“Around 75% of Asia Pacific employers, government officials, and academics believe their country has a significant digital skill gap.”
- Economist Impact
In recent years, Asian regions have witnessed a strong economic rebound after the pandemic’s adverse effect on the job market. Asia is leading digitalisation to drive its economy with a skilled and technology-trained workforce. The paradigm shift towards a digital work ecosystem has set boundless growth, opportunities, talent development, and evolving infrastructure. Based on current market trends, Asia’s digital economy has been significantly driven by digital jobs and skills to fill talent gaps. Post-COVID-19 outbreak, digital transformation reshaped jobs, creating the urgency of investing in talent and skills. As a hybrid model and remote working style scale up, it directly impacts how recruiters perform their talent acquisition and management jobs.
The Asian labour market has a wider digital literacy gap that narrows the scope of finding the right talent for high-skilled digital jobs. With evolving market demands, emerging job roles in the industry are data analysts, prompt engineers, AI specialists, blockchain developers, digital marketing experts, cloud computing specialists, e-commerce managers, etc. Altogether, these diverse talent expectations transform the job market into a more competitive one to expand digital literacy at any cost.
Apart from redeveloped job profiles, there are remarkable changes in the workspace. Personalised learning, flexible work culture, holistic perception and employee satisfaction, data-driven decision-making, agile talent, diversity, and inclusion are remarkable changes that slide into Asia’s talent ecosystem with digital footprints. Candidates actively seek digital skill development to divert attention from a degree-oriented approach; these advanced skills create lucrative opportunities to bid for high salaries and escape job market vulnerabilities.
Another trend in the Asia Pacific region is evolving with digital skills—the gig economy, which followed rapid growth to transform the job landscape. It bridges the gaps in the labour market by leveraging technology and unlocking massive opportunities for individuals and companies to make services available to global audiences. Organisations are navigating the landscape and assessing that tech transformation is the key to surviving high-stakes competition.
Southeast Asian regions are leading the way in attracting a young, dynamic workforce that is highly skilled in technology. The governments of developed nations like Singapore, Vietnam, and Thailand are encouraging startups and incubators to support the digital economy with high-skilled jobs and a high standard of living to retain talent worldwide.
