5 Top Hiring Trends

Video Interviewing: 2014 was the year when video interviewing became popular with organisations. A lot of them have started using multiple formats of video interviews like Asynchronous interview, Live Interviews and Video Proctored written assessments. Some used it for Campus Hiring while others use it for hiring distributed sales force or large scale lateral hiring.

Social Media in Hiring: 2014 was the year where a large number of recruiters started using Linkedin and Facebook for serious hiring. Job portals started feeling really threatened by Linkedin and the likes. Today almost all the majors recruiters have paid accounts in Linkedin along with Naukri or Monster.

New sectors: This year we also saw emerging sectors like e-commerce and Internet Economy companies becoming favourites among candidates. Senior and middle level employees flocked to companies like Flipkart, Amazon, Olacabs, Zomato etc.

Expats: While it started a few years back, this year we saw a lot of them joining across levels and roles. Unlike the previous years where this was driven by lack of job opportunities abroad, there is demand for people with cross geographical or niche experiences and they are motivated by the opportunity here.

Start ups: 2014 also saw lot of startups with interesting models in recruitment domain. This varied from referral hiring platforms, social media management for hiring and niche databases/portals. With the talent pool increasing in size day by day unique challenges and solutions are also emerging.

— With inputs from Sanjoe Jose, Co-Founder and CEO, Talview.com.

Skills sought by employers in 2014

• Skills around science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and data dominated the Indian landscape in 2014, particularly those relating to data storage, retrieval and analysis as organisations across a broad range of industries seek to harness the benefits of big data.
• Skills in cloud and distributed computing, PR and communications and network and information security.
• Economics, mobile development, digital and online marketing, game development and market research and insights.