EU: Commission to launch a platform to facilitate international recruitment for occupations enduring shortages Recruitment Faced with a growing shortage of skilled labour, the EU wants to attract skills from all over the world. To this end,…
Germany: Lufthansa Technik (re)hires its experienced employees Recruitment The Senior Experts@LHT programme, launched in July 2023 by Lufthansa Technik, the maintenance subsidiary of the German airline group Lufthansa Group, seeks to prolong the working life of employees closing in on retirement as well as to hire or rehire senior staff who have recently retired. The programme has been devised as a pilot project that could be rolled out across the entire group.
France: harnessing the technological tools of marketing to address candidate shortages Recruitment Programmatic HR, which helps optimise online recruitment, through automation as well as the use of advertising data, is becoming increasingly popular with companies. For a few years now, several start-ups have been transposing marketing techniques to their recruitment efforts and supporting their HR departments amid a shortage of candidates. Such an approach, however, comes at a cost.
Brazil: ILO and Ministry of Labor launch guide to map job changes Recruitment On 23 March the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and the International Labor Organization (ILO) launched Brazil’s first Guide to Occupations. This online document offers updated quantitative and qualitative information on the characteristics and main indicators of 2,609 occupations currently operating in the local labor market, and provides key data, in particular, for human resources professionals.
Morocco: a new digital platform harnessing AI and data to make the labour market more fluid Recruitment A digital information platform covering the labour market, harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and data, is going to be set up in Morocco, spearheaded by a consortium of private and public actors. This new tool will help inform the decision-making of the various actors in the labour market, in terms of job supply and demand as well as labour market regulation.
Digital tools: when companies offer work experience that is 100% virtual Recruitment Doing an internship at a multinational firm without even leaving the house, and perhaps while still in one’s pyjamas, is now a possibility, thanks to the concept of virtual work experience offered by the Australian start-up InsideSherpa. Since 2017, the company has offered short work experience programmes, exclusively online, at companies from all over the globe. While students see the platform as an unprecedented opportunity to discover large companies and gain experience, employers using this method hope to unearth new talent. Around 30 companies from a variety of sectors – including General Electric, consultancy firms Deloitte and KPMG, as well as Commonwealth Bank, Citibank and JPMorgan Chase&Co – are currently offering these virtual internships.
Opportunities for recruitment and career management being offered by blockchain technology Recruitment In an interview on 04 June with David Green for his website My HR Future, HR Tech advisor, Yvette Cameron shares her vision of blockchain storing and managing data technology as it applies to HR. Planet Labor summarizes her vision below (for the full 38' podcast, click here).
Singapore’s HR Tech boom Recruitment Start-ups are increasingly spawning that seek to use AI to revolutionize the world of work. In the densely populated city-State of Singapore (5.6 million living in 722km²), USD 1.4 billion is being invested in this domain that now counts no less than 200 businesses using AI to provide a range of HR solutions. In contrast with the US and Europe where the focus is on new hiring methods, companies in the ‘fully employed’ region of Asia concentrate more on problems related to staff turnover and training.
India: growth in HR-tech in full swing Recruitment In India, HR technology advances are promising, and notwithstanding the difficulties companies are having in adopting these new advances, start-up companies are busily exploring their potential. As the world gets flatter and homogeneous Generation Ys more prevalent, solutions have become more similar.
Finland: university thesis examines new technology based recruitment methods Recruitment In May 2018, Reija Oksanen at the University of Tampere Faculty of Management presented a Master’s thesis on new technology based recruitment methods that in particular examines those phases in the recruitment process that can use artificial intelligence (AI). The goal of the research is to broaden the knowledge base surrounding new technology based recruitment methods and especially AI and to this end it examined how these new methods were being used within Finland’s Human Resource Management (HRM) community. The research shows that although the HRM community does welcome the possibilities arising from these new methods it also highlights the need to avoid slipping into mechanistic recruitment methods instead of using these new methods to free up more time for human interaction. This however will only be possible if the HRM community fully understands all aspects of these new technologies.
