Labour market speaker

A labour market speaker who redefines the shortage.

Not a shortage of people, but a shortage of visibility on talent. I show organisations how to read the labour market differently, and act on it too.

Laurens Waling with open arms in front of the words 'the future starts here'
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The baker who became an EV charging technician.

My favourite example on stage. On paper: a completely different job. In skills: 80% overlap. Once you look at tasks and potential instead of diplomas and job titles, you suddenly see thousands of matches like this on the labour market. The best person for every job, and the best job for every person.

The real question

Labour scarcity is structural. Yet organisations keep doing the same.

More vacancies, more recruitment budget, more of the same. In this keynote I flip the question: it’s not a capacity problem, it’s an organisational one. Using recognisable examples, I show how work becomes agile once you detach it from fixed jobs.

Not with more vacancies. Not with scattered AI pilots. But with different choices about tasks, skills and deployment.

Laurens Waling on stage with live audience research
Where I have spoken on the labour market

HR, recruitment and labour market events

Digitaal WervenWerf&Recruitment Tech EventAI & Recruitment CongresDe Nieuwe ArbeidsmarktUWVUNLEASH · ParisZukunft Personal · CologneGlobal Talent Intelligence Conference