If our country is well valued for the management of talent, it is not for its own sake. But for the work of some big cities like Madrid, Bilbao, Barcelona or Zaragoza.
Automation has revealed the double edge of technology. It is true that it will endanger millions of jobs, but so is the value of the creativity and talent of many professionals.
While technological innovation automates certain jobs, the disconnect between skills required by companies and training received by future professionals seems to be moving away.
This is the great challenge facing most countries in the search for competitiveness. And their greater or lesser success depends on collaboration between institutions and employers.
The Global Talent Competitiveness Index, is produced annually by the Insead business school, the Adecco group and the Human Capital Institute innovation center.
A document that analyzes those countries and cities that lead the competitiveness in the management of the talent.
Leading talent management countries
The valuation of talent as a major currency of the world labor market gives, as a result, a world ranking of the most competitive countries. Those who are more efficient at creating, capturing and managing talent.
In this list, Spain does not stand out among the countries in its environment for the development and retention of the best professionals. Unlike some of its capitals.
Our country appears in the position number 35 in the world, and 22 in Europe, of the GTCI 2017.
With the passage of time, Spain has not worsened. In fact, it advances a place with respect to the year 2016 in which it occupied the 36th position.
Although what is unique to the Spanish case is not the country as a whole. But the virtue of being able to place four cities among the most competitive.
Capitals in the competitiveness of talent
The GTCI ranking also includes the 46 cities in the world with better talent management. A list headed by Copenhagen, Zurich, Helsinki, San Francisco and Göteborg.
Here are some more familiar names. Madrid is the sixth city, ahead of Paris or Los Angeles. While Bilbao is the eighteenth and Barcelona is the twentieth, separated only by Singapore. And the Top 30 is completed by Zaragoza.
The report highlights the fact that the top ten capitals of the index have a high quality of life, high connectivity and high levels of career development opportunities.
Curiously, six of these ten cities have less than two million inhabitants. Data that dismantles the myth that only the big capitals have inhabitants with much preparation and that puts in value the quality of life of average cities (400,000 or less inhabitants).
Just as in order to become part of the talent elite, a prescription must be followed. Education systems adapted to the reality of employment, flexible working policies, labor mobility, entrepreneurship and a good relationship between employers and institutions.
