Almost every country and business sector in the world is still experiencing the seismic shift to working from home caused by the pandemic. While SAAS recruitment agencies have had the jump on high street based recruiters when it comes to adjusting to recruiting within, and for, industries that haven\u2019t decided their own future shape yet, there\u2019s still much to be learned. For the first time, candidates are \u2018ghosting\u2019 employment offers. It\u2019s not clear why this is happening, although recruitment CRM software shows that it\u2019s happening at the latest possible stage in the process – candidates are going right up to the job offer point before simply disappearing and never responding to emails\/texts\/messages. Partly it may be that people want the reassurance that they are still valuable to potential employers, partly it\u2019s simply due to the fact that, like online dating, the risk of dropping out feels much lower if all the engagement has been online. Some of the reason though, is that it\u2019s undoubtedly a candidate\u2019s market. Anybody with a relevant skill set is free to shop around and see what\u2019s out there, and window shopping doesn\u2019t mean people are in the market to buy… just that they\u2019re amusing themselves with a look at the landscape.<\/p>\n
So how to turn window-shoppers into buyers? Well, as thousands of businesses have found in the past year, digital engagement is crucial. Re-examining hiring practices in light of most people being, and wanting to be, online is essential. Getting the correct members of staff involved in recruitment matters too, especially when you\u2019re considering \u2018non-traditional\u2019 candidates. Recruitment management software can be an ideal route to discovering those \u2018non-classic\u2019 candidates but unless they see themselves reflected in a company\u2019s social media<\/a> profile, they won\u2019t find it an attractive prospect. That means not only having peer input to hiring strategies, but also having an inclusive and sensitive media presence. Shutterstock imagery doesn\u2019t cut it in the digital hiring arena!<\/p>\n And the digital recruitment marketplace is booming – expected to grow by $3 billion in the USA alone in the next five years. This means that while digital recruitment is definitely the future of effective hiring, different foundations need to be built to attract the best talent. Recruitment software helps, but recognising the demands of the new marketplace, accepting hybrid working that allows people to spend some, or all, of their work time at home, and engaging with potential candidates with transferable but non-classic skills are all going to be hallmarks of successful hiring strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Almost every country and business sector in the world is still experiencing the seismic shift to working from home caused by the pandemic. While SAAS recruitment agencies have had the jump on high street based recruiters when it comes to adjusting to recruiting within, and for, industries that haven\u2019t decided their own future shape yet, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recruitsosimple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}