My Journey to Seera (part 3)

I left part two of this article describing how the COVID-19 pandemic not only interrupted my pursuit of a standardised talent management solution, but also bought my Transfit business to a screeching halt.

So, out of necessity, I hit the job market for the first time in nearly 20 years. What an unbelievably awful experience that was. Of course, there were very few jobs, and the ones that were posted were no doubt swamped with applicants, but I was horrified by the utter lack of humanity and transparency in the process. No matter how aligned I thought my experience was to a job ad, or how I massaged my CV and cover letter to address the key points described, 90% of the time I received no response at all, with all but a handful of the remainder responding via an auto "thanks, but no thanks" letter with no explanation or opportunity for review. BTW, kudos to the few that did respond in person.

 Having experienced this lack of transparency in the hiring process firsthand, it became immediately obvious why we are still struggling so much with issues of equality and diversity in the workplace, namely gender imbalance, race discrimination, and age bias amongst others. Surely, in 2020, there are more objective and transparent ways to deal with recruitment? But more on that in our next article series.

 Ever the optimist, and determined to restart Transfit post lockdown, I spent my spare time continuing to look for solutions for my Skills and Competency Framework management challenge. Of the limited number of solutions available worldwide, the standout, enterprise-grade, solution was Melbourne based Seera - go Melbourne!

Not only did they fully address the Competency management side of things, including tight integration with competency frameworks, they also included an equally compelling Compliance (qualifications, certifications, licenses, etc) solution, both of which addressed the workforce alignment issues that I lamented throughout my years at Readify.

 Then, as if the universe had it all planned from the start, I discovered that Seera was in fact owned by two of my former Readify business partners, and that they were looking for a CEO partner who could really relate to, and extend, their vision for the platform and business. What a coincidence. Talk about "here is one I prepared earlier".

 So here I am at Seera with a real passion and determination to help many businesses, large and small, transform their own skills and organisational capability management, based on my own experience, coupled with the power of the Seera platform and our dedicated team. Whilst, like competency frameworks themselves, Seera has yet to become an integral part of all enterprises, I firmly believe we are in the right place at the right time to make Workforce Alignment platforms as critical to an organisation’s success as are other major platforms including ERP, CRM, and HCM.

I hope you have found this article series enlightening and please stay tuned for more on these critical issues. But for now, please leave a comment with your own candidate experience, and or contact with me if you would like to understand more about how Workforce Alignment can transform your own organisation's capability management.