The clock is ticking as the time-to-hire the perfect candidate continues to increase in every industry.
As the demand for software developers continues to outpace supply, companies are increasingly focused on attracting and retaining top talent. But what does it take to hire skilled developers?
Are you looking to hire savvy developers? As a tech recruiter, you must follow a candidate-driven approach to hiring the right talent for your organization. That's when developer assessment tools come in. It helps recruiters streamline the technical hiring process and makes everything easier.
Acquiring the best-suited talent for an organization is the most crucial yet arduous task. And who does that? The HR management solely. Due to this, HR professionals face immense pressure to find, connect and acquire candidates to fill open positions for their organizations.
The UK IT sector is projected to undergo several recruitment challenges in the coming years. The skills gap is increasing as many sectors fail to attract and retain the talent needed to meet future demand. It is exacerbated by the fact that Brexit would almost certainly result in a shortage of EU employees in the UK.
Would you believe me if I say writing a job description, sorting resumes, finding red flags in CVs, aligning potential candidates, and all other screening tasks require almost no human intervention?
Technical skills assessments have revolutionized the process of hiring the right candidates at the right time. Using advanced technical screening tools, recruiters can now evaluate the potential and aptitude of candidates accurately. In fact, many recruiters (75%) expect skill-based hiring to take a front seat in the next 18 months.
A recruiter not only wants to attract the most acceptable candidates for an open position but also aims to make the process as smooth as possible for both parties. But in today’s highly competitive job market, the talent acquisition process needs to be fast, efficient, and thoroughly streamlined.
Market research evaluates and segments the worldwide developer population at 24.5 million. This number is estimated to reach 28.7 million in the upcoming years. Moreover, with the great migration, there is no dearth of candidates, but finding the right ones for you can still be an uphill task.
Traditionally, pre-employment assessments were manual, time-consuming, cost ineffective, and almost always had a tendency to be subjective and biased. They weren’t created keeping a specific job role in mind, so predicting a candidate’s on-the-job performance was impossible with those assessments.
Earlier, the amount of data generated by a company or organization used to be small, and accessing, saving, and processing it using business intelligence tools wasn’t that much of a task. But as time passed, different technologies and modifications came in, and the amount of data increased drastically.
