I have been recruiting IT professionals for over 16 years, and in the past few years, I have become more involved and focused within the digital transformation space. I recruit to some great companies. So, I decided to put together a little article on my take on Digital Transformation, a recruiter’s perspective, and share my thoughts!
So, what is it? –, Digital Transformation is where companies utilize technology to a significant extent to develop their services. It is putting digital at the core of a company and using data and analytics to support and drive business decisions.
It is a company’s mission to evolve, gain competitive advantage, and using technology to achieve this. Then in practice, a digital team or teams are integrated into the organization.
This digital drive requires teams of staff specifically focused on the digital agenda, and this will often require hiring new staff. This is where I come in, I help companies staff their digital journey.
Digitization – The process of converting information into digital/computer format.
Digitalization – is the use of digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities; it is the process of moving to a digital business.
Digital Transformation – This is the integration of digital technology into all areas of a business, fundamentally changing how you operate and deliver value to customers. It’s also a cultural change that requires organizations to continually challenge the status quo, experiment, and get comfortable with failure.
Different companies will, of course, have different setups tailored best to their business, size, and industry. The bigger the company/digital team, generally the more specialized individuals you have, and can have variants of each role type. Here I will generalize some of the main core positions you would most likely find in a digital set-up:
There are various other roles, hybrids, and key job functions that make up the digital hub of a company, however, this just highlights some of them.
As you can see from the above positions I listed, a lot of these positions are relatively new, role profiles are changing with technology. Therefore, companies that invest in a major digital transformation are likely to need to hire.
My role as a recruiter is to help companies in building their digital team(s). I get involved either internally by working in-house for the hiring phases of digital growth, or I can also help clients remotely as an external headhunter. This is also a good description of what my company, Payne Search, does. We hire for digital transformations, and we either do this onsite/in-house, or as an external search process.
I love being a ‘Digital Recruiter’! Every day is a continuous learning process, and I am always growing my network and meeting great people. I really thrive in being a part of a company’s decision-making process, identifying the ‘as is’ and mapping out the ‘to-be’. I absolutely look forward to helping many companies on their digital transformation journey. So, if you are a company looking to hire digital talent, or a digital talent yourself, please connect with me! You can add me here on LinkedIn, and also my email is christian@paynesearch.com.
I am about to start a monthly newsletter (the first edition goes out December 1st) that is specifically for the digital space. The content is likely to consist of a blog from me, some articles on key digital topics from ‘the experts’, knowledge sharing, and then some great digital job opportunities. This will be my first attempt at a newsletter, so I will look forward to getting feedback from the community and will be improving and tweaking as we go along (in true Agile style!).
So, if you have made it to the end of this article, I truly thank you for showing interest!