Digital transformation is more about people, and less about technology. On the contrary, the intelligent human brain is irrelevant if it cannot team up with innovative technology.
Thus, when leaders think about investing in technology, they should first think about investing in the team that can make that technology useful. Businesses can buy any technology, but the ability to adapt to an ever more digital future depends on developing the next generation of skills.
For Future-proofing businesses potential, closing the gap is must between talent supply and demand. The talent management ecosystem has undergone an expedited transformation.
Screening to skilling, tech is integral to talent management at every step of the way. Tech Recruiting trends are Remote work, candidate-driven market, and automation. With candidates and recruiters scattered around the world, sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding, it has all come to depend on technology.
Data-Driven Hiring
Leaders need to use real-time analytics like pipeline growth metrics, offer acceptance rates (by team, department, and location), quality and cost of new hires, and candidate feedback scores—to help them reduce/eliminate manual work, and improve in critical areas and hire the best talent.
Candidate Driven Market
Simply dangling a competitive pay package will not cut it anymore. Utilize data-driven recruiting to find out what candidates look for in an ideal job role. Is it work-life balance, a healthy company culture, remote work options, or investment in learning and development? Recruiters and hiring managers need to get creative to stand out from the crowd and attract the cream of the crop.
Top Emerging Technologies
Before discussing the Top Emerging technologies, every organisation need to be prepared with the solutions for the below mentions challenges:
- How to align strategy with the changing expectations of candidates?
- How to cope with constant disruption in technologies every year?
- What are the critical touchpoints, which require attention across the employee lifecycle?
Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2022
Top tech skills that will witness the highest demand for the year 2022 and beyond:
Cloud Computing
According to McKinsey, “Organizations around the world will be looking to hire or reskill at least one million new cloud developers over the next three years.”
A cloud computing specialist helps companies migrate their information and services into the cloud. It is essential that there is no interruption in services during this migration. You will help ensure this by analyzing a company’s needs and helping them select the appropriate cloud technology.
Your responsibilities may involve providing design input, collaborating with customer service and analysts on project milestones, analyzing weaknesses, and recommending system improvements. As a cloud computing specialist, you must also be able to effectively weigh the potential risks of IT solutions against a company’s IT needs.
The primary focus will be on talented professionals like cloud architects, administrators, and other cloud specialists.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Related Technologies Experts
According to PwC, “AI could contribute up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030. Of this, $6.6 trillion is likely to come from increased productivity.” Companies must augment their talent pools with skilled AI experts to harness this opportunity.
Companies must augment their talent pools with skilled AI experts to harness this opportunity.
App Developers
The widespread adoption of smartphones has catalyzed the pervasive proliferation of applications like mobile banking, online shopping, and online government services. Mobile applications enable anytime, anywhere connectivity which leads to rapid service delivery and omnichannel user experience.
As more enterprises make their services accessible through mobile devices, they will need to hire talented individuals proficient in Android/iOS development, UI/UX development, full-stack application development, and so on.
Blockchain Framework Professionals
As defined by IBM, “blockchain is a shared, immutable ledger that facilitates the process of recording transactions and tracking assets in a business network.” Blockchain technology can help deploy new and disruptive business models, especially for banks and finance companies.
Gartner estimates that blockchain will generate $3.1 trillion in new business value by 2030. Enterprises are already implementing blockchain solutions like smart contracts and shared ledgers.
The steady adoption of blockchain technology in the future will lead to a rise in demand for blockchain developers, blockchain architects, and UX/UI blockchain designers.
UX (User Experience) Designers
A user experience (UX) designer makes sure a product is learnable and usable for the end-user. A UX designer works from the very beginning of any product process to ensure product teams are building products that are conscious of their users, their needs, and pain points.
A UX designer works with branding, navigation, content, and product functions to ensure all of these elements are tied together to create an end result that’s joyful and fluid.
A Forrester report highlights how a well-designed user interface could raise your website’s conversion rate by up to 200%, and a better UX design could yield conversion rates up to 400 percent.
As more organizations undertake digital transformation, new operational requirements will emerge, leading to new technological breakthroughs. Hence, organizations and tech professionals need to stay open to emerging ideas and keep innovating to succeed in their respective journeys.
