Posted on : 2024-02-02 03:23:39
Article : Good evening Friday Management TASK 279 --What to consider when recruiting for in-demand skills. HR technology can only solve this situation.
The skillsets required in modern marketing teams have expanded in line with the changing business and consumer landscape. With demand for skilled talent often outstripping supply, there is now greater emphasis on the hiring process.
The working world has been turned on its head with the pandemic- the Great Reshuffle, and the resulting skills shortage. Companies are searching for a powerful, sustainable way to recruit and retain talent, and 73% of them are now opting for skills-based hiring practices. In recruitment, case studies are helpful tools for employers seeking to build, develop, or optimize their recruitment processes. They can be great sources of information and inspiration. By understanding the successes and failures others have had with their hiring processes, hiring managers can take any relevant learnings without having to make the same mistakes that others have.
Using artificial intelligence technology in the recruitment process is essential for companies to stay competitive — especially in the current labor market. AI can help recruit top talent, streamline and personalize the application process for candidates, enhance the employee experience through skills matching and job alerts, save recruiters time to focus on other important tasks, and more.
The 2020s are proving to be a tough time to be a recruiter. In recent years, recruiters and HR leaders faced never-before-imagined challenges as COVID-19 disrupted workplaces, talent shortages grew, global uncertainties multiplied, and ChatGPT raised a host of questions about technology's future role. HR teams will continue to face challenges in the year ahead as they figure out how to use AI tools, how to attract and retain new employees, and how to navigate the tricky issues that a hybrid workforce brings. Understanding important trends in talent acquisition and recruitment -- and where HR technology fits in -- is key to staying competitive. For example, diversity and inclusion and employee wellbeing continue to be critical issues, while the popularity of analytics in HR is spreading to talent acquisition as well. Companies must also focus on candidate experience or risk losing candidates.
Since the hiring frenzy of 2022, hiring trends have normalized, but the need for specialized and high-skill talent remains above pre-pandemic levels and historically elevated. People who possess the most advanced technical skills — especially within the specialties of data science- AI and cloud will be highly sought after for the foreseeable future, especially in the green economy. Demand for project management, finance and customer service professionals has not fallen off the radar as well. Organisations still desperately need people with these skills despite the prospect of automation and AI advancements.
Organizations must bond with people or will have to be ready to see them go. Using the word "bond" is very intentional. Organizations really need bonding and belonging; talent attraction and engagement are not enough anymore. We cannot do things TO people; we need to do things WITH people. Bonding does, in fact it means prioritizing a strong connection with your people — even before you get to work together, even if you never get to work together. You must still build a relationship with talent, a sense of mutual understanding, trust and support.
Whether you’ve stayed in the same career field for decades or hopped around, you’ve likely developed and added to your professional skill set. Some of these skills are job-specific or technical, like understanding how to use certain platforms or tools, but others are transferable skills, such as strong leadership or critical thinking skills.
The pandemic has changed the work world in many ways, some temporary, and some likely permanent. Whether you’re on the hunt for a new position because you have to or because you’ve decided it’s time for a career change, transferable skills can help you land a new job, no matter how “unmatched” your skill set might appear to be. Transferable skills are exactly what they sound like—the skills that you use in every job, no matter the title or the field. Some transferable skills are hard skills, like coding, data analysis, or other technical skills, and some are soft skills like communication and relationship building.
Now briefly knowing something about in-demand skills while recruiting, in our Good Morning Monday Management Solution part we shall discuss more with real time industrial examples with examples. Meanwhile we request to share some of your relevant more valuable inputs so that it widens scope of awareness on the subject. Our Monday morning solution will be posted on 5th Feb 2024.
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