In this guest post, Magnite’s Australian managing director, James Young (main photo), says there’s definitely a talent crisis, but if we flip our thinking and look more closely at technological advances, a solution could be at our fingertips…IAB’s Industry Talent Report released late last year made for sobering reading. Our industry talent predicament isn’t isolated – Australia’s general labour shortages are at a record high across the board, according to a range of sources including NAB, the Reserve Bank and even Seek. But as an industry to truly solve the talent crisis, we still have two key questions to answer. And of course, as job roles grow increasingly complex, so too does the task of finding the right talent to take on the challenge. Much has been said about automation and algorithmic decisioning having the potential to replace people, as they take up the heavy lifting for repetitive transactional tasks.