Enterprises still face these challenges in cultivating digital talents. Zhilian Recruitment has released an Insights Report on New Career Trends in Digital Technology
On September 9th, the 2023 China International Human Capital Management Forum, jointly organized by Zhilian Recruitment and the Bund Conference, opened in Shanghai. The forum revolves around the theme of "talent and technology interconnection", focusing on employment, human capital, industry development, technological progress, and other content. It deeply explores the current situation and trends of human capital management in China, and helps the digital transformation of the human capital industry.
In 2022, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security released 97 emerging digital professions, with an average annual salary of up to 540000 yuan. Guo Sheng, Chairman and CEO of Zhilian Recruitment, released a "Digital Technology New Career Trend Insight Report" at the forum, focusing on the new profession of digital technology.
The report shows that there is a huge talent gap in China's digital economy. In order to attract digital talents, industries are offering high salaries, and the "money" prospects for new digital professions are broad. However, facing a huge shortage of digital talents, relying solely on university training is difficult to quickly meet market demand; At the same time, enterprises are also striving to cultivate digital talents, but the results are not ideal. Specifically, more than 70% of enterprises have increased investment in employee digital skill training, but problems such as insufficient systematization and specialization of training content, and high production costs of training content occur frequently.
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Ten cutting-edge digital technologies and new professions have become "new trends" in employment
With the rapid development of the digital economy, the digital transformation of enterprises has driven the emergence of new professions and formats. The combination of digital technology and application scenarios has led to the birth of a series of new digital technology professions. Among the 97 digital professions marked for the first time in the Occupational Classification Code of the People's Republic of China Occupational Classification Ceremony by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, new professions in artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, blockchain, digital twins and other fields have been selected one after another. Zhilian Recruiting has selected 10 cutting-edge digital technology new professions and analyzed their recruitment trends.
From the trend of recruitment scale, the recruitment scale of the top ten cutting-edge digital technology new professions has continued to increase in the past three years. If we consider the recruitment scale of 2019 as 1, by 2022, the recruitment scale of digital twin application technicians has increased to 12.9, the recruitment scale of digital solution designers has increased to 5.2, and the recruitment scale of database operation administrators has increased to 2.3, ranking among the top three professions in terms of recruitment scale growth.
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From the recruitment requirements, the top ten cutting-edge digital technology new professions generally require higher educational qualifications and experience for talents. In 2022, the proportion of recruitment positions requiring a bachelor's degree or above for artificial intelligence engineering technicians and digital twin application technicians reached 90% and 79.1%, respectively, far higher than the overall platform level of 21.5%.
Outstanding salary advantages of digital technology in new professions
In terms of salary, the top ten cutting-edge digital technology new professions have significant advantages across the entire platform. In 2022, artificial intelligence engineers and technicians ranked first among the top ten cutting-edge digital technology new professions, with an average recruitment salary of 24959 yuan/month, far exceeding the average level of 10096 yuan/month across all platforms. Next are digital twin application technicians, digital solution designers, blockchain engineering technicians, and cloud computing engineering technicians, with an average monthly salary of over 17000 yuan in 2022.
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At the same time, digital solution designers have high comprehensive requirements for talent, so the salary level is also considerable. For the future transfer and development of technical talents, it is a good choice. It is worth noting that with the development of cutting-edge digital technology and the emergence of new professions, in addition to traditional methods such as technical and management routes, cutting-edge digital technology new professions may become a new choice for programmers to broaden their career development paths.
Enterprises increase investment in talent cultivation, making digital skills a "hard currency" in the workplace
With regard to the digital skill certification obtained by job seekers, enterprises have a high degree of recognition for the industry level certification of leading "big factories" such as Huawei and Alipay, computer level certification and national vocational skill level certification. The proportion of enterprises that recognize these three items is 47.2%, 44.7% and 44.2% respectively. Industry level certification has a high level of industry recognition, and the national vocational skills level certification is also favored by enterprises due to its authority. In recent years, "big factories" have become industry benchmarks and have started to launch digital skills certification services based on their own technical experience, which have been continuously valued by enterprises.
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Huawei and Microsoft have both launched enterprise certifications based on their own technological systems and ecosystems. Internet giants such as Alipay also launched Alipay skill certification this year. Based on leading digital technology and rich experience in business scenarios, they refined a set of digital skill certification systems and standards that can be learned, practiced and tested. They launched nearly 10000 people to participate in the certification exam only half a year ago, and obtained the qualification of professional skill level certification agency of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, further confirming the gold content of their certification.
At the same time, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security actively promotes and encourages enterprises to play a leading role in the cultivation of digital new vocational talents at the policy level. Therefore, in recent years, Guangdong and Zhejiang have taken the lead in implementing the "one trial, two certificates" policy, which involves mutual recognition between enterprise certification and national vocational skill level certification. Skilled talents can obtain both enterprise certification and vocational skill level certification through one exam, and enjoy many favorable policies in terms of household registration and talent subsidies. Alipay and Huawei have become pilot enterprises of "one trial and two certificates" in Zhejiang and Guangdong, and the gold content and authority of "big factory certification" have been further recognized by the state.
More than 70% of companies have increased investment in employee digital skills training this year
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In terms of investment cost and time, most companies have increased their emphasis on the cultivation and improvement of digital skills for employees compared to last year. From the perspective of investment costs, 75.2% of enterprises expect to increase related investment expenses this year, with 26.9% of enterprises expecting to increase investment expenses by 25% -50% this year, accounting for the highest proportion. 19.4% and 13.7% of enterprises are expected to increase their investment by 50% -75% and over 75% compared to last year.
From the perspective of investment time, it is expected that 72.8% of enterprises will increase their time investment this year, and 14% of enterprises will increase their time investment by more than 75% compared to the same period last year. This indicates that the vast majority of enterprises have plans to increase funding and time investment in digital talent, placing greater emphasis on the digital development of talent.
Nearly 50% of companies believe that their training expertise is insufficient and expect to introduce mature training and certification systems from "big factories"
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44.2% of companies stated that the main problems encountered in the development and enhancement of digital skills for employees are the systematization of training content and low professionalism. 37.9% of companies believe that the production cost of training content is high, 28.4% say that the training is slow to produce results, and 24.8% think that the company has few practical training cases. This means that many enterprises themselves have insufficient theoretical and practical experience in cultivating digital talents, which affects the training effectiveness.
The "35 Year Old Threshold" for Workplace People: Digital Skill Certification Helps Break the Bottlenecks of Career Development
After obtaining digital skills certification, 44.9% of professionals feel that they have greater development opportunities, 42.4% believe that the difficulty of finding a job after the age of 35 is reduced, and 38.3% believe that it is easier to gain recognition from company leaders and colleagues. Among them, 46.7% of technical professionals believe that certification provides them with greater development opportunities, accounting for a higher proportion than other options and above the overall level. 48.1% of non-technical professionals feel that it is easier to find a job after the age of 35, with a higher proportion than other options and higher than the overall level. This indicates that digital skills certification can provide more room for professional talents to develop upwards and give non professional talents a greater advantage in employment.
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The report points out that in the digital age, digital skills are gradually penetrating into various industries, and cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain, big data, and digital twins are widely used. The demand for cutting-edge digital technology new professions such as digital solution designers and database operation administrators is constantly expanding, and digital new professions represented by these cutting-edge digital technology new professions are gradually becoming a "new trend" in employment.
Meanwhile, both enterprises and employees are gradually realizing the importance of cultivating and enhancing digital skills. For enterprises, increasing investment in employee digital skill development not only promotes the digital development of talent, but also adds greater weight to embrace the digital future. For professionals, the innovation of digital careers brings more opportunities. Most professionals are also willing to improve their digital skills through digital skill training and certification, and gain greater opportunities for career development.