2018 is a critical year for recruiting professionals to employ new talent strategies to ensure they are discovering high-potential candidates.
LinkedIn recently released their 2018 Global Recruiting Trends report which revealed the four recruiting trends reconstructing the hiring process. These include: diversity, candidate assessment tools, data, and artificial intelligence (AI). These strategies can ensure organisations are discovering high-potential candidates.
In exploring this report, Human Capital Magazine highlights 85% of Australian talent acquiring leaders and hiring managers say that diversity is the top trend affecting how they hire, making Australia the second-highest country to prioritise diversity when recruiting.
There is a small percentage of HR professionals concerned about AI making them redundant; however, AI cannot detract from human skills such as building relationships, and assessing personal attributes and personality, which are not necessarily reflected in resumes. It will, however, remove some of the repetitive tasks of the recruitment process such as screening and sourcing candidates.
With respect to data, Human Capital Magazine notes:
Data is now critical to the future of hiring with half (50%) of the world’s hiring managers, and two in five (43%) of Australian hiring managers, saying that using data is the top trend affecting how they are hiring.
This facilitates what Jason Laufer, LinkedIn senior director – learning and talent solutions, Asia Pacific refers to as “an era of talent intelligence”. Recruiters can analyse data quickly, and predict and track hiring outcomes.
This extends to improving the traditional interview process which can fail to assess a candidate’s strengths and weaknesses effectively. New strategies should extend to online soft skills assessments, video interviews, and casual and peer interviews.
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Revealed: top trends for recruiting in 2018
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Human Capital Magazine