Rethinking Digital Talent Core Competencies Irrestry Naritasari
Universitas Indonesia
PT Jasa Marga (Persero) Tbk
Abstract
Facing industry 4.0, Industry nowadays in Indonesia is expected to create and develop Digital Talent. Earliest in the 2022, SOE Ministry sets up the target of 80. 000 SOE employees to be technology literate. Therefore, the SOE Ministry creates ^Making Digital Talent BUMN (SOE)^. There are also another programme to creates Digital Talent by Government as well as Private Company through Digital Talent Scholarship, Tokopedia Academy, etc. These programme exists since Indonesia is lacking Digital Talent. Based on World Bank Study, Indonesia Labour is not yet ready to face the changes driven by Technology Advances due to critical shortage of skills in both managerial and professional workers. As far as Industry put the concern to Digital Talent issues, creating and developing Digital Talent in Industry is quite challenging. A lack of consensus of what Digital Talent is, what competencies needed to be Digital Talent, and how to measure Digital Talent makes Industry makes Industry lose the way to create and develop Digital Talent. For example, if Digital Talent is associated with advance technological skills, thus, companies need to recruit only those with advance technology skills (i.e. programming and data) and/or develop their existing employee to acquire advance technology skills. However, defining Digital Talent from technological skills only is too limited. Some job positions indeed must posit advance technology skills (i.e. data scientist, data analyst, product manager), however, other job positions may not need to be advanced. It may not be essential for managerial workers to be expertise in technology, but they must understand the logic to eventually solve the problem and take the right decision. Therefore, the Digital Talent is way beyond technological skills. Technological skill is important, but it is not the main competency for Digital Talent. The aim of this paper is to gain understanding of Core Competencies needed for Digital Talent. This paper will discuss
