Employ Recruiter Nation Report 2024

Empowering
People-First
Recruiting

Dive into the latest trends and insights shaping the future of talent acquisition. This comprehensive report offers a deep dive into the challenges and opportunities facing HR teams, benchmarks for talent acquisition, and predictions for 2025.

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  • Businesses are focusing on speed, flexibility, and scalability to transform recruiting
  • AI and analytics technology is transforming the recruiting process
  • Remote, hybrid, and in-office models are expected to evolve 
  • Takeaways can help build a people-first recruiting strategy for 2025

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Introduction

The world of hiring has seen dramatic changes in recent years, with continuous evolution in the labor market altering how we live and work. Talent acquisition teams are increasingly adopting AI to augment manual tasks and leveraging analytics to free up time, focusing on improving candidate experience, fostering employer brand, and creating a people-first recruitment experience.

This report examines the challenges and opportunities HR teams have encountered in the past year, along with several recruiting metrics to help talent teams benchmark their performance against other organizations and industry standards. We also explore the outlook for the future of recruiting and provide takeaways to help you thrive in 2025.

Whether you’re a business leader wearing multiple hats or part of a talent acquisition team supporting an evolving organization, the Employ Recruiter Nation Report 2024 offers insights to help scale your business and provide solutions for both simple and complex needs. It aims to share insights that allow you to continually and confidently refine your approach to create a truly people-first hiring strategy.

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of hr decision makers

are optimistic about the future of recruiting, with 72% anticipating hiring somewhat more or significantly more in 2025
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of recruiters

using AI to augment the recruiting process are using it frequently or very frequently
 

41 Days

Time to fill roles

dropped by 7 days from 48 to 41

"Hearts and minds are won and lost in the acquisition process. That’s why a people-first experience is so essential. Giving talent acquisition teams more time to focus on building employer brand and cultivating relationships with candidates will positively impact both short- and long-term business results." Stephanie Manzelli CHRO, Employ

Report Methodology

The foundation of the Employ Recruiter Nation Report 2024 is a survey of over 1,200 HR decision makers and recruiters in North America conducted by Zogby Analytics in September 2024. It also leverages proprietary recruiting data from 22,000+ Employ customers and nearly 600 million candidate records from its JazzHR, Lever, and Jobvite solutions over a 12-month period. 

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