In this episode, we learn how organisations are building a skills-based strategy for the recruitment and retention of key talent.

Joining us to discuss this topic today:

Greta Stahl, Senior Director, Organisational Learning and Development, Workday 

Podcast producer & host: Dr Dee Duffy, Senior Talent Development Partner, TU Dublin:

Want to build your future talent pipeline? Contact Technological University Dublin’s Enterprise Academy today:

Email: enterpriseacademy@tudublin.ie

Website: www.tudublin.ie/enterprise-academy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tudublin-enterprise-academy/

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In this episode, we explore a skills-first approach to talent recruitment and development.  Kate O'Sullivan, Senior Director of EU Public Policy and the Economic Graph at LinkedIn, explains the benefits to organisations and society more broadly in moving to a skills-first strategy. This is where companies hire and promote talent based on their skills rather than their job title or what school they attended. 

Kate shares significant statistics on how a skills-first strategy can create a more diverse and inclusive workforce. She also does a deeper dive into the statistics for women in leadership and unpacks the story these statistics tell us about the Irish workplace today.

Joining us to discuss this topic today:

Kate O’Sullivan, EU Director Public Policy & Economic Graph, LinkedIn

Podcast producer & host: Dr Dee Duffy, Senior Talent Development Partner, TU Dublin:

Want to build your future talent pipeline? Contact Technological University Dublin’s Enterprise Academy today:

Email: enterpriseacademy@tudublin.ie

Website: www.tudublin.ie/enterprise-academy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tudublin-enterprise-academy/

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In this episode, you will hear how one academic with her ear to the ground around the growth of Ireland's brewing and distilling industry, was afforded the opportunity to conduct research through the HEA-funded Convene project to explore how academia could support this booming sector.

While we may often have an informed hunch or intuition that there might be a need for a new education programme or offering, Dr Ciara Walsh talks through the rigorous research process she followed, together with industry-informed knowledge and data, to move a ‘hunch’ to a well-informed, data-driven decision to launch a Postgraduate Certificate in Brewing and Distilling.

Dr Walsh is joined by a graduate of the new programme, Stuart McNamara to share his entrepreneurial story. And Stuart is indeed an entertaining storyteller! He describes himself as a Soldier, Sailor and Whiskey Maker, and his story demonstrates how he has brought these skills forward into his new project- Portmagee Whskey distillery and Tourist Exhibition Centre, off the coast of the Skelligs in County Kerry.

Joining us to discuss this topic today:

Dr Ciara Walsh, Senior Talent Development Partner, TU Dublin Enterprise Academy

Stuart McNamara, Director, Portmagee Whiskey

Podcast producer & host: Dr Dee Duffy, Senior Talent Development Partner, TU Dublin:

Want to build your future talent pipeline? Contact Technological University Dublin’s Enterprise Academy today:

Email: enterpriseacademy@tudublin.ie

Website: www.tudublin.ie/enterprise-academy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tudublin-enterprise-academy/

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In this episode, we explore the benefits of Enterprise Challenges within universities. University colleagues explain how learners benefit from seeing how things work in practice and gaining real-world work experience. Meanwhile, industry partners share how their organisations benefit from students’ fresh perspectives, fresh ideas, and energetic brainstorming sessions.

Joining us to discuss this topic today:

Sarah Doran, Director of Engineering, Travelport

Mark Fowler, Strategy Innovation and Transformation, ESB

Sinead Heneghan, CEO, Learning and Development Institute

Dr Tom Macagno, Lead on Innovation for Sustainability, UCD Innovation Academy 

Niamh O’Hora, Educational Designer, TU Dublin Enterprise Academy  

Podcast producer & host: Dr Dee Duffy, Senior Talent Development Partner, TU Dublin

Want to build your future talent pipeline? Contact Technological University Dublin’s Enterprise Academy today:

Email: enterpriseacademy@tudublin.ie

Website: www.tudublin.ie/enterprise-academy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tudublin-enterprise-academy/

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In this episode, we tackle the big question of generative AI and try to gauge how these technologies are impacting Higher Education and businesses now, and into the future.

Joining us to discuss this topic today:

Barbara Whelan, Head of Education, Microsoft Ireland

Amy Awad, Senior AI Consultant, EY

Dr Robert Ross, Senior Lecturer, School of Computer Science, TU Dublin, and Funded Investigator, ADAPT Centre

Kat English, Technological University Dublin's Enterprise Academy Manager

Podcast producer & host: Dr Dee Duffy, Senior Talent Development Partner, TU Dublin

Want to build your future talent pipeline? Contact Technological University Dublin’s Enterprise Academy today:

Email: enterpriseacademy@tudublin.ie

Website: www.tudublin.ie/enterprise-academy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tudublin-enterprise-academy/

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In this episode, we aim to demystify university accreditation, and answer the question, “How does a Higher Education qualification differ from the ever-growing pool of courses and content available online?”

Joining us to discuss this topic today:

Dr Claire McAvinia, Academic Developer, Technological University Dublin

Dr Colin Hughes, Head of Technological University Dublin’s Graduate Business School

Dr Claudia Igbrudge, Enterprise Learning Technology Lead, PayPal

Gareth Lee, Manager, Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet

Jane Massy, Senior Consultant, SGS

Podcast producer & host: Dr Dee Duffy, Senior Talent Development Partner, TU Dublin

Want to build your future talent pipeline? Contact Technological University Dublin’s Enterprise Academy today:

Email: enterpriseacademy@tudublin.ie

Website: www.tudublin.ie/enterprise-academy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tudublin-enterprise-academy/

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This episode is all about authentic assessment – what they are, examples of them, and how learners can apply them in their career development.

 Joining us to discuss this topic today:

Dr Claire McBride, Convene Project Lead and Head of the Enterprise Academy

Dr Lucia Walsh, Sustainability Education Lead at Technological University Dublin

Siobhán Smith, Marketing Director, Expleo Group

Liam Cronin, CEO, RDI Hub

Podcast producer & host: Dr Dee Duffy, Senior Talent Development Partner, TU Dublin: linkedin.com/in/drdeeduffy

Want to build your future talent pipeline? Contact Technological University Dublin’s Enterprise Academy today:

Email: enterpriseacademy@tudublin.ie

Website: www.tudublin.ie/enterprise-academy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tudublin-enterprise-academy/

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In this episode, we ask the question, “What are soft skills?” Does the term soft skills even do them justice? And we will raise the critical issue of evaluating soft skills – Yes, most of us will be familiar with the ubiquitous phrase “what gets measured gets managed” but are managers measuring and more importantly rewarding these skills? and likewise, are educators recognising and assessing these skills in higher education?

Joining us to discuss this topic today:

Holly Jackson, Talent Acquisition Manager at DocuSign

Kevin Redmond, Founder of Skillding.com

Alex Gibson, Lecturer and Head of Digital Marketing at Technological University Dublin

Podcast producer & host: Dr Dee Duffy, Senior Talent Development Partner, TU Dublin

Want to build your future talent pipeline? Contact Technological University Dublin’s Enterprise Academy today:

Email: enterpriseacademy@tudublin.ie

Website: www.tudublin.ie/enterprise-academy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tudublin-enterprise-academy/

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