Digital managing practitioner booms as emerging occupation

The population of digital managing practitioners has grown to over 2 million in China in less than two years, since this emerging occupation was included by the nation in 2019, the Economic Daily reported on Monday.

Digital managing practitioners refer to those who edit a firm's architecture and personnel structure, maintain the firm's workflow, analyze the big data, and realize online management among other tasks by digital means.

Statistics from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security showed a firm that employs digital management practitioners at a 10:1 ratio saw a 35 to 50 percent higher work efficiency than those that did not hire such personnel.

Digital management is a manifest need and an inevitable trend, especially against the COVID-19 pandemic background which accelerates the process of going digital. Data from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security showed digital managing practitioners have been fresh troops in firms' digital transformations, highlighting there are still a potential shortage of nearly 10 million such practitioners.

Economic Daily reported more and more attention has been focused on emerging occupations such as the digital management practitioner. As far as 2019, 56 new occupations have been included by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security by March 18, 2021. The contribution to new job creation in 2020 from these new occupations cannot be neglected, the Economic Daily said.