Manage HR Magazine | Thursday, May 27, 2021
Companies can now avoid the time-consuming process of hiring people, administering personality tests, and sifting through numerous CVs.
Fremont, CA: While the pandemic wreaked havoc on the economy, it also provides the opportunity for the HR industry to advance by forcing companies to rethink hiring and human resource management to fit the future workplace.
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Let’s check few technology trends in the HR sector:
Companies have had to provide software, remote working tools, and networking tools to their employees. While existing tools such as Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, Zoom, and Skype have proven effective, newer innovation is on the horizon that will boost productivity and engagement. Emotion AI can be useful to rate the efficiency of meetings based on body language and facial expressions.
Recruitment is an essential component of any business process, or the appropriate hires evaluate a team's performance. Hiring is adapting to newer technologies and platforms as workplaces move to remote locations. While there were many job losses at the start of the pandemic, as the economy improved, hiring activities increased. Nevertheless, deciphering behavioral responses based on a candidate's expression and body language remains a challenge in the absence of face-to-face interactions. While developing video interviewing software by companies such as LinkedIn Jobs, the emotional quotient and human element is also lacking.
That's where Emotion AI comes in—it's a dynamic tool that forces companies to rethink their biases, methods, and screening procedures. Facial recognition, candidate evaluations, eye tracking, brainwave mapping, video interviews, and emotion tracking will all soon be commonplace in the recruitment process. Remote interviews will remain, as they do not save time and money for both recruiters and candidates by eliminating the need to commute. Companies can now avoid the time-consuming process of hiring people, administering personality tests, and sifting through numerous CVs.
Employers want to maintain track of their employees' work and their productivity quotient, and how they react to different types of work, announcements, and changes. Whereas remote working will remain, employees are becoming increasingly lonely, causing productivity to suffer. Tracking software can aid in the collaborative completion of tasks, leading to a higher productivity ratio.
Face-to-face video conferencing will only be overtaken by the more immersive experiences using virtual and mixed reality technologies. Working from home, evaluating qualified candidates, onboarding employees remotely, keeping employees involved with the company's culture, and eliminating biases in hiring and appraisals will be conceivable with virtual reality.
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