From Gamer to Air Traffic Controller: How Transferable Skills Solve Staffing Challenges

A growing shortage of air traffic controllers is impacting operations, customer experience, and staffing teams. One solution gaining traction is to look beyond traditional backgrounds and tap into transferable skills from unexpected talent pools, like gamers.

This raises an important question for employers across industries: where are we overlooking talent, internally or externally, and how can we better identify it? When the same hiring strategies continue to produce limited results, it is usually a sign it’s time to shift the approach.

The Mesibriz Method

At Mesibriz, we start this process during screening and while sourcing talent. We focus less on what someone has done and more on how their skills translate:

• Match behaviors to talent in other industries with similar strengths

• Expand the talent pool beyond traditional backgrounds

• Introduce candidates to roles they may not have considered 

The result:

• Candidates stepping into new opportunities

• Clients gaining stronger, more aligned hire

Ready to rethink your hiring strategy?

Let Mesibriz help you uncover untapped talent and build a workforce for today’s demands.

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