According to the 2025 Recruitment Trends Report from TopCV, a survey of over 3,000 businesses and an analysis of 300,000 recruitment, business/sales news is the group that is thirsty for human resources, leading for the third consecutive year.
Notably, business/sales is also a group that is easily optimized when needed, with 22% of businesses saying that this is the first department to be cut due to adjustments that have little impact on the overall personnel structure.
As of the end of October 2024, the IT-Social Engineering industry is still in the human resource demand group, especially candidates with 2-3 years of experience. However, the supply of quality candidates is the biggest challenge in the recruitment market for this group.
55% of business representatives said that the supply is unlimited but there is a shortage of highly skilled human resources; nearly 50% said there is fierce competition from large technology enterprises or startups thanks to attractive treatment and working environment; 37% were concerned about difficulty in retaining talent because they have many job opportunities.
From the perspective of workers, foreign languages and high competition between candidates are two main barriers in the journey to find jobs for IT human resources in the past year. In addition, Al is increasingly penetrating deep into work when nearly 34% of businesses expect 31-50% of employees to be able to apply Al in work; 24% of businesses want a rate of 51-70% of total employees; 7% want over 70% and nearly 3% expect all employees to know how to use AI.
In the above context, 63% of surveyed workers affirmed that they should proactively develop critical thinking, creativity and strategy - soft skills that AI is difficult to replace; 53% said that AI should be used more in work to optimize performance.
