Hiring Trends 2022 – what should be expected?

It’s again the time of the year to bid goodbye to the current year and welcome the new year 2022 with new hopes, adventures, and expectations. While we all look forward to the upcoming year, one of the most prioritized discussions is the 2022 trends for recruitment and talent acquisition.

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, advanced technologies and strategies shaped the business outlook to hire new talents. However, the pandemic wave introduced the future of hiring with new and dynamic work models.

According to research,

• Around 150 million technology-driven jobs will be created in the coming years
• 84% of the employers include remote working in their recruitment strategies

To be precise, the traditional hiring process in India no longer satisfies business and organizations’ current needs and demands. Thus, it is important to understand the latest hiring trends of 2022 to facilitate the hiring process to find the right and suitable candidate for the profile.

Moreover, the constant changes in the job market have urged the need to better understand the hiring trends of 2022. So, are you ready to get a sneak peek at the hiring trends expected in the year 2022?

The expected hiring trends for the year 2022:

1.Virtual hiring:

COVID-19 introduced a new concept of virtual hiring to maintain workflow and productivity. Many reputed organizations adapted to the time-saving and cost-efficient remote hiring process.

Although most organizations returned to work from the office in the second half of 2021, it is quite evident that virtual hiring is here to stay. The year 2020 and 2021 highlighted why hiring is so important on a remote basis; the year 2022 is expected to embrace the virtual hiring trends.

Virtual hiring will help recruiters reach out to a wider pool of talented and deserving candidates without any geographical limitations. In today’s scaling business environment, in-person interviews can consume a lot of time, resources, and recruiters’ efforts, which the much popular virtual hiring trend can save.

2.Prioritized internal hiring:

The year 2021 gave enough time to each one of us to identify our hidden talents and capabilities. In terms of industrial advancement, internal hiring or internal mobility will be one of the popular 2022 trends.

Internal hiring attracts several advantages, such as –

• Better engagement
• Cost-effectiveness
• Improved employee retention
• The faster and advanced hiring process

Internal hiring is seen as a great help to re-skill the contingent talent to move from the traditional static workflow to more dynamic project-based working. Many recruiters understand the importance of internal hiring to get a competitive edge and improve productivity.

3.Hiring for candidates with soft skills:

If there is one thing that the pandemic has taught every one of us is to determine the things that matter the most, either professionally or personally. This mindset shift has elevated the need for soft skills like kindness, empathic behaviour, positivity, resilience, etc.

According to many experts, these essential skills shouldn’t be just considered soft skills but should be considered the determinants of success to secure the future of hiring.

Moreover, as most industries and organizations encourage flexible work conditions, employee diversion, and inclusion, improved work culture, etc., soft skills have become way more than important. Thus, it won’t be wrong to say that hiring a soft-skilled candidate will be amongst the hiring trends of 2022.

4.DE&I driven hiring:

Another important trend dominating the hiring process in India is DE&I, or diversity, equality, and inclusion. According to the hiring experts, candidates now make their decisions based on the evident DE&I commitments of the organization. It is observed that the majority of candidates want to join an organization with a visible commitment towards diversity and inclusion.

It is expected that the growing awareness about job flexibility and talent availability will continue to attract the need of having diverse work teams in the organization. The diverse work team is known to contribute to better engagement, innovation, creativity, profitability, and improved productivity. 2022 will be the year to reap all these benefits.

5.Talent assessment tools:

Last but not least, the use and dependency of talent assessment tools will be dominant in the year 2022. Many reputed organizations are now investing in the leading talent assessment tools to remove partiality and biases from the recruitment process.

Also, the scenario demonstrates why hiring is so important using these assessment tools to assure equitable recruitment activities for a balanced cultural fit.

Conclusion:

The 2022 trends for hiring are all about investing and the practical implementation of advanced hiring technologies. The latest and advanced hiring technologies ensure providing a competitive edge to the organizations by helping to select a suitable candidate amidst the uncertainties, talent shortage, and emerging technologies.

If you need a reliable companion with exhaustive experience and extensive usage of these technologies to find you the right talent, Mount Talent Consulting is your place.

Are you ready to embrace these hiring technologies in the year 2022?

It’s again the time of the year to bid goodbye to the current year and welcome the new year 2022…