APRIL 2024HR TECH OUTLOOK EUROPE8In MyOpinionRE-EMERGED TRENDS IN THE DYNAMIC WORLD OF RECRUITMENT INDUSTRYMirela Vasile, HR Director, People Enablement & Digitization, SynamediaByThe world of work is changing, enabled by technology and now the pandemic disrupting everything and accelerating change at a pace never seen before. Recruitment has taken front row being impacted in a very direct and abrupt away. As one of the most dynamic areas of the People function, it had to go through a steep curve adapting to the new ways of working.The impact that the pandemic had on the job market around the world created challenges in the go-to-market approach. As the world changed, so did the job market and the recruiting process alongside. It happened almost overnight, and recruiters had to find a way to adapt as fast as they could through openness and eagerness to learn, exploring other ways to approach recruitment and embracing the unknown. Who would have thought before we can do interview and hire exclusively remote?The need for adapt ability has been one of the biggest trends emerging in the last two years and will continue to be so. Lots of companies were talking about embracing change and agile ways of working before the pandemic, but when faced with uncertainty and prospects of everything shutting down, many had to act on what does this means for them, their business and industry.This volatile environment created an unprecedented challenge to businesses all around the globe, with their multi-layers of inter-connections, dependencies as we operate in a connected and global landscape thus having to mitigate and prevent a domino effect type of risk. Just think of how challenging onboarding new people started to be when we moved completely to virtual hiring. Having to ship equipment, coordinate logistically the tasks of different departments all working remotely proven to be quite a task at the beginning until a sort of mechanism emerged to keep things afloat.The adaptability trend also created a different kind of opportunities, explored by very few up to this point. With so many people impacted by the job loss across industries directly affected by the forced shutdowns, the talent pool available on the market grew exponentially. Companies that continued to hire or increased their hiring needs, seized this unprecedented opportunity, and took an out of the box approach, looking for skills to be reconverted for their open roles, rather than the more conventional check box job match approach.Candidates also became more flexible on their requirements, open to explore convergent areas to their established domain expertise, often considering total reconversion. The skills reconversion is another big trend on the rise in many industries and skilled recruiters that know what is Mirela Vasile
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