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Judul
Inclusive hiring, reskilling for digital talent shortage
Media
The Jakarta Post
Terbit
8 Juli 2019
Tone
Netral
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https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/07/08/inclusive-hiring- reskilling-digital-talent-shortage.html
PR VALUE
Rp.60,000,000
Jurnalis
Raisa Nabilla
Inclusive hiring, reskilling for digital talent shortage
Jakarta / Mon, July 8 2019 / 01:23 am
According to a 2018 McKinsey report, Indonesia’s emerging digital economy is expected to create 3.7 million additional jobs by 2025, but what kinds of jobs and for who? During my past five years working in the digital industry, my experience has taught me one thing: The digital economy has the ability to create high-quality jobs, but only a few people have access to them. As we see significant waves of workers pursuing on-demand, low-skilled jobs such as app-based ojek (motorcycle taxi) driver, there has not been any significant change in terms of who benefits from high-skill, high-education jobs such as programming.
A quick look at the employee demography of the four Indonesian unicorns (Go-Jek, Bukalapak, Traveloka and Tokopedia) shows that 40 percent of their white-collar positions are filled by graduates from three universities: University of Indonesia (UI), the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and Bina Nusantara University.
Inequality is made worse by the companies’ go-to solution when they run out of local talent: hire foreign workers or establish an office overseas.
It is unfortunate that what might seem like a justified, rational business decision is going to hurt the local workforce in the long run. The digital talent shortage is a real problem and many stakeholders indeed are making efforts to close the skills gap. The government, for instance, is revitalizing vocational education and training, the National Apprenticeship Program and Digital Talent Scholarship through the Communications and Information Ministry.
Moreover, alternative education providers such as Hacktiv8, Purwadhika Startup & Coding School, Binar Academy, IYKRA, most recently, RevoU, have popped up. However, there are two things employers themselves can do further to address the talent shortage: inclusive hiring and reskilling. Implementing inclusive hiring means having a recruitment process that minimizes bias and is open to all skilled talent, regardless of background. Even though one’s technical skill is the major factor valued by employers for a role like