Demand for the best resources and higher skills raises a talent war among organizations. The hiring landscape of previous year was incredibly competitive. It observed a shortfall of IT talent and sky-rocketing salaries for in-demand roles. Such trends are likely to traverse through next year too as recruiters continue to adapt to the high-demand but low supply hiring landscape.
What Hiring Trends Can Help You Win The Talent War?
Candidate and Employee Experiences
Companies have always created marketing experiences for customers. Same hiring managers can do for prospects to delight them and increase loyalty. With the talent war approaching a new high, it is extremely important for companies to develop experiences for both candidates and employees. The companies that are able to provide a better candidate and employee experience as compared to others. So these companies are more likely to win the talent war.
Gig Economy
Companies need to get creative in looking for candidates in different markets because the pool of IT talent in specific geographic settings could easily run dry. Unfortunately, many of the desired candidates will be unable to relocate in such an event. That’s why, it is estimated to witness an increase in rather flexible staffing arrangements, tele-commuting, freelancing, and contract staffing by IT recruiting firms to fill out vital positions.
In the contemporary times, companies across all industries are likely to seek assistance in spotting IT candidates who can adapt or adjust to flexible staffing arrangements. In fact, many developers are inclined towards the concept of gig economy; freelancing their services under contract staffing arrangements.
Blended Workforce
The gig economy has become a major trend impacting the global workforce and has created a new kind of diversity. Nowadays, full-time permanent employees are working side by side with freelancers. More and more companies now hire on-demand to solve key problems and cut costs by removing healthcare coverage, and other employee benefits; hence, more freelancers, and full-time workers will need to work together. With many freelancers working at remote offices, the ability to manage without borders is going to become a pivotal skill globally in winning the talent war.
In-demand Skills
Employers are willing to offer great compensation for candidates who possess programming and software development skills. Other highly valued skills that make candidates stand out are cybersecurity and cloud technology.
Specific in-demand skills are greatly acknowledged for their significance in digital transformation, and as such, an IT staffing trend to be aware of is focusing on landing candidates who possess these skills and retaining them.
Increased Importance of Online Profiles and Code Examples
Hiring managers are paying great attention to potential employees LinkedIn pages, GitHub accounts, and other relevant portfolios. IT professionals are fully aware of this and are stepping up their online profiles to give employers insights about their abilities beyond their resume.
Restructuring of Organizations
One of the admirable trends is the emphasis of organizations on teamwork regardless of the employment situation. While individuals have their own career plans, companies now structure employees in teams for enhanced productivity. Moreover, companies believe high performing teams will enable them to compete for the future hiring landscape.
Passive Candidates
Employers working with recruitment agencies will have a distinct advantage because IT recruiters know how to reach out to both active and passive candidates. The passive candidates are appreciative of companies that engage them on their terms.
Tech savvy recruiters can harness the power of AI and bots to streamline much of the tedious aspects of their job. This will free up time for developing relationships and forming better bonds with candidates and clients.
The good news is that this will lead to better performance from recruiters. Their time will free up so that they can really get to know the intricacies of clients and candidates and focus on the human requirement of recruiting.
Offering Better Work-life Balance
The independent contracting has become greatly embedded with our job economy landscape. Particularly when it comes to IT jobs, employees have become more concerned about work-life balance.
Traditional hiring managers in large businesses have a more established corporate workflow that could consume huge time to change. The rocketing demand for today’s IT talent requires more flexibility than the normal corporate settings.
Adapting to the challenges
Ample job opportunities and a lack of qualified candidates defined the IT market in 2017. The same is expected in 2018. However, these IT hiring trends are emerging to help attract top technical talent. So, 2018 will be yet another competitive year for companies that need to hire IT professionals.
In such competitive environment, RecruitBPM’s applicant tracking system can greatly lend a helping hand to the recruiters in winning the talent war.
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