You have a solid business expansion plan and are ready to launch in Asia. Finding the right talent is probably half the battle won, but what are the available hiring channels?
Prospects for tech talent have never looked brighter, especially in Asia.
Forecasts for demand for digital and technology skillsets are buoyant, according to a 2019 salary survey by recruitment consultancy Robert Walters.
Leading tech cities in Asia are neck and neck in the digitalisation race, with Bangalore, Singapore, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong topping tech destination and startup ecosystem rankings by Colliers Radar 2018 and Startup Genome 2019.
Southeast Asia: The heart of Asia’s booming tech landscape
At the heart of Asia’s digital boom is Southeast Asia (SEA). SEA will have 480 million internet users by 2020, more than the population of the U.S.A., Canada and the United Kingdom combined.
Digitally-savvy middle-class millennials below the age of 40 already make up 70 per cent of the region’s 640 million people, and the region’s middle-class disposable income is predicted to hit US$300 billion by 2022.
According to the 2018 Google-Temasek e-Conomy SEA Spotlight report, SEA’s internet economy will grow to US$240 billion by 2025.
One critical enabler for this digital economy is the 100,000 highly-skilled professionals in the region – a talent pool growing by 10 per cent each year.
What are the top tech skills in Asia?
Professional network LinkedIn’s Future of Skills 2019 report captures the ten most sought-after tech skills in Asia: AI, blockchain, compliance, continuous integration, front-end web development, gesture recognition technology, human-centered design, robotic process automation, social media marketing, and workflow automation.
Possessing any one of these ten trending skills triples demand for a worker, reports LinkedIn.
