Survey on the employment dilemma of IT enterprises in the "Internet +" era

The concept of "Internet +" has spawned a large number of Internet companies, and more and more traditional industries need to penetrate and integrate with the Internet more deeply. However, in this wave of Internetization, the industry has found that it is difficult to find excellent Internet talents.

The number of Internet companies continues to grow, and the demand for employment remains high

At this year's two sessions, the government work report proposed the "Internet +" plan and issued a series of policies to promote the application and service development of the Internet, especially mobile Internet in business, industry, finance and other industries, and focused on supporting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and micro-enterprises. The number of Internet companies in China continues to grow significantly. However, in the two areas of transformation of traditional industries to the Internet and the start-up and development of Internet small and medium-sized enterprises, they face many difficulties, the most important of which is: talent is hard to find.

In 2014, the number of employers in China's online recruitment industry reached 2.524 million, with a growth rate of 28.2%. The recruitment demand of Chinese companies, especially small, medium and micro enterprises, continues to be strong, the supply and demand are large and the matching difficulty is still relatively large.

According to data from a vertical recruitment website for the Internet industry, nearly half of the talent that Internet companies are looking to recruit is technical talent, followed by marketing, sales, operations, etc.; while among the applicants, technical personnel only account for 27.4%. This reflects the huge demand gap for technical talent in companies, and the supply and demand tension index for Internet industry practitioners remains high and is even increasing year-on-year.

The problems of sluggish market and difficulty in finding jobs in other industries do not seem to exist in the Internet industry. High staff turnover is another major feature of the Internet industry. The ratio of people leaving and job seekers is roughly the same, and more than half of job-hoppers can find satisfactory jobs within two months.

The Internet has penetrated into many areas of traditional industries, and professional talents are in short supply

With the introduction of a series of national support and encouragement policies and the rapid development of the Internet industry, Internet companies have penetrated deeper and deeper into multiple fields. In the mobile Internet, e-commerce, O2O, finance and other industries, a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises have been established and developed, and Internet leading companies represented by BAT giants have also actively invested in and merged other companies in these fields. In these fields, there is also a huge demand for Internet talents, especially in the mobile Internet industry, which is developing the fastest and requires the most talents.

Internet practitioners are concentrated in different regions, and it is difficult to recruit experienced and senior employees with high salaries

According to the data, first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Guangzhou are the ideal development cities for most Internet companies, and more and more Internet technical talents are also concentrating in these cities in pursuit of ideal salaries and development opportunities. Among Internet practitioners who hope to develop in other cities, the proportion of those who are not in first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen exceeds 75%, and the proportion of those who hope to develop in Beijing and Shanghai exceeds half. This undoubtedly makes it more difficult for Internet companies in other cities to find ideal talents.

In addition, senior talents are more sought after. Many companies often offer high salaries but still find it difficult to recruit qualified employees. More than half of Internet practitioners have less than 2 years of work experience, while positions in technology, product, and operation categories can get a monthly salary of around 10,000 yuan with 1-2 years of work experience.

Code can be reused, but can talents be reused?

The shortage of professional and experienced talents has become a common headache for Internet companies. Some companies have proposed their own solutions: Code can be reused, but can talents be reused?

Code reuse is a technical term in the Internet industry. It aims to solve the time and efficiency waste caused by repeated writing of the same function code, encourage modularization, reuse existing code, and improve work efficiency. Can the same idea be used to solve the problem of talent shortage?

As a result, some IT crowdsourcing platforms began to emerge, such as "Jiefanghao", which adopted exactly this idea: reuse talents with project experience, break geographical restrictions, complete the reuse of professional talents online, and solve the problem of difficulty in hiring in enterprises.

On such a crowdsourcing platform, companies publish outsourcing projects. There are a large number of experienced programmers and teams online who can easily accept the project after checking the company's needs. The platform will also profile them based on advanced intelligent algorithms to help companies recommend the talents that best meet their needs. After checking the resumes, companies will have room to select the talents they want.

The Internet industry is in a golden period of rapid growth. While Internet companies are facing a lot of opportunities, they are also facing many difficulties that restrict their development. The addition of more senior talents can fill the problem of insufficient experience of small and medium-sized enterprises and traditional enterprises that are in urgent need of transformation, and more Internet practitioners are also eager to have a bigger stage to show their value and achieve better growth and development. The emergence of crowdsourcing platforms as "middle bridges" may be able to solve urgent problems for more companies and practitioners now and in the future, and promote further development.