How "Job Listing" Players Play A Role Amid a Pandemic

pandemic "succeed" destroy businesses. Millions of people in Indonesia have lost their jobs. This risk plagues not only blue-collar workers, but also white-collar workers.

This can be seen from several global and local scale companies that carry out massive efficiencies in order to have runway the longer one. All of these affected workers eventually stormed various job vacancies portals (job listings) to continue living.

Previous DailySocial ever discussed how players blue collar job portal play a role to defend the law supply and demand still there. The conditions are not much different from what players take for white-collar workers.

Many are looking for work, while companies are holding back adding new people. This condition is quite reflected in the data JobStreet Indonesia, one of the largest job vacancy site players in Indonesia, in its social media account which was uploaded on August 3. They mentioned:

“Before the pandemic there could be more than 30k vacancies. During the pandemic, there were only around 15k vacancies. Before the pandemic, one job vacancy usually had 400-600 applicants. During the pandemic, one locker could have 2k-3k applicants."

This figure is interesting to explore further and Urbanhire is willing to provide their internal data. To DailySocial, Founder and CEO of Urbanhire Benson Kawengian explained that generally in the third quarter is peak time to start recruiting.

However, the company's internal data for the second quarter shows that the ratio (see graph) has seen a shift in the number of job seekers above the number of jobs available.

“Five months since the start of the pandemic, new job vacancies entering the Urbanhire platform every month are still at quite low numbers. "This is very different from the beginning of this year, where the number of vacancies per month could reach 500," explained Benson.

The opposite condition occurs in the number of job applicants who register. The figure can reach 60 thousand per month. He concluded that the pandemic caused an imbalance in numbers supply workers and demand jobs circulating in society.

New recruitment

The ratio of accepted workers to jobs sought has become fiercer. Look at the spreadsheet document SEAcosystem. com and similar documents local version, every day a list of startup workers layoffs continue to increase, although not all of them are voluntarily shown here. Of the many names there, the majority of divisions affected are marketing and engineering/product/it.

According to Urbanhire data, Benson shows that one of the industries that is still recruiting because it has entered the "green" industry during the pandemic is e-commerce players.

“There is a policy social distancing from the government forcing companies to implement WHF rules for their employees. As a result, there has been an increase in the use of digital-based technology and services. This results in an increase in companies' need for IT talent, as well as workers remote. "

The same condition was explained by the Co-Founder and CEO of Ekrut Steven Sulawan. Digital talents related to IT and digital marketing is the most sought after job vacancy recently. From the type of industry, companies operating in financial services, telecommunications, FMCG, and healthcare including actively recruiting and not really affected by the pandemic.

“If from job roles, in general there was a quite significant decline, especially in some matters related to business. Surprisingly, demand for tech-roles although there is a decline, it is not too drastic, like the position software engineering, product development, data analysis, and position digital marketing. "

Play an important role

The role of Urbanhire and Ekrut is quite important in connecting information about job vacancies to prospective candidates. Benson said that the pandemic has drastically affected the way companies recruit employees by carrying out the recruitment process virtually remotely.

One of the technologies that can support this process is the Applicant Tracking System (ATS), which is increasingly being used by recruiters. Urbanhire comes out with free and feature subscription plans unlimited resume search.

Recruiters can use this free subscription package to post job vacancies and distribute them to various job vacancy portals and universities in Indonesia. Meanwhile, the next feature is useful for accessing millions of high-quality candidate profiles at no additional cost.

"We hope that companies in Indonesia will be better prepared to face changes due to the pandemic in the future. This readiness is in the form of changes in the way of recruiting candidates, where many companies are already recruiting online."

The previous graph, continued Benson, also indicated this insight another thing that many companies are currently focusing on rightsizing, namely looking for the sum point head count (employees) is most appropriate in the midst of a pandemic.

Urbanhire itself does not only position itself as a job vacancy portal, however HR technology and talent solutions, thanks to its strategic partnership with Mercer.

“We have a number of features to help companies today assessment and data analysis for rightsizing; and remote hiring to help start-up companies ramp up hiring activities again."

“We are confident that recruitment will rebound and return to pre-pandemic times once the vaccine comes out. "But even before there is a vaccine, digital talents will remain sexy candidates who are in great demand for at least the next five years, regardless of the economic situation," added Steven.

Recruitment from the start focused on fulfilling talents in the field of information technology with job-roles from software engineering, product management, data science/analysis, marketing and communicationsand operations. The features they have developed include: talent marketplace and marketplace curation algorithm (MCAs).

Expand information channels

Initiation of spreadsheet The local version of SEAcosystem.com and similar documents is another form of simple version of the job vacancy portal that connects them with companies that are still hiring, not only listing who and how many workers are affected.

Increasing job vacancy information will reduce it gap the ratio of workers to companies looking for the best candidates. This method can be implemented in collaboration between the government and the private sector. In Indonesia alone, there are more than 20 job vacancy site players present, both local and global such as Indeed, JobsDB, and JobStreet.

In Singapore, Fintech Association The local government released a vacancy and grant website which lists more than 500 vacancies in six categories, namely information technology, business development, data analytics, management and business, accounting and finance, and marketing and public relations.

The portal also highlights available grant funding and relevant training opportunities in the fintech sector.

Next, collaboration between the global job vacancy site Indeed and the local government in one of the US states, namely Connecticut. Indeed creates a customized job portal, so that people or employers can open the portal to find or post job advertisements.

The types of jobs that are most in demand there, according to Indeed, are retail sales associates, pharmacy technicians, logistics couriers, customer service representatives, and jobs in the restaurant industry.

Indeed is also working together with its competitors, Glassdoor, to give Americans the opportunity to return to work because there are more and more unemployed people there.

Both cross-promote their brands and list available jobs on both sites. Recruiters who use the Indeed platform can also reach their potential candidates through Glassdoor, and vice versa. With partnerships like these, they claim to be able to reach around 80% of online job seekers.