«The Digital Transformation of a company must start from the digitization of its professionals».»

The University of Seville has held the III Job Fair, a meeting designed to bring together companies and young talents within the university context. The main objective of the event is that young people can solve their main doubts and concerns regarding the labor market, as well as upload your curriculum vitae to an online platform to which the companies that have attended the Fair will be able to have access.. On this occasion, the number of participating companies was 70, and the number of students who visited the Fair reached more than 4,000.

The delegation of Zemsania Tech Talent Solutions in Seville, headed by Andrés Rabadán, attended the Job Fair for the first time and told us his impressions after two days of the event.

How would you define the state of young talent in Spain? Do we have, right now, a good potential for companies looking for junior profiles?

Andrés RabadánThe current young talent in Spain has been cultivated under the pressure of the crisis and what is expected of millennials, which contrary to popular belief, is not a hedonistic generation that gets bored easily, but a generation that has been formed with the “San Benito” that in Spain there is no work, that there are many graduates selling hamburgers, that you have to emigrate ... and this is something that seems to be tanning them. At the fair we have been able to observe, first of all, the large number of young people who have visited the fair, who have come to find out what companies are looking for and what would be the next training steps that best fit the needs of the market.

We were also pleasantly surprised to learn that the University has taken the lead in some postgraduate courses, because although we already knew about SAP, at this fair we have found postgraduate courses in Big Data and Cloud taught by public universities, which is an indicator that there is beginning to be a more coherent connection between the labor market and university training plans.

From Zemsania, how do you value your participation in the event?

ARThe main idea we wanted to convey in our participation in this event was that we were looking for “DIGITAL TALENT”, with special emphasis on the word talent. The fact that digital transformation is a must for companies that want to develop in an increasingly short-term future is very topical. But there is a tendency to associate the digital transformation process of a company exclusively with computer engineers. This is a concept with which we do not agree and which we believe is one of the main obstacles for many companies in their digital development. At Zemsania we believe that the digital transformation of a company should start with the digitization of its professionals, that is, developing technological talent in the specific workforce of the company's business. In this sense, our approach to the fair was based on informing young talent that it was not exclusive to computer engineers to participate in the digitization of the future, but that they could develop technological talent and be the precursors of the future digitization of companies. Of course, I am talking about digital marketing, e-commerce, Content Manager, e-recruiment Manager ... profiles that are not necessarily typical of an engineering but rather coming from “classic” profiles that have been digitized.

Do you think this fair has been a good opportunity to find the talent that Zemsania's customers need?

ARMore than to find quality talent, which we have found, we have detected young profiles with great potential and it has helped us to know the concerns or the interest of young people in Seville and how they move when looking for a job, what they like most about the digital sector and we have done a lot of “express” interviews that in a normal work context we would not have been able to do.

Also, and in line with what we mentioned above, we have been able to make our brand known to talents who, because they considered us an engineering consulting firm, did not consider us as potential employers.