LinkedIn's Global Recruiting Trends 2017 revealed the following trends.
1. Recruitment is part of top management
It's gaining a better position and greater influence. It can reach measurable results in monetary terms and influence the emergence of major products.
More than 83% of recruitment managers claim that talent is a top priority for their companies and that's also why they communicate regularly with top management.
2. Recruiters will have more work
Fifty-six percent of respondents assume that there will be even more work for them in 2017 compared to 2016. They will be especially searching for talent in the field of sales, operations and engineering.
3. The best employees come via referrals
Forty-eight percent of recruiters think that the best employees can be found thanks to personal referrals. Forty-six percent have their best experience with job boards and 40% with social networks. Recruitment agencies and independent recruiters (34%) and internal candidates (28%) follow.
4. Budgets are still spent on traditional techniques
Recruitment budgets are not yet so high that they can be spent other than conservatively. More than half of recruiters invest mostly in job advertisements and recruitment agencies. Approximately 17% of recruitment budgets are earmarked for technology purposes.
Although recruiters consider referrals as the best source of quality hires, they invest a minimum of their resources into referral programs. The same is true for employer branding.
However, if they could choose, recruiters would prefer to invest in long-term strategic plans, such as employer brand building, improving applicants' experience with the company and improving their team's skills.
5. Key future trends include diversity and automation
Automation is a faster and more accurate way of screening applicants. Many companies also wanted to stand out from its competitors with its initiatives in diversity. In particular, large companies are increasingly interested in working with big data.
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