Huge Increase of HR Jobs

HR professionals are doing well in the market. In 2016 there were 37,763 jobs posted. That is an increase of 24.2% from 2015, as calculated by Jobfeed, based on unduplicated data from 192,562 job placements. The greatest demand in this field is for recruiters at 46% of the number of vacancies, followed by 31.5% in the operational part within this field.

The most HRM jobs are in the Randstad: North and South Holland together account for nearly half of the vacancies. Utrecht and Noord-Brabant are aggregating another 25% of HR vacancies.

Employers are looking for HRMs especially with a bachelor’s degree (HBO Dutch). 25.3% of the jobs require an HR professional at vocational level and only 4.3% want a scientifically literate HRM.

HR is also advancing online. The most important buzzword in the job is ‘social media’; other commonly used terms are ‘talent manager’, ‘sourcing’ and ‘branding’.

Source: http://www.pwnet.nl

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