2021 Talent trends in intelligent manufacturing and R&D

Hiring in the manufacturing sector is expected to maintain steady growth in 2021. Among them, the demand for high-tech manufacturing jobs in the direction of research and development and environmental protection manufacturing will further increase, and trigger an increase in the demand for related jobs within enterprises. In addition, it will also bring some scientific and technological breakthroughs in the aspects of job responsibilities, working methods, and working skills.

High-tech manufacturing technology will change job responsibilities

Industries related to the digital economy and advanced manufacturing have played a significant role in the epidemic. With the gradual restoration of the order of production and life, the popularity of “new infrastructure” has increased, and fields such as artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, Internet of Things, and commercial 5G have become the core of attention.

In the future, with the penetration of emerging technologies, the mode, method and focus of work and organization management will also change. With the help of new technologies such as AIoT, traditional multi-person collaborative projects can be completed by a single person. From person-to-person collaboration to man-machine collaboration, individual job responsibilities will focus more on audit, monitoring and management in the future.

The domestic manufacturing industry faces three major challenges. The manufacturing industry is experiencing a process of continuous iterative upgrading from traditional industrial machinery to automation, digitalization and intelligence.

Digital intelligence helps improve production efficiency and counter the pressure and disadvantage caused by rising labor costs. From an international perspective, as a manufacturing country, China has a large number of mature technicians. Some industries may face industrial transfer considerations, but there are still game tradeoffs in labor costs and technical proficiency.

A seller’s market for highly skilled professionals

The wind vane behind manufacturing investment shows that traditional manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing, investment heat is shifting to high-tech, sustainable development.

From the trend point of view, technology research and development, skilled workers, foreign trade, marketing skills are expected to be the most scarce jobs in the manufacturing sector in 2021. The importance of technology is becoming more and more prominent in the current business environment, which is a “seller’s market”.

Taking R & D technical talents as an example, their most prominent skill deficiency is in the professional basic knowledge. Because of the different industries and products, talents will encounter technical incompatibility when switching between different companies. This is not suitable. Lead to the mismatch between the candidate and the company’s needs. It is impossible for a recruiter and a job seeker to expect an exact match between their needs and abilities. In addition to other soft skills, contingency factors, the speed of adaptation to new products and new companies, to a large extent depends on the mastery of professional fundamentals.

In addition, how to obtain the talents needed by enterprises in a timely manner, recruit experienced HRBP, or cooperate with professional human resource service agencies has become an important way for enterprises to deploy talents. In short, the recruitment of highly specialized technical personnel will promote the demand for other positions such as IT artificial intelligence, or talents with cross-academic and cross-industry experience, which will give rise to the recruitment linkage effect.

As the only economy to achieve positive economic growth in 2020, China’s comparative advantages in epidemic prevention and control and economic recovery are expected to attract more overseas talents with engineering backgrounds to develop and return to China in 2021.