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If hiring demand keeps growing at this rate, 1 of 3 things will happen:
Recruitment tech will finally not suck.
Recruiter offshoring will be a thing.
Companies will pay through the nose (or struggle to get anything done.)
We place recruiters. Our data says recruiter salaries increased ~30% last year. It’s an absurd increase (that I love). But is growing another 30% this year realistic?
Something has to change. (Maybe I shouldn’t underestimate corporate inertia?) Still:
👉Recruitment tech will finally not suck.
Every internal recruiter has been in a position where no one cared if they spun their wheels. Unrealistic requirements, time lines, work loads.
Hiring up 2x? No problem. 2x work for the TA team.
Not every org runs that way. But there’s enough clueless execs in the world that we’ve all felt that vibe at least once.
And it’s also part of the reason why recruitment tech sucks so bad. There’s never been a critical need to invest smart money into time saving, efficient, and useful recruiting tech.
Because…meh. It’s just the recruiter’s time. Who cares?
“This time it’s different” is uncharacteristically optimistic for me. But it’s why we’ve been developing our Sourcewell technology. (Coming soon. Shameless plug.)
I doubt we’re the only ones watching this movie.
👉Recruiter offshoring will be a thing.
In the tech and tech-related areas we focus on, there’s not enough people. And there’s not enough people finding those people.
You can’t make more experienced software engineers overnight. But you can find them elsewhere.
Same thing applies to tech (or any) experienced recruiters.
Remember when this was a “must be onsite” profession? That sure flipped.
If we’re all remote anyway, who cares where we’re located?
👉Companies will pay through the nose (or struggle to get anything done.)
People rarely change until they feel the pain. At some point execs will wonder why they can’t get the product built or sold.
If they’re still not capable of adopting a proactive view towards hiring and development, they’ll have at two options: keep paying more or lose revenue.
2022. What a time to be a recruiter.
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At this rate 1 of 3 things will happen in recruitment