The workplace and the workforce are witnessing a drastic change with the advent of newer trends to be emerging out in the process of recruitment.
The old-school hiring processes are now getting successfully replaced by efficient and extensively researched modern methodologies.
To arm the existing recruitment process of your company with the latest ‘weapons’ of modern methodologies and hottest trends that are prevalent in the hiring processes, we bring to you the top 4 futuristic trends in recruitment that has a long-term effect in the workplaces.
- Flexibility in Work Life
Employees are demanding super-flexible work hours, and show up a more loyal attitude towards the organizations that cater to the demand for flexible work hours.
LinkedIn stated that there has been a sharp increase of 78% in job positions that offer work flexibility to their employees.
The work from home or remote work, aka ‘pajama culture’ is the coolest culture in the workplace. With various industries offering flexibility to its employees, the tech industry is the top ranking among all.
The perks of work flexibility include a balanced time for work and personal life for the employees and decrease the employee tendency of job-hopping.
This also helps in attracting a huge pool of good talents for joining the organization that offers flexible work hours to its workforce.
LinkedIn came up with the statistics that 36% of women, over 29% of men consider work flexibility as one of the priorities before choosing a job.
- Harassment-Free Workplace
Ensuring a safe work environment attracts more candidates, and enhances work productivity.
75% of the talent professionals admitted that the tendency to raise the voice against harassment has increased.
The highlighting of the existing policies like the zero-tolerance against harassment, conduct training sessions are some of the most common anti-harassment measures being practiced in the workplace.
LinkedIn stated that the Asia-Pacific region is involved in most of the actions undertaken against harassment, followed by Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Latin America, and North America.
- Attempt to Make the Payments Transparent
Making the pay transparent, assists in building a trusted relationship between the employers and the employees. The transparency boosts the employees’ morale and triggers their retention in the firm.
The employers need to break through the stereotypical thinking of payments to be considered highly private information, and allow the employees to get cleared of how well are they paid, inculcating the notion that they are not at all underpaid.
The organizations are afraid of the disputes and chaos that may break out by sharing the salary range and information. But, in actuality, the perks of sharing the salaries are so much that the recruitment process is hugely benefited by assuring unbiased pays across races and genders.
- Soft-Skills
Soft-Skills never go out of fashion.
With all the hard skills witnessing rapid advancements and constantly changing trends, the soft skills remain to be in constant demand throughout the years.
The soft skills as creativity, adaptability, management of time, persuasion, and collaboration are the most sought-after soft skills in the workplace.
Most of the talent professionals (92%) say that soft skills need to be considered more than hard skills during the recruitment process. Whereas, 89% of the talent professionals consider a lack of soft-skills in the hiring pool, to be the prime reason for bad recruitment and poor employees.