Here is your February guide to the latest in recruitment trends, technology, and industry insights! Each month, we highlight the biggest news affecting the
EXPLORING NEW AVENUES TO FILL DATA SCIENTIST ROLES
According to LinkedIn, data scientists saw a 56% increase in job openings in the US over the past year. While employment demand is high, a recent report by Indeed shows job searches for Data Science rose by approximately 14%, outpacing the growth of jobs in that market.
The tech shortage has led companies to look beyond traditional markers of intellect, such as academic pedigree, and place greater consideration on a candidate’s skills and abilities. This strategy increases the pool of talent and also broadens the scope of candidates, accounting for diversity of learning and life experiences.
The shortage has also spurred other alternative approaches for finding tech talent, such as IBM’s two-pronged initiative. In an effort to increase the pool of available data scientists, the company has partnered with The Open Group to develop a certification and an industry-wide agreement for assessing data scientists. Also, as a part of their “New Collar” program, IBM developed a Data Science Apprenticeship, offering 24 months of training to job candidates who might not have a college degree. https://www.ciodive.com/news/ibms-data-scientist-certification-program-works-to-fill-talent-drought/547531/ ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
AN INCREASE IN HR TECH STARTUPS
The advent of HR tech advancements has changed the candidate process, moving from the era of faxed resumes to online applications. This has increased the volume of applications recruiters must wade through in an effort to find the right hire.
There has been an increase in companies touting AI and Automated solutions to this efficiency challenge, with many of the tech startups offering unique angles to add value beyond
ADVANCEMENTS IN TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY
In our increasingly global and multilingual world, the ability to communicate across languages is core to our daily lives—and Google’s 100 billion word Super Bowl commercial will make you a believer.
Beyond simple phrases, translating complex information (e.g., careers content) has been difficult to accomplish at scale while ensuring accuracy. With the evolution of AI technology, companies such as @LiltHQ have developed an offering with a human-assisted AI model that improves the speed of translation without sacrificing quality.
The Lilt tool is a human-machine partnership with a real-time feedback loop. The system provides human translators predictive suggestions for the next sentence or paragraph—as a reference for structure, tense, idiom and so on—and the translators provide feedback back to the system.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/lilt-is-building-a-machine-translation-business-with-humans-at-the-core/ ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
THE MACHINES ARE COLLUDING
In a Singularity-esque (nerd alert!) twist on the concept of value-based pricing, researchers in Italy observed pricing algorithms colluding with each other. Specifically, “[the algorithms] learned to respond to one another’s behavior and quickly pulled the price of goods above where it would have been had either operated alone.”
While this issue has not yet played out in the consumer marketplace, the study’s broader point of algorithmic collusion towards a single result could be applied to other multi-point AI-driven decision-making processes that impact the recruitment sector.
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/612947/pricing-algorithms-can-learn-to-collude-with-each-other-to-raise-prices/ ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
ROUNDING OUT THE SCOOP: PSYCH, SOCIAL, LABOR AND TECH
- Ghosting in recruitment has been on the rise, with 14% of candidates versus 20% of employers believing it is reasonable to cut off communications in final phase of the hiring process. As a result, employers have been considering two candidates for an open role and looking towards building stronger personal relationships earlier in the process. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/corporate-ghosting-cappelli-finkelman/
- US companies will soon be able to broadcast real-time video via LinkedIn live video. https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/linkedin-debuts-linkedin-live-a-new-live-video-broadcast-service/
- The next innovation in in-store advertising: pharmacy refrigerator doors equipped with cameras and sensors can determine a shopper’s gender, general age range, products viewed, duration of purchase, and emotional response to a particular product and use this information to serve targeted ads. The future of engaging brand loyalists with job opportunities may be closer than we think. https://www.fastcompany.com/90302382/its-not-just-google-or-facebook-the-freezer-aisle-is-ad-targeting-you-too
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