We all understand that disruptive technologies today determine the direction of business development and change the way we live, work, and manage teams. Increasingly, people communicate with algorithms, applications, and artificial intelligence that solves everyday issues, such as calling a contact center. Even though HR has always been a person-to-person profession, today, there is a clear trend towards a change in the primary paradigm of HR. Innovative robotic HR platforms will soon change the lives of company employees and our understanding of working with them forever. In this article, we have collected the main digital trends that are urging the evolution of the hiring process.
The trend towards reengineering of the corporate training system
According to current research, a very busy worker can devote about 30 minutes a week to learning and development. This means that training should be as efficient and fast as possible. When it comes to maximum efficiency, it makes sense to focus on personalized learning – learning that adapts to the employee’s unique needs. All the extra heap of information (that has already been learned and will never be helpful) should be excluded from the educational product. Today’s main task is not to force a person to undergo training, be it motivational programs or gamification, but to be at the right time in the right place with an educational product, adjusting to the needs and requests of employees.
The trend is to attract an outsourcing company providing services to small and medium-sized businesses.
Companies are increasingly turning to the Professional Employer Organization (PEO) to increase productivity and profitability, focus on their core mission, and grow. What is a PEO? Using PEO can potentially save time and staff that will be used to prepare payment plans and benefits management and can reduce legal or employee obligations that it would otherwise have. Some PEOs offer payroll outsourcing as well. PEO services can benefit organizations of different sizes and in different industries, from large enterprises to startups.
All organizations should highly consider making use of such services if they are interested in getting an extra hand in helping them with recruitment or with their global expansion in general. Your location doesn’t matter, these recruitment companies operate from anywhere, for instance, PEO Canada, PEO India, PEO Japan, and so on.
Remote interpreting trend as one of the digital tools
Today’s world events are fundamentally changing the way we communicate and do business with each other. The translation industry is also redefining traditional models. Today, people can often be present at a foreign event being held. Therefore, the demand for remote interpreters has increased. Fortunately, modern technology allows for remote interpreting and translation. Distance is not a barrier to communication today.
Recruiting breakthrough innovation trend
Recruiting is still the leader in digital investment. Companies in pursuit of the perfect employee continue to use increasingly sophisticated search tools. It is an automated search through social networks to find all traces of a candidate on the Internet: from professional communities, Instagram, FB, etc. And a variety of gamification tools in selecting candidates, the automation of resume scoring, and the use of chatbots when communicating with applicants.
Performance monitoring trend
Thanks to digital technology, companies can conduct performance assessments more than once a year, more than once a month, once a week, and sometimes on a pulse basis if needed. HR analytics is becoming an indispensable management tool for understanding how work is being done. Thanks to this, the efficiency of existing business processes increases, new ones are built. The organizational structure is finally becoming a mechanism for formalizing business initiatives, reflecting the real structure of interaction in the organization, taking into account the most complex and most effective collaborations.
Productivity trend
As much as we discuss the digital revolution nowadays, the automation trend has been strong for several years. Moreover, according to Deloitte estimates, today, still 45% of companies say that automation will become one of the priority areas of development in the future. At the same time, according to research data, as noted by the same Deloitte, an employee spends 25% of his working time on email, electronic notifications, notifications, on average checks the phone 150 times a day during the day, is connected to a large number of digital gadgets: smartwatches, computer, iPad, smartphone, etc. With such a leap in digitalization, there is no giant leap in productivity. And this is not surprising. The worker is under tremendous digital pressure. Burnout is more relevant than ever.
Conclusion
Modern globalization trends, mobility, business going online, high competition, high speed in business – all require companies to transition to a new networked digital economy. The coming Digital Revolution certainly involves revising the rules of doing business, new management models that provide productivity, innovation, flexibility, and adaptability come into competition. And the foundation for this transition is the transformation of human resources. A successful digitalization experience is achieved only by a close-knit team. At the same time, HR often becomes a driver of changes in organizations since, by introducing digital technologies, we continue to work with people and for people.
