MAY 2023HR TECH OUTLOOK 19RE-EMERGED TRENDSIN THE DYNAMIC WORLD OF RECRUITMENT INDUSTRYMirela Vasile, HR Director, People Enablement & Digitization, SynamediaByCXOInsightsThe 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 adaptability 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 Mirela Vasile
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