KELLY SERVICES
“ WE CONTINUE LOOKING AT THE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE WE CAN
DELIVER NEW
SERVICES TO OUR CANDIDATES AND CLIENTS ”
ALEXANDRE KOZLOV HEAD OF INTERNATIONAL IT ,
KELLY SERVICES to put all our bets on the cloud . We say we don ' t go cloud first , we go cloud smart – in other words , considering where a cloud solution would really make sense and would benefit the business side .
“ Unfortunately , I very often hear that my IT colleagues from other companies are still looking at the cloud as a costcutting opportunity . But , in my view , this is fundamentally wrong . Of course , it ' s good to cut costs , but you should really explore the cloud to deliver new features and new capabilities to the business , and not always just to simply save ,” explains Kozlov .
According to a report by BCG , companies can save around 15-40 % on infrastructure costs by migrating to the cloud . For some companies , the savings can be even greater . With these statistics in mind , it ’ s no surprise that Gartner ’ s research found 95 % of data workloads will be hosted in the cloud by 2025 , up from 30 % in 2021 . It also predicts that over 95 % of businesses will use cloud computing by 2025 .
Touching on the importance of technology , Kozlov discussed how , without technology , businesses probably could not operate . We are no longer in the era where CVs are sent via post , today it is all automated .
“ Today , you even have companies where video interviews are conducted with robots , not a person , especially at the beginning of the hiring process . Something that is not so visible to the external world is that we have quite a big explosion of various analytics stores . We utilise these at the backend when we analyse our candidate database when we look for the best match between a job offer and existing candidates . We also try to forecast how the market will
200 December 2022