2021 China Recruitment Trends II : Higher recruitment requirements abd Enterprise Digitization

3.  Corporate recruitment has significantly raised the skill requirements for talents

Under the dual impacts of the epidemic and the accelerated digital transformation of enterprises, employers' requirements for the quality of talents are increasing significantly, and their requirements for vocational skills are taking sharp changes. Talent screening and evaluation have officially shifted from “condition-driven” to “skill-driven”.

With the blurring of industry boundaries, the demand for compound talents is constantly sinking from senior management and technical positions to middle-level positions, and even some entry-level positions and new occupations. This kind of compound talent in the workplace is called "Generalist" by researchers.

From a job perspective, for professional and technical positions driven by hard skills, the probability of multi-skilled talents getting feedback from employers is 60% higher than that of single-skilled job seekers. The high-end positions that have always preferred compound talents have more significant requirements for comprehensive skills. In 2020, more than 50% of directors and above senior positions require candidates to master more than ten vocational skills, which can be described as a true "decathlon."

4.   What kind of competitive abilities do employers most want talents to improve?

If digital skills and professional skills are important conditions for impacting high-paying jobs, then quality skills affect the upper limit of everyone's career development.

Deductive reasoning ability is what employers value most in the past two years. In 2020. More than 50% of positions require more than 3 points for this ability. Product managers, algorithm engineers, machine learning engineers, strategy consultants and other occupations generally score more than 4.5 points for deductive reasoning. The underlying meta-skill of this quality is logical ability. Question sensitivity and inductive reasoning ability rank second and third respectively.

At the same time, this recruitment survey shows that teamwork, interpersonal communication and coordination, stress resistance and emotional management are the three qualities employers most hope that candidates and employees can improve. For three consecutive years, these three items have been among the top five employers' demands, and they have received more attention in 2020.

5.   Basic View: Digitization is the inevitable choice for business growth

In 2020, more and more companies have truly realized that digitalization is a necessary option for the development of modern enterprises. Therefore, they have begun to pay more attention to the construction and operation of digital systems, and more actively use data to drive decision-making.

Our recruitment data predicts that the core positions of digital construction, such as database administrators, data architects, cloud computing architects, etc., will increase in demand by 78% year-on-year in 2020, and the average recruitment salary will increase by 12% year-on-year.

In 2020, Beijing has the deepest benches in digital technology talents of the country. Beijing’s demand for digital technology talents is as high as 18.5% of the total demand. Due to the huge base, the year-on-year growth rate of digital technology talent demand is also significantly lower than the national average. And the talents’ growth rate is relatively low. Because of the covid-19 outbreak, Wuhan’s demand for digital technology talents is lower than the national level, while the demand for such talents in Foshan and Dongguan has increased significantly.

In May 2020, McKinsey & Company offered suggestions for a 90-day plan to realign the digital agenda. It can be roughly segmented into three 30-day sprint: "Identify where to digitalize → Deploy new models → Upskill organization by digitalization".

However, 90 days is clearly not enough to deploy full-scale digital working-models and managerial decision models at the organization level to improve the agility and adaptability of the organization. According to our survey, only 29.2% of the companies agrees that they "have sound coworking space and remote-working models."

Part II Ends.

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