For fintech companies, the digital era is both a challenge and a full of opportunities, and its arrival has promoted the digital transformation of enterprises, and the key to fintech transformation is to cultivate a talent team with digital thinking. In the view of Shuhe Technology, talent is the main body of innovation and entrepreneurship, only by unswervingly adhering to the principle of talent, vigorously introducing talents, innovating the way of cultivating talents, optimizing talent services, adding full horsepower in policies, working mechanisms, and using sincerity in services to create an atmosphere of a hundred flowers blooming for talent development, high-quality development will have a steady stream of fresh blood.
In the context of the digital era, the strategies for fintech talent management also tend to be diversified and flexible, and conform to the development trend of the times and the needs of talent development in terms of selection, education, employment and retention. For a long time, Shuhe Technology attaches great importance to science and technology, respects talents, and is committed to the cultivation and selection of elite talents. It is reported that as a fintech company with natural advantages in digital and intelligent transformation, Shuhe Technology proposed a digital and intelligent transformation strategy as early as 2019 and is well aware of the importance of talent training in the digital economy. And around the dimensions of identification, selection, employment, education, and retention, we continue to innovate the training mechanism, and actively promote the construction of a digital professional team.
The continuous rapid growth of the digital economy and the continuous optimization of the fintech system have accelerated the expansion of the demand for talents in the fintech industry. Fintech talents have become a "sweet spot" in the recruitment of financial institutions and fintech enterprises. According to the data, among the nearly 1,000 employees of Shuhe Technology, 60% of them are engaged in technology and other related work. Among them, campus recruitment is the backbone of the digital talent pool, and in 2022, the number of digital talents recruited by the campus will double compared with last year. The proportion of talents from 211 and 985 colleges and universities increased by 14% year-on-year. In addition, Shuhe Technology closely followed the company's business strategy to promote the transformation of its talent structure, and in 2022, its risk personnel increased by 13% year-on-year6%, and the number of strategic personnel increased by 9 percent year-on-year9. Technical talents increased by 5 percent year-on-year8%。
In the era of digital finance, in the face of rapid iteration and fierce competition in cloud computing, big data, blockchain, artificial intelligence and other technologies, in the final analysis, it is still the competition of financial technology compound talents. Since its establishment eight years ago, Shuhe Technology has fully respected the uniqueness and diversity of talents, further optimized and improved the talent system and mechanism, relied on the first-class platform to "gather and make good use of talents", focused on major tasks of "cultivating and making good use of talents", deepened scientific and technological cooperation to "introduce and make good use of talents", played the role of enterprises, and "used and retained talents". As of June 2023, the Huanbei app under Shuhe Technology has accumulated more than 1300 million person-times, providing reasonable credit services for more than 17 million users. Behind this achievement is inseparable from the support of high-quality talents.
In the future, Shuhe Technology will continue to explore the advantages and skills of talents, accelerate its own development into an influential talent center and scientific and technological innovation highland in the financial industry, and provide strong talent guarantee and intellectual support for the financial strategy of technology empowerment.