“A job market in full mutation”: Fabienne Arata Camps, director of Linkedin France, faces the changes in recruitment

Fabienne Arata Camps, director of LinkedIn France, guest of Le Fil rouge, gives her insight on the transformation of the world of recruitment.

Recruiting has become a greater priority for leaders. How has it evolved in recent years ?

When I interact with our customers, I have observed for 2-3 years now that we have gone from “I’need of such profile with such diploma to do such job”, at “I’I need these skills for this position at such time& rdquo;. The paradigm of the job market is changing and the subject of skills is becoming the trump card.

We can also see this on our platform: almost one in two recruiters already use skills filters on LinkedIn to source their candidate pools. Three reasons explain this phenomenon in my opinion. The first is to anticipate the obsolescence and emergence of skills. The second is facing the difficulty of filling certain positions in shortage sectors or sectors.

By taking a skills-based approach to recruiting, employers can identify and attract a broader and more diverse talent pool, including candidates who may have non-traditional backgrounds or experiences. Finally, last reason and not the least: prioritizing the subject of skills would make it possible to better retain talent and encourage internal recruitment. If we are able to perfectly work on the internal mobility of employees, we significantly increase their retention and our ability to fill open positions.

What are the skills most sought after by companies ?

Today, we identify three skills portfolios widely sought after by companies. The first is linked to green skills: companies face a huge shortage of qualified talent to fill green jobs. The second is of course linked to Artificial Intelligence, which has experienced a meteoric acceleration since last year. Finally the last, which is intrinsically linked to the second, concerns behavioral skills or “soft skills” such as management, communication and teamwork to look for their next collaborators (in the top 5 most sought-after skills in France).

Teleworking, flexibility, mobility, salary…, the lines are moving in the company. How managers integrated these transformations ?

If we have moved since the pandemic from a 100% remote approach to a more hybrid approach, flexibility has become THE favorite topic of conversation for our members. Since 2019, we have observed a 362% increase in the number of posts relating to flexibility on our platform. This is therefore a real expectation for all workers in France.

To integrate all these transformations and developments, companies are investing significantly in manager training – and more specifically on the new managerial practices to adopt in this hybrid world.

A question about the territories, which cities perform the best in Occitanie ?

Our data demonstrates a labor market in full transformation. Indeed, Occitanie has seen a 53% growth in the number of professionals from the region registering on LinkedIn since 2020 and today has more than 1.6 million professionals on our platform.

More than 100,000 offers were published in Occitania in 2023 – including nearly 35,000 in the Toulouse metropolitan area and 10,500 in the Montpellier metropolitan area. The construction (+90%), distribution (+55%) and public administration (+50%) sectors experienced the largest increases in job postings in the region compared to 2022. Another salient observation: the metropolises of Toulouse and Montpellier are among those which concentrate the most green talents in the region and across France (16% and 16.5% respectively compared to 15.6% on average in France).

On AI as on greening, do you observe any differences between men and women ?

Even if women today represent +30% of AI talents in France (a figure higher than the world average – 24.9%), there is another reality hidden which goes against observed global trends: the share of female AI talents in France has lost nearly a point and a half in just 7 years.

And the gap is also widening on green skills in France. 90% of women around the world do not have a single “green” skill or professional experience. And it is in France that the gap in green skills has widened the most between men and women since 2016 (+93%).