Big Data - Big Changes!
"Post a job and receive 100 so-so resumes. Post it on social media and you get thousands of so-so resumes."
The words are those of Canadian Elisabeth Williams, President at Candler Chase Consulting. According to her, the future will make recruitment a topic that excludes gut feelings, but is based on big data. Also called Big Data!
While traditional, experienced recruiters base their success on years of knowledge, in-depth market insights, networks and persona expertise, there are limits to their reach and how deep they can dig.
Artificial intelligence and team collaboration
Big Data is huge amounts of data harvested from all sides of the intranet or internet and electronically analyzed to reveal our behaviors and behaviors now and for the future. For example, what useful knowledge for HR is there in the collaboration that employees post online, for example in Trello? Collaboration tools provide a great overview of the department's ongoing projects, tasks can change hands and individual team members can give their input on individual step goals and send them further in the process. But online collaboration is also a wealth of useful data for HR. Data through which HR can gain insight into which teams are working and which are not, and through online collaboration, the introverted employee has a much fairer chance to prove their worth.
Big Data captures Big Talents
Not least, the use of Big Data can help HR to recruit more accurately. For example, it can point the way to the more invisible profiles. The unique experts who rarely flaunt their knowledge on social media, but who can be found in the form of blog posts, lectures, chat rooms or expert advice and pieced together into concrete profiles.
Big Data can also be the way to find those ready for a job change before they even know it. With the tiniest little steps, they start updating their profiles or connecting to people who might be able to take them further - little signs in their online behavior that show a growing curiosity out and away.
Companies insource recruiters
With solutions such as easy application apps or inviting career sites, more and more companies hope to motivate talent to switch jobs. As a result, the insourcing of recruiters is also gaining ground with larger companies. According to the industry report Search and Headhunting 2017 from Supana, services like LinkedIn Recruiters and Google Jobs are disrupting the recruitment industry and giving companies the courage to do the job themselves.
When companies choose to seek help from experienced headhunting or recruitment agencies, they place much higher demands on price and, not least, quality both before and after hiring the new colleague.
On the other hand, recruitment and temping agencies that focus on more niche areas, such as supplying experts for temporary project positions, are gaining momentum. Companies are increasingly looking for experts to solve a temporary task and experts are opting out of stable employment in favor of freelance consulting. This trend is growing rapidly.
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