Industry Research Summary: The Future of Talent Acquisition 2021

Succeed through speed, agility and quality

The Covid-19 pandemic brought in seismic changes in our workplaces, labor markets, and recruiting practices. Now with “the great American resignation” already in effect, many experts expect intense competition for talent in the coming months.

 
It is time for recruiting specialists to gear up their talent acquisition (TA) processes, priorities, and technologies, to keep their businesses running smoothly. To aid recruiting specialists in what may quickly become the single most critical role in their organizations, HR.com conducted a survey to get a snapshot of what TA looks like now and what HR professionals think it will look like in the future.

Here are the top findings from the study.

Only 18% of the responding HR professionals say their TA function is advanced or top-notch. About half of the respondents say their TA function is progressing, whereas 29% say it
is either improvisational or chaotic.

The need to hire quickly is the most widely cited driver of TA efforts, at 63%, closely followed by the need to add enough workers to support growth, at 62%. The biggest barriers to TA success are not being able to find the talent that meets the job requirements (61%) and not having the right skills in the applicant pool (46%).

The most widely used and accessed technologies today are:
 

The technologies that will be most important to TA over the next three years are:
 

However, only 18% say their TA technologies are very integrated with one another, and 39% say they are somewhat integrated.

To learn more about The State of Talent Acquisition 2021 survey and to get strategic outcomes and 9 key takeaways from this exclusive HR.com Research Institute research, please read the complete report here: