The Future of Recruiting: North America Report

The essential employer branding handbook

81% of talent professionals say virtual recruiting will outlast COVID-19

The way you recruit changed overnight. With constantly shifting business needs and fewer resources, you moved your company through historic challenges and started to rethink your approach to recruiting from the ground up.

To help you thrive in this new environment, we surveyed thousands of your peers, interviewed recruiting leaders across the globe, and analyzed exclusive LinkedIn data. Download the report to discover:

Why tapping into internal talent pools is vital
How recruiters can play a leading role in diversity
What recruiting skills will matter the most going forward

Be prepared to navigate this new world of recruiting. Read The Future of Recruiting: North America report today.

“The future of talent acquisition lies in reskilling, rather than finding someone better in the market. If you need to hire today, you need to reskill yesterday.”

Rajesh Ahuja
Global Head of Talent Acquisition at Infosys
"Recruiters have to be able to answer questions on culture. They have to be able to answer questions about the company’s stance on diversity. They have to teach leaders and managers how to think more broadly about their own choices and coach them to gravitate not towards who they “like” but who adds to the organization.”

Lauren Gardner
Vice President of Global Talent Acquisition at Microsoft
“Now that we've proven we can run our recruiting shop virtually, what does the new normal look like? We won't go back to an environment where everything is fully in-person again because we don't have to. It’s likely going to be a hybrid of in-person and virtual.”

Shavonne Gordon
Vice President of Enterprise Diversity Recruiting at Capital One
"You think about cloud solutions — being able to tap into the cloud wherever you are. Why can’t we do that with talent? It doesn't matter where you sit or what country you’re in as long as you have the skills. I think COVID will be around for a while, unfortunately — but that’s an opportunity for recruiting to say that the door for talent is now open everywhere.”

Sharon Tan
Product Owner of Talent Mission, Next Gen People Practices at Telstra
"COVID will push employer branding further. People will remember if their organization didn't look after them, if there were mass layoffs with no support as soon as COVID hit. They'll also remember those organizations that really stood up and stood apart."

David Hindle
Strategic Recruitment Lead at Lloyds Banking
“If you want to build cost efficient TA teams, you need to make sure that people are more flexible, more adaptable, and that they can really change to the needs of the business. Lots of companies have got boxes that people sit in. I think those boxes may start to dissipate over time.”

Candice De Clerck
Global Director of Recruiting at Prosus Group