Media & Research

Hays, the world’s leading recruiting experts in qualified, professional and skilled people, today publishes a report that analysed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the global skilled labour market and sets out its potential longer-term effects on the skilled labour markets, globally.

With continued business and social policy support as well as an accelerated vaccine roll-out plan, Malaysia’s much beleaguered procurement and supply chain sector is on track for a recovery with a slow but steady resurgence of pent-up demand in the coming months. 

A world-class, future-proof recruitment strategy is the key to improving the performance of technology companies, finds recruitment specialist Hays. In a recent poll, 45 per cent of nearly 500 respondents agreed that it improves overall productivity, alongside customer experience (26 per cent), product quality (19 per cent), and financial performance (10 per cent).

With expectations of a global economic resurrection in the second half of 2021, Malaysian businesses are preparing to augment their sales divisions, targeting prime position amongst the resurgence. This is particularly apparent in the technology, media, telco and resources industries, while organisations that support a newly revived supply chain are also reactivating sales functions. These developments highlight how essential it is for companies to be assertive in candidate pipelining, as being poised will be critical as Malaysia moves forward in the post-pandemic world.