LinkedIn's Global Recruiting Trends for 2018

Recruitment of talents nowadays has a highly transactional character. However, monotonous searching, scheduling, and continuously repeating screening may not be effective, let alone enjoyable. According to the world's largest professional social network LinkedIn, it is now time to start concentrating on the more positive aspects of recruitment - human and strategic. A new era is coming when new modern technologies will let us do this.

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This information was gleaned from the 7th year of a survey of global recruitment trends conducted by the LinkedIn social network among more than 8,800 HR professionals and hiring managers from 23 countries.

The Global Recruiting Trends 2018: The 4 Ideas Changing How You Hire survey revealed the following trends.

LinkedIn Global Recruiting Trends 2018: The 4 Ideas Changing How You Hire

1. Diversity

78% of companies consider the diversity of job candidates as a priority for improving their corporate culture and 62% as a priority for increasing their financial performance.

LinkedIn Global Recruiting Trends 2018: The 4 Ideas Changing How You Hire

2. New techniques for conducting interviews

This trend is related to the increased availability of new recruitment tools that will make it easier to get to know the candidates. 52% of managers believe in the new tools. These include, in particular, online evaluation of the candidates' soft skills, job auditions, informal interviews, video interviews and the involvement of virtual reality.

3. Data

For the purpose of recruitment, companies are interested in using data primarily to reduce employee fluctuation (56%), assessing skill gaps (50%), and creating better job offers (50%).

LinkedIn Global Recruiting Trends 2018: The 4 Ideas Changing How You Hire

4. Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence tools help recruiters save time (67%), remove human prejudices from recruitment (43%), and find the most suitable candidates for vacancies (31%). AI tools are most helpful for them in sourcing, screening, and nurturing of candidates. Only 14% of respondents are afraid that they might lose their jobs due to robots.

LinkedIn Global Recruiting Trends 2018: The 4 Ideas Changing How You Hire

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