Anyone working in recruitment right now is either extremely excited or very worried. Or a bit of both. Here’s what Recruitment Directors need to be thinking about as the pace of change quickens.
Change is everywhere, and denial is dangerous.
Recruitment is on the move
You could argue this field of HR is changing the fastest. In the last couple of years, we’ve witnessed the launch of countless technologies designed to make recruitment ‘easier’. Digital and mobile tech is changing the face of recruitment forever.
Add to this the movement to be truly candidate-centric and you have the recipe for a wholesale shift in the marketplace.
Recruitment Directors are facing real challenges
Being a Recruitment Director today is both amazing and bewildering. You have the chance to use truly revolutionary technologies to differentiate yourself and your business. But there’s so much choice it’s overwhelming.
If you’re a Recruitment Director, there are plenty of questions to keep you awake at night. Where to spend that budget? What to source directly through digital channels? How to make your process-optimising ATS more valuable? How to get to grips with you talent pools? How to make the candidate experience more meaningful and engaging and less expensive? What to outsource and what to retain? Where to spend marketing funds?
The trick is to hone in on the best tech
Help is at hand. There are new products out there, created specifically to solve these cutting-edge conundrums. The Hire Lab is a prime example. It helps you create an efficient and memorable experience for every applicant, while ticking plenty of boxes for your business too.
Powered by the latest tech, candidate-centric tools like this aim to provide a single, end-to-end solution that will increase candidate intimacy and automate the holy trinity of resourcing: sourcing, selection and onboarding. Built to integrate with existing tools, they bring you a cost effective way to increase the value of current investments while fundamentally changing candidate engagement.
But how to do you hone in on the right solutions for your business?
Increasingly, that’s what will set the best Recruitment Directors apart. Within three to five years, new products and services will have flooded the market, and we’ll have witnessed several rounds of market consolidation. The Recruitment Director’s challenge will not just be to keep up to speed, but to stay one step ahead of the pack.
Ready, steady, go.
Aaron Alburey FCIPD, Member of the HR Guild, father to the L, A, C, and E (Lauren, Alex, Caleb and Eve) in LACE Partners and bouldering enthusiast
