Manage HR Magazine | Friday, April 22, 2022
Talent acquisition professionals continue to face recruiting and hiring challenges in the second year of an unprecedented labor market characterized by record-level turnover and job openings, increased stress, and significantly changed candidate expectations.
FREMONT, CA: In the aftermath of the pandemic, improving the quality of hires is the objective for polled recruiters over the next 12 months. Experts believe that the aspirational projection results from the crisis hiring that is occurring in several industries. Employers in a rush to fill positions may believe that once the labor market calms down, the efficacy of those employees will be assessed and rectified. Over the last five years, the poll revealed some noteworthy trends in recruitment goals. Areas like talent pipelines and employer branding have witnessed the most significant declines in prominence. Investing in recruitment technologies, automating procedures, and increasing diversity are among the most significant upward shifts.
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Recruiters expect to face issues associated with the pandemic in 2022, such as managing health and safety concerns, COVID-19 immunization obligations, and determining whether positions are remote, onsite, or somewhere in between. Experts believe that if organizations do not adapt to applicant and employee expectations around these challenges, they will likely lose talent. Recruiters have cited how candidates have turned down offers explicitly due to a lack of flexibility. Experts advise recognition from senior employees might prove to be a solution as recruiters would undoubtedly benefit from greater technology and a larger budget for job advertising; however, simply expressing gratitude can make them go a long way.
Candidate expectations have altered recently, and employees now expect more from their employers. Seventy-three percent of recruiters remark that they've seen increased prospects and current employees bargaining for better compensation, up more than 20 percentage points since 2020. Candidates are educated, and up-to-date regarding the market value, and recruiters are getting tech-savvy about negotiating and pre-closing applicants early.
In addition to recruiters' agility, the study results revealed that companies must increase process efficiency to compete for talent in a candidate's market. Recruiters employ artificial intelligence and automation tools to source, screen, schedule, and chat with candidates at a higher rate than last year.
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