HR Tech 2019: HR in the age of artificial intelligence HRExecutive.com

Under the best of circumstances, strengthening a workforce that reflects an employer's true business values, culture and growth objectives while filling critical talent needs represents a challenge. But with today's very low unemployment rates and ongoing skills gap, the formidable task of recruiting and retaining talent with the required skills to drive growth is even more difficult. Weathering that storm requires innovative thinking and technology to fill talent needs through well-stocked pipelines, which, in turn, will lead to optimized productivity and the desired increases in business growth. Research shows that the skills gap is not only very real, it's reaching serious proportions. The Society for Human Resource Management's survey of 1,028 HR professionals in late 2018 found that an eye-opening 83% say they had difficulty recruiting suitable candidates in the past 12 months.2