The most important HR trends for 2018
There have hardly been any disruptive innovations in HR management in recent years. But digitization is also fundamentally changing human resources management.
The HR trends for 2018 point in a clear direction: Using algorithms and clever tools, HR departments can manage day-to-day business more efficiently and thus gain more time for strategic work. Employees are supported in deploying their resources immediately and ever more precisely when and where they are needed. On-demand recruiter Coople has identified the most important work trends for the next year.
Trend 1: Targeted personnel deployment thanks to predictive work scheduling
In a nutshell, predictive work scheduling means that staff schedules can be planned precisely using self-learning algorithms: Staff assignments can be planned precisely using self-learning algorithms that calculate future schedules from existing data. To do this, the computer is fed as much data as possible from a specific period in the past. For example, sales, weather, number of customers/guests per day, number of employees deployed and whatever else was relevant for the company in question. Based on this data, future staff deployment for a similar time period can then be calculated more accurately than ever before. Predictive work scheduling is already being used today, for example, in the retail trade and in aviation for ground personnel.
Trend 2: Mutual evaluation by employer and employee thanks to online feedback
Gone are the days when performance appraisals were solely in the hands of employers via job references. For a long time now, employees have also been expressing their opinions about their employers - even in public via portals such as kununu or Glassdoor. On-demand providers like Coople go one step further. There, it is even compulsory for employees and employers to rate each other via app after every job assignment. In this way, the black sheep on both sides are pushed out of the job market when future job offers are made.
Trend 3: HR bots search the web for talent
This trend was already announced by many large companies in 2016, but is only now slowly gaining momentum: HR bots are designed to help companies recruit new employees. The digital helpers search through CVs on the networking portals, compare them with the open positions in the company and provide a pre-selection. Bots can also already take the next step in relieving the HR department: They chat with the candidates and further narrow down the field of candidates based on initial clarifications.
Trend 4: Digital skills will be part of the educational backpack in the future
Being able to program, handle artificial intelligence or learn virtual reality technologies - all of these will soon be part of the job profile for future employees. Lifelong learning, anyway. Online courses are therefore in vogue and are being developed in collaboration with leading technology companies, such as at https://de.udacity.com/.
Source and further information: www.coople.com
