Real Work Ready

The professional readiness program built for years 0 to 5 of a career. Six learnable behaviors that determine how your work gets received, planned, communicated, and delivered. Nobody teaches them. Now someone does.

Learn more: www.realworkready.com

Most career advice tells you to do good work and let it speak for itself. Nobody tells you what is actually being observed on the other side of the table. Nobody tells you what HR leaders and managers are seeing, evaluating, and thinking about early career professionals that they almost never say out loud.

Dr. Dieter Veldsman is Chief HR Scientist at AIHR, a global HR academy serving over 65,000 professionals across 180 countries, a Professor of Practice at the University of Johannesburg, a former Group Chief HR Officer, and one of the most recognized voices on the future of work. He has presented at over 100 conferences, authored 80 articles, and co-authored books including Work for Humans. In this conversation, he brings the full weight of 18 years on the evaluating side of the table to an audience that has never had access to this view.

In this episode:

• What HR leaders are actually seeing and evaluating in early career professionals that most people have no idea is being observed
• Why the gap between university and the workplace persists even when organizations know it exists, and what it costs early professionals who do not know it is there
• What the research at AIHR reveals about what is changing in terms of what early professionals need to bring to the workplace right now
• What AI is making more valuable in a person, not less, and what someone in year one or two can start building before they ever need it

Real Work Ready

Everything Dr. Veldsman describes from the HR side of the table is exactly what Real Work Ready was built to teach from the professional side. The gap is real. The behaviors are learnable. The program is built for years 0 to 5.

Get started: www.realworkready.com

Connect with Dieter:

AIHR: aihr.com

Book: Work for Humans

The HR Dialogues: youtube.com/@AIHRAcademytoInnovateHR

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dieterveldsman

Connect with Laura:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lauramassetti

Instagram: @realworkreadyhq

Website: realworkready.com

No One Tells You This is a Real Work Ready podcast. Every episode is a conversation with leaders, executives, and professionals who finally decided to say what nobody said to them: the unwritten rules, the invisible dynamics, and the things that actually determine who succeeds.

Laura Massetti
Founder of Real Work Ready™

www.realworkready.com