future of recruitment

© 2014, Future of Talent Institute

2014 Presented by Kevin Wheeler

The Future of Recruitment & the Impact of Technology


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“Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon … everything’s different.”

– Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes (by Bill Watterson)


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With personalized, automated assistance:

Technology is altering the roots of recruiting

Where is the talent?

How do we attract & Engage?

What the person’s

background?

Is the person

qualified?


The Augmented Individual

Internet & software are augmenting the human mind

The “Engine” of the 21st Century

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“Every experience is being mediated and conceived around how it can be captured and augmented by our devices." Mathias Crawford, Stanford University


FOUR LEADING TRENDS

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CONSOLIDATION ASSESSMENT ANALYTICS

RECRUITER SKILLS


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CONSOLIDATION


Fragmented Sources

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SOCIAL NETWORKS

JOB BOARDS

EVENTS

PUBLICATIONS

SEARCH


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SOCIAL NETWORKS

JOB BOARDS

EVENTS

PUBLICATIONS

SEARCH

Fragmented Sources Consolidating through Technology


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ASSESSMENT


The Future of Assessment is Automation

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Games

Simulations

Passive Analysis


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”The web is your CV and social

networks are your references.”


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ANALYTICS


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Many small experiments,

failures & gains

Xerox recently cut the attrition rate at its call centers by 20% by using big-data tools to staff its 48,700-person department.

Data + The aggregation of marginal gains

SUCCESSFUL TALENT STRATEGY


A Technology-Driven Strategy means. . .

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Limitless Candidates

Highest quality, Fastest speed

Improved candidate experience

What is the simplest solution to get the highest quality candidate?


Dealing with Ambiguity / Uncertainty

-Anticipating needs & emerging skills-Dealing with vast shortages and overages of talent.-Working with uncertain needs.


Dealing with Complexity

-Building resilience-Learning to ask the “right” questions.-Leveraging data and analytics


Dealing with Interdependencies

-Collaborating, forging alliances, nurturing networks.-Crowdsourcing candidates.-Work sharing


Fostering Creativity

“CEOs identify "creativity" as the most important leadership competency for the successful enterprise of the future.” -IBM's Institute for Business Value, May 2010

-Exploring, experimenting, being open to new, building diversity-Beyond Big Data – asking why?


Typical Recruiter 2020-2024

•  Is increasingly self-employed or “sometimes” employed-Cycles between projects & longer term contracts. .

•  Spend very little time interviewing, scheduling, or searching-Leverages technology to find, qualify & engage candidates

•  Uses data to design decisions -Experiments, tests hypotheses

•  Performance measured by:-engagement rate, social media, web presence, peer

comments, analysis of work output.

•  Workplace is:-anywhere - mobile/fixed/remote/virtual.

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future of recruitment

Recruiting & HR