BCTalent Stories: Sabre Limited
Rob Jolof, president of Sabre Limited, describes how the Reskill program helped his firm with the talent shortage in the Business Central ecosystem. Sabre is a Business Central partner in Ontario that focuses on manufacturing. He covers combined recruiting, training, onboarding and mentoring of new staff, including younger digital natives, and plans to upskill Sabre's existing staff through the program.
- Introduction to Sabre Limited
- The talent shortage in the Business Central ecosystem
- Need for digital natives and new perspectives
- Reskill program addressing the talent gap
- Value of combined recruiting, training and mentoring
Overview
In this two-minute talent story, Sabre Limited describes the staffing problem partners face as Business Central grows. The speaker says Business Central is one of the fastest growing cloud ERP systems, and that this growth has created a shortage of qualified people.
The speaker argues that a new technology needs a new mindset, and that Millennials and younger people bring it. Sabre used the Reskill program to find a candidate. The speaker says the effort was much less than doing it alone, and that the most valuable part was the training and coaching. The speaker also values that Reskill combines recruiting with training, onboarding and mentoring.
Key points
- Sabre Limited is a Business Central partner in Ontario, Canada, focused exclusively on manufacturing across North America.
- Sabre Limited says Business Central growth is causing a talent shortage in the partner ecosystem.
- The speaker says Business Central is a new technology that needs a new mindset, which younger people and digital natives bring.
- The Reskill program combines recruiting, training, onboarding and mentoring of candidates.
- Reskill took about two months to find a candidate, roughly what Sabre would have taken itself, but with much less effort for Sabre.
- The speaker names training and coaching as the most valuable part of Reskill. Sabre is likely to send internal staff through it to gain experience and expertise.
- The speaker recommends Reskill for partners who want to upskill existing staff or hire new staff.
Features
| Feature | Status | At |
|---|---|---|
| Reskill program | status not stated | 0:54 |
Quotes
- 0:17 “business Central is one of the fastest growing Erp systems in the cloud today and that growth is causing a problem where there just”
- 0:31 “business Central is a new technology we need a new mindset we need a new perspective and Millennials and younger people are bringing that”
- 0:54 “two months to have res skill find that candidate was about what it might have taken us but the effort was much much less”
- 0:54 “the most valuable component of res skill is the training and coaching”
- 1:14 “we’re very likely to send a couple of our internal staff on the res skill program for the training and coaching”
- 1:30 “the fact that res skill is combining both the recruiting and the training and onboarding and mentoring of those candidates is a huge advantage”
Presenters (as heard): Rob Jolof.