For decades, an ideal job has been considered to be a full-time, 9 to 5 job with benefits. But this ideal is now being deconstructed to fit the new skill economy with new expectations.
In our recent webinar on the do’s and don’ts of the technical hiring with Valerie Rothlin-Fenton, Fujitsu’s Senior Technical Recruiter, we ran a quick poll.
In a report published in 2019 by IBM, it was reported that the average cost of a single data breach is over USD 3.92 million.
We read every day that we’re in the fourth wave of Industrial Revolution, and businesses are adapting and changing by the minute to thrive in this new dynamic. Technology has become an essential component of every business, including HR.
Just a decade earlier, storing and maintaining data was a nightmare: there weren’t enough processes, inadequate infrastructure, and the lack of technological know-how to create that data into valuable information. However, with rapid technological advancements, we now live in a data rich environment. Around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is generated and processed every day. Even the AI/ML algorithms have matured slowly to process this data. Therefore, it only seems fitting that data science is a job that has observed a high demand in the market lately.
In today’s time recruitment has become more data-driven than ever. While it is an important element, recruiters can end up spending a lot of their time viewing, monitoring, and analyzing data from different channels within a software. To help recruiters get more value from their data and make smarter hiring decisions, we have introduced Recruiter Dashboard. Using the recruiter dashboard, you will be able to get the pulse of all your hiring data at any given moment.
In this Q&A, Violeta Matei, Business Operations Manager at Kambr, speaks about the challenges HR teams can expect amidst the COVID pandemic. She explains how to cope with them to ensure an able and productive workforce and thriving in effecting continuity, all great tips for these times. Born and raised in Bucharest, Romania, Violeta has over 7 years experience as an HR Specialist, with companies such as Société Générale and IBM. This interview has been edited for clarity and context.
90% of CEOs believe that digital transformation (DX) will impact their industry, but less than 15% are executing a digital strategy right now. While such slowness and reluctance to adopt would not have had such a huge impact before COVID-19, digital transformation is now no longer a choice, but rather a crucial driver of revenue, efficiency, and growth.
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change” — Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
Work from home is a much-used term these days. Organizations usually have a defined set of processes in place for remote employees and for the one-off instances where a team or department resorts to ‘work-from-home. In fact, this is an option that offers your employees an added flexibility and if research is to be believed, it has also shown higher levels of productivity. Automattic, best known for giving the world WordPress.com, is working on a completely distributed model with employees all over the globe. So yes, there can be a success with remote working models.
We are rapidly moving into an era of using technology in Hiring. More and more companies are adopting pre-employment testing solutions to evaluate candidates efficiently. However, there are still some answer types like descriptive, video responses, creatives like designing, creating power point presentation, and so on that require manual evaluation.
