The transformation of recruitment in Mexico: Trabajo en Digital

• 97% of Mexican millennials think that business success should be measured in terms of something more than their financial performance.

Mexico City, October 24, 2018 .– Mexico is going through an unemployment crisis and a reduction in workers’ wages according to the OECD’s Employment Outlook 2018 report. The study indicates that although the unemployment rate fell to 3.4% in the last quarter of 2017, it is a reflection of the lack of an unemployment insurance system and the high incidence of informal employment, since more than half of workers, employees and independents, are in the category of informal employment.

On the other hand, Deloitte’s most recent report on Human Capital Trends 2018, points out that 97% of Mexican millenials think that business success should be measured in terms of more than their financial performance, and that young people are actively questioning fundamental premises of corporate behavior and the social and economic pricipalities that guide it.

In relation to the previous points, Rodrigo Pérez Delgado, CEO and Founder of Trabajo en Digital, points out that “companies have to transform the way they recruit personnel for their jobs to increase the number of employees committed to the mission of the company. company, and at the same time, reduce unemployment and informality rates in our country. ”

“An effective way to achieve this,” the executive continues, “is through attracting the indicated talent by calculating a percentage of compatibility between the professionals and the vacancies postulated, because in this way, the higher the compatibility index, the greater the the possibilities of generating long-term labor relations. ”

Transform the processes of recruitment, urgency of the companies
Recruitment processes currently take between 3 and 6 months before hiring, due to the time that human resources departments must invest in filtering between 200 and 300 CVs for each vacancy they post.

A study of Trabajo en Digital reported that for the first quarter of 2018, more than 370 thousand vacancies from all areas had been published in three of the main online job boards of our country, among which, at least 60 thousand 700 corresponded to the creative, digital and technological sectors.

When comparing these data with the results of the unemployment rate at the end of the first quarter of 2018 of the ENOE, which shows a total of more than 800 thousand unemployed people with higher and middle level education, it is observed that the number of vacancies is less than the number of possible candidates for such jobs.

Companies can contribute to reducing this gap by transforming the way they carry out their recruitment processes. Trabajo en Digital calculates the percentage of compatibility between the vacancies and the professionals by means of an algorithm that contraposes in real time the profile of the professional with the requirements requested by the company.

The professional registers his data inside the platform indicating his academic level, experience, abilities, aptitudes, languages ​​that he dominates, location, age, salary range wished and possibilities to travel. According to these factors, the platform will present the vacancies with which your profile is more compatible.

In the same way, the company indicates to the platform which of those factors have a higher priority for the company, and when viewing the list of postulates, they will also be sorted by percentage of compatibility.

This simple system can prevent a frequent situation for recruiters during the filtering of candidates, where many of the curriculums they review belong to candidates who do not cover the profile by any factor, be it the experience, the type of career, the age, and Even the salary range, and professionals will see immediately that vacancies are more attractive for them according to how compatible they are with the company and the position that is offering it.