The digitization of the economy is generating changes in the job outlook in the short term. As companies adopt technology and automate processes, new roles are created. The EY firm estimates that in 2024, our country will require seven workers for digital positions for every digital talent that there is today.
This accelerated growth of the labor supply for technology-related careers opens a door of opportunities for people and is also accompanied by great challenges for attracting talent.
“Currently, the Mexican labor market faces a paradox similar to that experienced by other countries: there is a huge demand for professionals with technological skillsbut there are not enough candidates available to serve it,” says Mauricio Reynoso, general director of the Mexican Association of Human Resources Management (Amedirh).
EY estimates indicate that in the next five years around 6 million repetitive jobs will disappear and new ones will be created. 7 million positions related to data engineering, automation and artificial intelligence.
In today’s market, companies are already looking for talent with knowledge of statistics, technical analysis and communication; data analysis, business development, computer science, machine learning, big data and programming language. In this sense, the Amedirh estimates that the races that will have greater demand will be those focused on:
- Informatics Engineering
- data science
- Artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- Strategy and digital marketing
- Project automation
In Mexico, the 48% of large companies accelerated its digitization, according to the study Stack It Up of the firm Experis LATAM. The report forecasts that by 2025 the demand for talent will include even more soft skills, such as complex problem solving and project and people management.
“There is a greater demand for talent with both technical and functional skills, while there is still a great shortage of qualified personnel to work in the cloud, cybersecurity, systems and software engineering, software development, for example,” says Guillermo Gabilondo, Director of Experis LATAM.
According to the aforementioned study, among the professional profiles that are having the greatest boom thanks to this technological acceleration include: specialist in artificial intelligence and machine learning; scientific data analyst, specialist in big datainformation security analyst and project manager.
Although there is a clear dominance of the technological profilesit should not be overlooked that digitalization also increases the demand for positions related to planning, people who help manage the development of projects and ensure that the team can manage their remote workload effectively”, says Mauricio Reynoso .
But not everything is technology, as a consequence of the ongoing pandemic, some professionals in the physical and mental health they have climbed steps in the search for talent, particularly nursing and physiotherapy, both at the undergraduate level and at the technical level, explains the general director of Amedirh.
Scarcity and solutions
According to him Talent Trends Report 2022 de Llorente y Cuenca, and the International Organization of Human Capital Managers (DCH), the scarcity of certain profiles, such as digital talent, is generating high turnover in some sectors. Faced with this scenario, companies are likely to bet on professionals who are “capable of managing and solving a large volume of problems and unforeseen events and coexisting in an environment of constant change.”
“Given this labor panorama, the stakeholders We must assume the responsibilities that correspond to us. In this sense, it is the responsibility of companies to invest in upskilling, teach an employee new skills to optimize their performance, and reskillingtrain a collaborator to adapt to a new position, which will improve the collaborator skills with which it already has, “says Mauricio Reynoso.
The talent trends report states that corporate universities they will take a more leading role in combating the shortage of talent and the constant change in skills needed to adapt to new business environments.
“Companies will have to invest time and money in training that is not yet in the teaching centers to face the challenges that the world has ahead”, is highlighted in the study.
