Kim Seeling Smith

Kim Seeling Smith is an international speaker, trainer, coach, mentor and author on Career Management and Employee Retention issues. Through her company, Ignite Global, Kim helps organizations build healthy work environments and increase employee engagement and productivity in our digitally connected, globally oriented world.

The relevancy of skills decreases by half in less than 5 years and that number decreases to 2.5 years for some tech positions

According to the World Economic Forum, Harvard Business Review and other sources, the relevancy of skills decreases by half in less than 5 years and that number decreases to 2.5 years for some tech positions. And, due to the skills shortage, we can no longer trade out people with obsolete skills for those with more […]

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4 Session Series of Mini Masterclasses for Engineers

Are you an engineer or involved in recruiting engineers? Beginning next month, I\’ll be leading a 4 session series of mini masterclasses specifically for engineers, in collaboration with Engineers Australia and Engineering Education Australia on recruitment and overcoming the skills shortage. During this series of sessions (which you can register for 1, all or any

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Business Leaders and Change

In my deep dive on DEI initiatives of late (in part in preparation for last week\’s Today Show Segment https://lnkd.in/gPW874-2) I came across this article which sums up what I\’ve been saying for years. 𝗜𝗳 𝘄𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘀𝗼. 𝗜𝘁\’𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁

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It\’s official! The Workplace Gender Equity Report has been made public!

It\’s official! The Workplace Gender Equity Report has been made public for the first time listing gender pay gaps for nearly 5,000 Australian private sector employers. This will have HUGE ramifications for employee attraction and retention and is made all the more complicated by the Pay Secrecy legislation passed last year – AND the recently

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It\’s official! The Workplace Gender Equity Report has been made public!

It\’s official! The Workplace Gender Equity Report has been made public for the first time listing gender pay gaps for nearly 5,000 Australian private sector employers. This will have HUGE ramifications for employee attraction and retention and is made all the more complicated by the Pay Secrecy legislation passed last year – AND the recently

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Being a judge for this year\’s Consult Australia Awards for Excellence

I am incredibly honoured to have been asked to be a judge for this year\’s Consult Australia Awards for Excellence. My bit is now done (except for the Gala Dinner in March where the awards are given out, of course). Can I just say, this job was HARD! I judged 3 categories and was extremely impressed

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