4 crucial recruiting trends you need to know - TheJobNetwork

4 crucial recruiting trends you need to know - TheJobNetworkAs an HR or recruitment professional, you know that some things in your field never changelike matching the right talent with the right position. Just about everything else, however, may be up for grabs. Like every other industry, recruiting grows and evolves with the times. So what does that mean for this year? Lets look at some of the biggest trends that will impact your professional life in the coming months.Crunching the dataWe live in a data-driven society now. And using that data to refine hiring practices isnt an especially new concept, but the level of detail we can harvest and use, as well as the tools we can use to analyze the information, has grown exponentially. According to Jobscience, developing a clear data-driven strategy for hiring can help speed up the hiring process from a current average of two months to fill a given position.Data from current employees (like skills, level of experience, time in the posit ion, or job performance) can help you develop metrics for recruiting people with the right skill sets. It can also help you figure out ahead of time which candidates might be a flight risk, or determine what kinds of hiring packages you should offer to ensure job offer acceptance and employee retention down the road.If your company isnt data-focused just yet, dont worrytheres lots of emerging tech that can help you get there. For example, this year LinkedIn is releasing Talent Insights, a self-service tool that compiles analytics data on talent pools, employee skills, and workforce composition to help companies streamline their own analysis and hiring decisions.Embracing automationSpeaking of tech solutions, nothing has revolutionized talent acquisition quite like automation. The days of hand-scouring a slush pile of resumes for the right interview candidates are gone now. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are already helping staffing and recruiting professionals to streamline virt ually every part of the hiring processparticularly the early stages, when large talent pools need to be narrowed for particular positions.