By the wonders of time-travel technology this article was
written by John in March 2025.
As a Talent professional in the world of business in 2025, I
spend just about all my time looking forward, as I am sure most of
us do. Dates, planning, diaries, targets and of course my
next holiday.
On a recent flight I indulged myself by spending an hour looking
back, thinking about how far the Talent profession has come in the
past ten years since 2015. Strangely, the trigger for this
was when one of my colleagues used the term 'Human
Resources' in a meeting earlier that week. I had not
heard the term for a while and it felt very dated and impersonal,
perhaps the way 'Personnel' felt at the start of the
millennium. I thought I would take time to summarise, as I
see it, how far our profession has progressed over the past ten
years, and in my humble view what impact we have had on the
world. There are so many ways to look at this, and probably
better ways than I can
