Talent trends 2015: Hiring to go up; social recruiting rules

As companies continue to be under pressure to find top talent at lower costs while competing with big brands and promising startups, social media and digital marketing are becoming the new norm in how companies recruit, according to LinkedIn’s Annual Recruitment Trends for 2015. “The need for getting high-quality talent will differentiate a good company from others,” said Irfan Abdulla, director, LinkedIn Talent Solutions. In the fourth year of the report, LinkedIn surveyed more than 4,125 talent acquisition leaders globally, including 300+ in India across 14 industries to understand where they see the industry going in 2015. Rica Bhattacharyya takes a look at the highlights of the latest survey.

Passive Candidate Recruiting: India In Global Top 3

1.) Increase in Indian companies reaching out to passive candidates via proactive sourcing. India ranks 3rd (69%) compared to other countries in terms of hiring passive candidates.

2.) Companies in the US (83%) and China (72%) are most aggressively recruiting passive candidates.

3.) Globally, 75% of professionals consider themselves “passive” yet only 61% of companies consider recruiting passive talent.

The Future Of Recruiting

1.) Global recruiting leaders agree that social and professional networks are the most essential and long-lasting trend in recruiting. Indian firms consider utilising social and professional network as the most (39%) essential and long-lasting trend in recruiting for professional roles, followed by boosting referral programme (31%) and upgrading employer brand (27%).

2.) Candidate and job matching could reshape the recruiting industry - Improved candidate and job matching (personality fit, culture fit, etc) will the most (58%) important role in shaping the recruiting industry for the next five to 10 years.