Navigating the talent landscape in Hong Kong SAR in 2025: Hays reveals its Top Talent Trends for the coming year
Hong Kong SAR, 18 Dec 2024 – Hong Kong SAR is poised for significant changes in 2025 as advancements in green finance, digital innovation, and a rapidly evolving employment landscape reshape the city’s industries. The coming year will be characterised by developments in sustainability, digital marketing, and an increasing cyber threat, all of which are driving demand for specialised talent. All of these issues and many more are explored in Hays’ Top Talent Trends for 2025.
Encompassing a wide array of industries throughout Hong Kong, Hays’ Top Ten Talent Trends 2025 is essential reading for both employers and employees looking to lead the way in the coming year. An in-depth analysis from Hays recruitment experts, it uncovers the push and pull factors affecting Hong Kong’s organisations and workforce, while highlighting their impact on company strategies, producing actionable recommendations, and identifying the essential skills for employees and jobseekers to thrive in 2025.
“We have seen a significant shift in business focus across the region, driven by investor demand for sustainability,” says Sue Wei, Managing Director at Hays Greater China. “This is particularly influencing the finance sector, where regulatory pressures mean that financial organisations are required to integrate green practices, such as carbon accounting, sustainability reporting, and climate risk assessment. With these factors experiencing an upward trend in 2025, there will be increased competition for talent in these areas over the coming year.”
“Concurrently, there is a clear, sustained, industrywide digital transformation drive, though it is especially notable amongst marketing professionals,” Sue continues. “Today, marketers are increasingly expected to gather insights from vast data sources in order to drive sales growth. However, the talent pool for candidates experienced in digital marketing, e-commerce strategies and data analytics remains light, meaning that candidates who specialise in these areas should expect highly competitive salaries in 2025, while organisations wishing to catch up should focus on upskilling.”
With extensive exploration into these and other key issues driving Hong Kong’s jobs market, Hays’ Top Ten Talent Trends for 2025 is an indispensable resource for anyone preparing for the changes and challenges of the next 12 months.
To view the ten trends in full, please click here.
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Contact
For more information contact:
Remy Tang
Marketing Executive, Hays
T: 2101 0030
E: remy.tang@hays.com.hk
About Hays Hong Kong SAR
Hays Specialist Recruitment Hong Kong is the one of the leading specialist recruitment companies in Hong Kong SAR
in recruiting qualified, professional and skilled people across a wide range of industries and professions.
Hays has been in Hong Kong SAR for over a decade and boasts a track record of success and growth. At Hays in
Hong Kong SAR, we operate across the private and public sector, dealing in permanent and contracting positions, and
workforce solutions such as recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and Managed Service Programmes (MSP) in the
following specialisms: Accountancy & Finance, Banking & Financial Services, Construction, Digital Technology,
Engineering, Finance Technology, Human Resources, Information Technology, Insurance, Legal, Life Sciences,
Marketing & Digital, Office Professionals, Property, Procurement, Supply Chain, Sustainability and Sales. We continue
to strengthen our position in Asia with the world-leading ISO 9001:2015 certification in all our operational markets
including Hong Kong SAR, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.
About Hays
Hays plc (the "Group") is the world’s leading specialist in workforce solutions and recruitment, such as RPO and MSP.
The Group is the expert at recruiting qualified, professional, and skilled people worldwide, being the market leader in
the UK, Germany, and Australia and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The Group operates across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary
assignments. As of 30 June 2024, the Group employed over 11,100 staff operating from 236 offices in 33 countries.
For the year ended 30 June 2024:
– the Group reported net fees of £1,113.6 million and operating profit of £105.1 million.
– the Group placed around 57,700 candidates into permanent jobs and around 225,000 people into temporary roles.
– 13% of Group net fees were generated in Australia & New Zealand, 32% in Germany, 20% in United Kingdom &
Ireland and 35% in Rest of World (RoW).
– the temporary placement business represented 59% of net fees and the permanent placement business
represented 41% of net fees.
– Technology is the Group’s largest division, with 25% of net fees, while Accountancy & Finance (15%) and
Engineering (11%), are the next largest.
– Hays operates in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, the
Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico,
the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, UAE,
the UK, and the USA.
