conscious German organizations

Implementing decentralized credentials in strict regions requires navigating data privacy preferences and coordinating individually with universities.

#8 about 2 min

Overcoming management resistance to global applicant verification solutions

Verified credentials simplify global recruiting by assuring institutional existence and degree validity to skeptical organizational management.

#9 about 2 min

Evaluating nearshoring and offshoring as viable global talent strategies

Global demographic trends indicate that talent shortages will eventually impact frequently outsourced regions like Poland and China.

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Comparing software developer hiring challenges across European markets

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Navigating technology adoption across business and IT functions

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Friction in international fundraising and distributed employment

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2:31 min

Speaker journey and professional background in talent acquisition

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7:09 min

Leveraging tools to standardize the recruiting process

Inna Busnita Inna Busnita · World Congress 2024

2:02 min

Introducing African talent to European technology markets

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