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Top 3 recruitment trends for 2021 : what did you notice ?
Earlier in the year news site of the Australian HR Institute HRM talked about some of the things that were shaping up to be big recruitment trends in 2021 . Did you notice any of these trends this year ? HRM spoke with three experts about their top 3 recruitment trends for 2021 :
Diversify your talent pools 2020 saw the amount of job listings being posted to job advertisement websites like Seek and Indeed take a significant drop . And to make up for their losses last year , these job advertisement sites are raising the cost of posting a job opening .
The obvious pitfall of this price increase is that it ’ s more expensive to get the word out there , but it also makes it harder to get approval from your company . With higher price points , this might have changed how your company went about advertising the job opening .
Ineke McMahon , director at P2P Learning & Development Academy , said recruiters should start utilising LinkedIn to search for candidates . LinkedIn is already a popular platform for this but it can be tricky to find the right candidate . McMahon says it ’ s important for employers to start honing their LinkedIn research skills to find the right person for the role .
Embrace virtual Vanessa Fajnkind , CEO of Brook Recruitment , made her company ’ s recruitment processes virtual in 2020 and although she ’ s based in Melbourne , she can place hire candidates in other states with the help of video conferencing .
Zoom meetings and interviews have become part of the new norm with most workers participating in a virtual interview more often than face-to-face .
While Zoom follows the traditional model of having an interviewer and interviewee present , there is new technology that can speed up the interviewing process even more .
AVI ( automated video interviews ) are becoming much more common . AVI ’ s don ’ t require a physical interviewer to be present and instead a question will pop up on screen and the interviewee ’ s answer will be recorded for review at a later time .
“ In one assignment we video screened 20 candidates . I think we saved about 4 hours of time ,” says McMahon . “ It also made rejecting candidates a lot easier , as we could give specific examples of how they answered the questions versus the shortlisted candidates .”
Is ageism on the rise ? Unfortunately , not all recruitment trends in a post-COVID world were positive and the rise of ageism was one that needed to be closely monitored . Diversity Australia CEO ,
Steven Asnicar , says he ’ s noticed a worrying trend where employers think candidates over 40 are at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 and are using that as an excuse not to hire them .
While this is obviously a discriminatory problem , it ’ s also a missed opportunity for employers . Older candidates bring a wealth of knowledge and experience that could highly benefit the business . Asnicar was worried that this trend would only worsen with the government ’ s introduction of the JobMaker Hiring Credit scheme , which offered employers a financial incentive to employ candidates aged 16-35 before 6 October 2021 .
Recruitment took a big hit last year and it was expected that this year would see a rise in both jobseekers and companies looking to rebuild their talent pools . Did your company ’ s recruitment process take part in any of these trends ? Remember to always uphold equal employment opportunities . S
12 Executive PA | Summer Issue 2021