Social skills and digital literacy are becoming a major must – haves for new age employees, says the newly released Randstad India’s latest global Workmonitor Survey 2013, a quarterly review.
This review tracks job seekers confidence and provides a comprehensive understanding of job market sentiment and trends relating to the employment market across 32 countries. The survey indicates that employees’ 91 per cent of the respondents have rated social skills, digital skills (91 per cent) ahead of education now more than 5 years ago. However, 94 per cent of the respondents valued experience as the most important criteria at present.
The survey also revealed that 90 per cent of the respondents believe that their job requirements will become more demanding in the next five years and this is much above the world average of 76 per cent. Further, it was found that job requirements have become very challenging with around 90 per cent of the employees saying that job requirements will become even more demanding in the next 5 years. This is much above the world average of 76 per cent.
Moorthy K Uppaluri, CEO, Randstad India & Sri Lanka said: “Organizations across industry sectors are recruiting talents from various geographies and companies are therefore looking for employees with effective social skills who can fit into the organization’s culture.
"And since technology is the adhesive that connects a distributed workforce, digital literacy and netiquette have become vital qualities employers look for while recruiting,” he added.