Q: How do jobs actually emerge? A: They usually start as skills (or more precisely, tasks)
within an existing job, before its value becomes recognised such they it is elevated into a specialism. We’ve seen this in recruitment, itself spinning out of the generic ‘HR’, before then subdividing into Recruitment Marketing, Sourcing. RecOps.
This post from Lightcast looks at the further subdivisions we’ve seen, this time from the data analytics side - talent intelligence, workforce planning, people analytics. Missing from this: some jobs can devolve back into being tasks / skills, and fold back to a more general role, especially if technology can do more of the heavy lift…