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  Global talent competitiveness: a plea for diversity

  Christopher Bruton, Published on 31/07/2018

  » The Global Talent Competitiveness Index is produced each year by the Switzerland-based management school INSEAD, with support from the leading human resource group ADECCO, joined this year by TATA Communications.

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  School drop-outs cut GDP growth

  Christopher Bruton, Published on 26/02/2018

  » The best educated nations are invariably the most prosperous. Among developing nations, those that have the best chances of sustainable growth to economic maturity are those where young people take the opportunity to complete the education cycle and can thereby enter advanced productive employment.

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  Thailand: the Human Resource Hub of CLMTV?

  Christopher Bruton, Published on 13/12/2017

  » With the rapid expansion of political, economic and social relationships between the countries of what is now becoming known as CLMTV (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam), this sub-region of ASEAN is beginning to become recognised as the mainstay of Thailand’s international relations.

• BUSINESS

  Migrant Labour: opportunity or threat?

  Christopher Bruton, Published on 21/08/2017

  » Human migration has been a natural phenomenon throughout history.

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  Is English language proficiency the passport to business success?

  Christopher Bruton, Published on 04/09/2017

  » English language, mathematics and science have been defined as the essential basis for modern education. But for Thailand, recent comparative testing has indicated that these "must have" skills are often "don't have" skills holding back economic progress.

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  Thailand's got Talent -- but doesn't develop it

  Christopher Bruton, Published on 10/07/2017

  » "Thailand's got talent" is a good title for a TV talent-spotting show. But talent-spotting and developing in order to attain world ranking does not appear to be one of Thailand's strengths.

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  Building bridges or barriers: bricks or brains?

  Christopher Bruton, Published on 05/06/2017

  » With so much attention now being devoted to "Thailand 4.0", the talk is all about innovation, competitiveness, sustainable development, value creation and a host of other expressions for which at this stage there are no familiar Thai language equivalents. There is also an immense amount of planning of enabling infrastructure, including high-speed trains, expressways, special economic zones, science and industrial parks, creative districts and even an "aerotropolis". All this is to be achieved in parade ground style, in a double quick timeframe.

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  Thailand's challenge: Rich in ambitions, poor in people skills?

  Christopher Bruton, Published on 22/05/2017

  » Announcement of visionary and ambitious plans has become almost routine. The year 2017 will apparently not be an election year (nothing new about that) but has begun with boom times in the planning sector. In January 2017, we were treated to announcements about "Thailand 4.0". These were soon followed by further revelations about the "Eastern Economic Corridor". These schemes are all part of government strategies to move Thailand into "Thriving in the 21st century: security, prosperity and sustainability". The 21st century has been going for quite a while now, but "better late than never", and "never" had become quite a routine in recent years.

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  Employee Recruitment or Employer Selection: Whose Choice?

  Christopher Bruton, Published on 12/09/2016

  » In times not long past, employers were the lords and masters of the labour market. Birth rates were high, school leavers were numerous, and unless one had particular influences through families or friends, getting a decent job at a decent rate of pay was of the order of a rat race. Admittedly, there were not so many graduates with high entry skills, but then there were also not so many high-level jobs to fill. So everybody found a slot, and those slots could usually fit round or square pegs without too much friction.

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  Reverse mentoring: youth and seniors reverse roles

  Christopher Bruton, Published on 15/08/2016

  » Youth and seniors have traditionally lived in different worlds, where "ne'er the twain shall meet". Moreover, today even a difference of one generation can mean a world apart in terms of technological knowledge and skills.

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