We are approaching completion of another hectic and ever-changing recruitment year.

We asked 15 recruitment market professionals to think about how 2023 will enter into the history books and what you can take along with you for 2024.

Unsurprisingly, when we asked our professionals about the most considerable modifications in recruitment in 2023, the words popping up in the word cloud were AI, automation and the changes in skills and company branding.

Let's dive into what 15 recruitment specialists needed to say in the 2023 Teamdash survey.

The rise of AI and automation in recruitment

The concentrate on automation has actually been evident in the past years, and rightfully so. Recruitment innovation is more offered, accessible and versatile than ever.

This year, AI took a significant step ahead in recruitment and has been incorporated into recruitment software, consisting of Teamdash.

We recently celebrated one year of ChatGPT - the notorious AI tool discussed at every table this year. ChatGPT and other AI tools are utilized by both recruiters and candidates, raising concerns about how it affects the recruitment procedure and how to maintain ethical and human elements in the decision-making.

At Teamdash, our philosophy has constantly been that the employer must be at the guiding wheel and in control, and technology is simply a to arrive much faster, much safer and more comfortably. And it should bring on and be transparent in the recruitment performance metrics.

AI resembles your co-pilot - you're in control, offering commands and deciding.

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Renita Käsper, Global Director of Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding at HRS Group

Talent acquisition and recruitment has been a relatively early adopter of Expert system. AI assists recruiters to work smarter, not harder, automate repetitive tasks, make it faster and much easier to source prospects, write task advertisements, launch employer branding campaigns, and engage with prospects, to call just a couple of. AI continues to develop and automate everyday tasks. Recruiters may be able to take a lot of repeated things off their plates and focus on the more human aspects of recruiting.

Keter Luhaorg, Recruitment Partner at Euronics

I started using several AI-powered tools in recruitment, always guaranteeing ethical practices, obviously. Learning the essential prompts not just made my job simpler, however likewise showed exceptionally fascinating. Embracing ethical AI tools entirely transformed my method to recruitment: Automated Resume Screening: quickly matching prospect qualifications with task requirements. Chatbot support: guides candidates, answers FAQs, and schedules interviews effortlessly.

In 2023, we experienced the development of the requirement to headhunt talents rather than fill the functions of actively applying people. At the same time, the increased flow of using prospects looked like a favorable change, but in fact, it did more operate in regards to the need to respond to everybody, evaluate each profile's viability to the function and send more rejection emails.

The effectiveness increase that the AI and automation tools supplied allowed us to make the process much faster and more consistent. We achieved an improvement in the Time to Hire metric and the drop in Voluntary Turnover, and, at the exact same time - a boost in staff member NPS.

Lauryna Gireniene, Head of Talent Acquisition at Nord Security

In 2023 our hiring rate from candidates increased by 25% - to increase employing rates, you need to ensure the best prospect experience by utilizing automations and AI.

Tools you need for successful recruitment in 2024

Recruiters without updated tools and software application have a clear disadvantage compared to the ones who have actually embraced a detailed tech stack.

All the experts who reacted to our study mentioned having an excellent and contemporary ATS as the first essential tool in 2024.

Teamdash is recruitment software developed by recruiters for recruiters, and we understand how irritating it is dealing with innovation that does not fit your workflows.

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That's why Teamdash is highly customisable and includes various automation possibilities and (AI-powered) tools that make your work easier - an interview scheduler, a task ad landing page tool, the inclusive language checker, AI-powered Candidate Summaries and video interviewing alternatives, among others. The recruitment control panel gives you a birds-eye overview of your entire recruitment process. The Recruitment Performance tab offers you a visual introduction of important recruitment metrics so you can be more strategic in your everyday work.

We covered choosing the best ATS for your requirements and business at one of our webinars in 2023. You can view it as needed on Livestorm.

Having the right tools helps us adjust to the marketplace changes we experienced in 2023 and be proactive in 2024. Here are some recommendations from our specialists:

My must-have tools are Proficient at, Chat GPT (or similar), and LinkedIn.

Jane Pettit, Business Growth Coach and Recruitment Team Trainer at Centred Excellence

For recruiters in 2024, must-have tools consist of innovative AI-driven Applicant Tracking Systems, advanced candidate assessment software, diverse and inclusive job advertising platforms, data analytics tools for talent acquisition insights, and virtual truth user interfaces for immersive prospect experiences, emphasising performance, fairness, and engagement in the recruitment procedure.

Piret Ulm, Partner Relations Lead at TalentHub

I personally believe you will fall too far behind the curve if you do not make AI work for you. There are still too lots of recruiters not making the most of innovation. You do not need to master them all, however get an excellent grounding on triggers and validation as a minimum. AI is as trusted as Wikipedia - you require to do the fact-check.

Danas Venclovas, Head of Talent Acquisition at Luminor Group

ATS, Magical Text Expander, DeepL, Grammarly, and templates to make day-to-day tasks faster.

Rethinking and redesigning your company brand name to adjust to the changes

The nature of work and the expectations towards the office and employer have considerably moved in the past years. There is likewise a generational modification in the workforce - Gen Z is going into the workforce as a part of the Boomer generation is retiring.

To keep up and exceed these expectations and keep employing and keeping leading talent, companies have to rethink their company brand and offering. At our end-of-the-year webinar, Kaarel Holm from MeetFrank shared that the Pareto principle uses in their user base - 20% of the finest employers get 80% of the candidates. No employer wants to miss out on out on employing the very best talent.

To become one of the very best, transparency is expected throughout all stages of the skill method. This implies leveraging the ideal innovation and tools to support human proficiencies and constructing a strong company brand name based upon them.

Diversity (DEI), flexibility, transparency and the increase of relatable organisations are the keywords in focus for employer brands in 2024.

We've seen a great deal of modification throughout 2023.

- Firstly, the need for the office on a versatile basis has actually picked up. While completely remote and remote-first opportunities remain dominant among jobseekers, employment hybrid roles are ending up being progressively popular.

Our Q3 Flexible Working Index (a report which tracks progressing patterns across the flexible tasks market) exposed a sharp shift far from remote work among employers - completely remote roles represented simply 4% of task posts between July and September, on average.

Meanwhile, jobseekers’ demand for remote work remains strong, but our information shows that the more flexibility companies offer staff around working places, the more popular they are among candidates.

- Secondly, the conventional work week has actually considerably developed over the previous year.

The traditional Mon-Fri is taking a backseat. Increasingly more business are presenting an alternative method, that includes variations of the 4-day week, the 4.5-day week, and the 9-day fortnight. Demand for the 4-day work week has escalated, with an average of 47.4% of Flexa users noting it as their preferred way of working during October. During the same period, 37.5% chosen the 4.5-day week as their choice, and 14.1% specified the 9-day fortnight was theirs.

Kayleigh Little, Recruitment Automation Expert at Teamdash

Maintaining your employer brand name whilst recruitment is low is KEY! You need to be constantly sharing things with your audience so when recruitment picks back up you are not essentially going back to square one. Technology will permit you to genuinely make data-driven choices whilst having the ability to track candidates, elevate your company branding and master recruitment marketing.

Recruiter skillset in 2024

In the last few years, we have actually seen a lift in skill- and value-based hiring. Companies are now actively upskilling their existing workforce and working with new staff members to fill the ability spaces.

This likewise indicates recruiters should adjust their abilities to match the requirements. Recruiters need a mix of exceptional soft abilities and tough abilities to be successful in 2024 and beyond. A successful employer in 2024 is a fantastic communicator and facilitator who understands how to offer the role and the company, works with information and data to believe tactically, and adapts rapidly to the changes in the market.

Again, proactively dealing with establishing these skills further and using innovation assists remain on top of the recruitment video game.

In the past couple of years, we have seen recruitment becoming more and more strategic and data-driven. HR professionals have actually become the leaders of this shift and the brand-new talent techniques.

We more than happy to see that Teamdash users are actively dealing with the data available for them in the Recruitment efficiency tab and have made checking it a part of their everyday routine. This has actually assisted them discover new methods to simplify the procedure and automate tiresome tasks, making more time for activities that develop worth.

The new skillset lines up with the difficulties that 2023 has brought and will continue to 2024.

- We have actually seen an increase in the number of prospects however still have problems getting enough qualified candidates