With 2021 upon us, employer brand strategy has once again taken center stage, and how companies can adapt their strategies to cater to the imminent future has become an important matter of discussion.
In this virtual session, we arrive at an understanding of the unique nature of Singapore’s labor market and how it is poised in 2021 through Indeed Hiring Lab Insights.
The slight but consistent decline in unemployment has not reversed losses from the pandemic, but suggests that the government's plans to slowly reduce hiring support this year will not be too risky.
The funding led by Japanese human resources management firm PERSOL Holdings. Other participants included returning investors Monk’s Hill Ventures, Fresco Capital, Mindworks Ventures, Wavemaker Partners, Flipkart Co-founder Binny Bansal, and former Goldman Sachs TMT China head and partner Xiaoyin Zhang.
Cultural fit—the ability to work well with the people a candidate is joining—is a real priority even in a talent-strapped sector like tech, and this means assessing and training for soft skills. Agatha Soh, Regional Head of People at Shopee, shares a bit about what this might mean in practice.
Figures from Mercer show that Hong Kong employers know what skills they want, but most are not actually prioritizing investment in those skills and may consider reskilling a nice-to-have rather than a critical strategy.
Employers and candidates alike have had to become accustomed to virtual hiring in the past year. How much of a game changer is it really, though? People Matters asked a number of hiring managers about their experience.
Harnessing the power of an existing workforce by reskilling and upskilling has indeed become one of the hallmarks of a successful company as we march forward in the new normal.
As we see the economy moving towards recovery, companies will look at a strategy that will ensure retaining existing talent and hiring talent to bridge the skill gap, especially specialised talent in certain key growing areas in technology and healthcare.
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