Recruitment HR Trends
The recruitment is one of the most innovative HR Processes. The Internet changed the whole recruitment industry from one day to another as the people discovered the speed and simplicity of the Internet job portals and they started to apply for not just one single job, but they applied for many jobs at once. The recruitment process had to be adjusted as the HR stayed trendy.
Today, some form of the traditional recruitment approaches are almost dead. Who reads newspapers and looks for the job by the mail? When did you send your last letter (handwritten)? Do you fax today?
The trend in the recruitment industry was about the speed and simplicity of the recruitment process for the customers. The job applicants were ruling the playground and the companies were lost in thousands of useless job resumes.
The HR Trend changed as the organization wanted to use the internet recruitment with the value added and several solutions evolved, but they are not that success as they wanted to be. The winners of the war are the social networking sites. The social networking site offered the recruitment as a value added and it was no the initial goals for most of them. It is a trendy danger to them as well as the best job candidates can start to disappear. They are attacked by many job offers and they just want to meet their old school friends.
The next trend in the recruitment and staffing will be about a higher granularity of the job websites as the specialized web sites will definitely discover their potential to recommend the best people to the organization. The people will be specifically targeted by the specialized headhunters, who will have the benefit of knowing them all personally and the recommendation of the headhunter will be taken as the main recommendation.
The organizations have to monitor the modern HR trends in the recruitment area. They should adapt their processes to build from the modern trends the additional recruitment sources, but... The modern recruitment sources should not become just the only recruitment sources for the organization. Sometimes, the newspaper advertising still works best.
