Manage HR Magazine | Friday, February 11, 2022
Recruitment experts must keep up with recruiting trends in order to fill important skills gaps
FREMONT, CA: At the end of every year, recruitment teams around the world plan their strategies for the next year, addressing key areas such as resolving issues with their hiring processes, revisiting language in job descriptions, re-evaluating talent management, reconsidering what a qualified candidate looks like, and re-evaluating where and how they source top talent. Recruitment experts must keep up with recruiting trends in order to fill important skills gaps. The more willing they are to rethink past ways and comprehend current trends, the better equipped they will be to face difficulties, acquire top personnel, and remain competitive in 2022.
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According to Siddhartha Gupta, CEO of online talent assessment provider Mercer Mettl, the primary trend for recruiting in 2022 will be specificity, or hiring for specific tasks and focusing on the proper profile. This will be achieved through the use of assessment tools, AI, and data analytics. When it comes to hiring, the difficulty has always been that there is no synchronization when it comes to alignment. Companies used to hire people who were a jack of all trades, master of none. Furthermore, there have been instances where a person was employed for one job but ended up doing something else, and was then evaluated using a competency framework that was inappropriate for their profile in the first place.
The employer value offer must alter as employees grow more discerning about their job priorities, needs, and conditions. According to Raunak Bhandari, Regional Program Manager, Organizational Development – APAC at Google, companies should focus on updating brand research and outreach so they can adapt policies, benefits, and messaging to the current market, as well as prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in talent attraction and retention, because the pandemic disproportionately affects minorities groups' labor outcomes.
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