Bizkaia Talent
Bizkaia Talent
Government agency overview
Formed2005
Preceding government agency
  • Bizkaia:xede
TypeIndependent agency
JurisdictionBiscay, Spain
HeadquartersBizkaia Science and Technology Park
Biscay, Spain
Annual budget€1,4 m euro (2020)
Government agency executive
  • Ivan Jiménez Aira
Parent departmentDepartment of Economic Promotion (Foral Government of Biscay)
Websitehttps://www.bizkaiatalent.eus/

Bizkaia Talent is a public body, attached to the Department of Economic Promotion of the Foral Government of Biscay, established as a talent recruitment agency, with the aim of attracting, linking and retaining highly qualified people in the innovation and knowledge process. It is a talent recruitment agency, and its field of work is the talent management.

Bizkaia Talent has been recognized by international media such as the BBC.[1] In 2021, Bizkaia Talent was included in the “50 Smartest Companies of the Year 2021” list by The Silicon Review.[2]

The current director of the agency is Ivan Jiménez Aira, since 2011. Previously, the director of the agency was Imanol Pradales (2007-2011).[3]

History

The Lisbon Strategy set the goal of making Europe the most competitive geographical area in the world, a competitiveness based on knowledge and innovation and a competitiveness that must materialize in greater levels of social cohesion and solidarity. With the aim of positioning the province of Biscay among the regions that join the objectives defined by the Lisbon strategy, the first project called Bizkaia Xede was carried out, whose mission was to create the necessary conditions to attract, retain and link capital human in the process of innovation and advanced knowledge.

Later and promoted by the Department of Economic Promotion of the Foral Government of Biscay, Bizkaia Talent was established in 2005 as an initiative of associative non-profit and with a clear mission, to promote and favor the establishment in Biscay and in the Basque Country in general, of the conditions necessary to attract, link and retain human capital in the process of innovation and knowledge. For this reason, and to carry out that goal of attracting talent, collaboration is available of companies and universities in the Basque Country.[4][5][6]

BBC World News highlighted this work for attracting, retaining and linking talent promoted by Bizkaia Talent.[7][8][9][10][11][12]

Talentia Service

The Talentia Service is aimed at university students and has the following programs: Talentia Programme, Competences for Professionalism in Bizkaia (Talentia Skills), Talentia Challenge and Be Basque Ambassadors. It is a service whose main ingredient is collaboration between industry and the academic world, investing in the development of Basque university talent.

Talentia Programme

The Talentia Programme of Bizkaia Talent is a program that wants to recognize and reward students with the best university academic result and trajectory (in each university bachelor's degree).

The programme is promoted by Bizkaia Talent jointly with the University of Deusto,[13] the University of the Basque Country[14] and the University of Mondragon, and it is targeted at the students who living in Biscay have the best university academic result and trajectory at the three Basque universities,[15] giving advice and support for insertion in the labour market, career development and engagement with the scientific, technological and business reality around them. Talentia is targeted at undergraduate seniors with an excellent academic record and other skills identified and evaluated by university authorities.[16][17][18] Students for the program are selected among those who are in the last year of their degree (and have an excellent academic record).

Talentia Programme wants to recognize and reward students with the best university academic result and trajectory (in each university bachelor's degree) at the University of Deusto, the University of the Basque Country and the University of Mondragon.[19][20][21]

The Talentia Program lasts for 6 months (from December to May or June, in general). In June the graduation ceremony and the delivery of the diplomas take place.

Talentia Network

The Talentia Network (Red Talentia, in Spanish) is a group of professionals selected by Bizkaia Talent and who have participated in the Talentia Program. The participants of the Talentia Program become part of the Talentia Network, along with all the other participants from previous editions.

In 2019 the Network had 1,500 members.[22][23] As of December 31, 2021, the network had 2,100 members.[24] All of them highly qualified professionals with an excellent career.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Interview with the Managing Director of Bizkaia Talent, Ivan Jimenez (BBC)". Nordic Place Branding Conference. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  2. ↑ "A non-profit organization with a clear mission: to foster and facilitate the implementation of the necessary conditions for attracting, connecting and retaining in The Basque Country: Bizkaia Talent". The Silicon Review. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  3. ↑ Ruiz, Roberto (2023-11-25). "¿Quién es Imanol Pradales, el candidato del PNV a lehendakari?". elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-12-16.
  4. ↑ "'El 90% de los jóvenes con talento que se fueron quieren volver a Euskadi'". www.eitb.eus (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  5. ↑ "Talento humano: imprescindible armonizar actitud y aptitud". www.eitb.eus (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  6. ↑ "Davos destaca a Bizkaia por su capacidad para la retención del talento. Deia, Noticias de Bizkaia". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  7. ↑ "La BBC destaca el modelo de Bizkaia para la atracción y retención de talento. Deia, Noticias de Bizkaia". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  8. ↑ "La prestigiosa cadena británica BBC WORLD destaca las iniciativas de bizkaia talent y particularidades del País Vasco". Bizkaia Talent (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  9. ↑ Country, About Basque (2016-10-22). "BBC World entrevista a Iván Jiménez directivo de Bizkaia Talent". About Basque Country (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  10. ↑ Country, About Basque (2019-04-26). "La BBC vuelve a hablar del trabajo de "recuperación de talento" de Bizkaia Talent y lo relaciona con el Brexit". About Basque Country (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  11. ↑ "Interview with the Managing Director of Bizkaia Talent, Ivan Jimenez (BBC)". Nordic Place Branding Conference. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  12. ↑ "Bizkaia Talent, un caso de éxito para atraer talento investigador a Bizkaia – EEB-OVE : BLOG" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  13. ↑ "Que es talentia". alumni.deusto.es (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2019-07-28. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  14. ↑ "Programa TALENTIA - Prácticas y Empleo - UPV/EHU". enplegua (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  15. ↑ "Rementeria: "El talento tiene la llave del futuro de Bizkaia". Deia, Noticias de Bizkaia". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  16. ↑ "Obra Social". La Vanguardia. 2017-07-27. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  17. ↑ "Cinco retos para jóvenes talentos de Bizkaia. Deia, Noticias de Bizkaia". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  18. ↑ "La BBC destaca el modelo de Bizkaia para la atracción y retención de talento. Deia, Noticias de Bizkaia". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  19. ↑ "La octava edición del programa 'Talentia' reunirá a 282 talentos universitarios de Bizkaia. Deia, Noticias de Bizkaia". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  20. ↑ "El programa Talentia Challenge propone a 30 jóvenes talentos vizcainos retos reales en empresas. Deia, Noticias de Bizkaia". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  21. ↑ "La Diputación y la BBK lanzan nuevas becas para impulsar el talento". El Correo (in Spanish). 2018-12-07. Retrieved 2019-07-25.
  22. ↑ "The tenth edition of the Talentia programme to develop university talent in Bizkaia is up and running". Bizkaia Talent (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  23. ↑ "The talentia NETWORK approaches the educational system of the University of Harvard". Bizkaia Talent (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  24. ↑ Talent, Bizkaia (2022). "Activity Report. From January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021" (PDF).
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