The Future of Recruiting

Four predictions on how your role will change.

Businesses are bracing for a future where talent is everything. To ensure your team is prepared, you’ll need to master new skills, metrics, and tools.

Explore four ways recruiting will change below. Download the full report to see all seven predictions with more original LinkedIn data, surveys of your peers, and quotes from talent leaders, plus actionable tips and tactics.

Prediction 1

Recruiting will be mission critical.

Business leaders will rely on you.

As automation takes over the most repetitive tasks, every job is growing more creative and complex. This magnifies the upside of hiring the right talent—and the downside of the wrong fit.

That’s why recruiting grows more important every day and why the market for recruiters has never been hotter.

Prediction 2

Your metrics will track outcomes, not just actions.

Business results count for more.

Time to hire is a popular metric for a reason: it’s easy to track and can help set expectations. But it only describes how fast your recruiters hired, not how well. 

The future of recruiting will revolve around more strategic metrics that measure long-term business outcomes, like quality of hire.

Prediction 3

Tech tools will unleash your team's potential.

Technology will upgrade your team.

Over two-thirds of all recruiting professionals agree that the best way to improve performance over the next five years is to invest in new recruiting technology. 

While tech tools hold great promise, many recruiting teams also feel overwhelmed by too many fragmented platforms that don’t work well together.

Prediction 4

Three skills will redefine recruiting.

Recruiting is evolving.

Recruiters will be called on to do more: to engage passive candidates inundated by offers, to transform talent data into actionable insights, and to advise business leaders instead of just following orders.