Biggest Recruitment Challenges Identified by Jibe Talent Acquisition Survey

 Recruiting technology solutions provider Jibe, Inc. has released its Jibe Talent Acquisition survey of over 100 in-house recruiting professionals. The survey identifies the obstacles faced by recruiters as they investment more in technology solutions and seek improved data and analytics. The survey showed that many of the technology solutions adopted by recruiters has actually hindered success as they were reported to be difficult to use, incapable of providing the necessary data, and a general lack of integration across platforms.

The survey found that “quality of hire” is considered the most important measure of success even as nearly 75 percent of recruiters said that they are unable to measure that quality as part of an ROI analysis. Other key findings of the survey include:

• 35 percent of respondents spend more on technology than anything else but 46 percent reported being dissatisfied with their current technology. An additional 27 percent said that their current technology gets in the way of satisfactorily doing their jobs.

• About 75 percent of recruiters agreed that a lack of technology integration has led to the inability to get “talent lifecycle” data from their systems. Over half said that measuring the quality of hire requires that lifecycle data.

• 47 percent of recruiters said that the most valuable upgrade they could receive is the integration of their recruiting and HR systems.

• 80 percent of recruiters stated that the candidate experience is a crucial part of their hiring practices, but 44 percent said they struggle to improve in that area.

“The recruiting market is in the midst of a massively significant sea change. With increasing strategic importance placed on talent acquisition and HR groups, a raft of new and old technologies to manage, the rise of big data and recruiting analytics, and the ever-elusive chase for the optimal candidate experience, today’s recruiting landscape is as challenging as ever,” said Alison Shurell, Chief Marketing Officer for Jibe. “As such, it’s extremely important for us, in order to maintain and grow our leadership position serving this market, to understand how staffing professionals are dealing with these changes, what their greatest challenges are, and what solutions they need to overcome them.”