Back to all articles As we enter a new year, we thought we’d take a quick look at emerging recruitment trends in 2023 that may help you to enjoy a more successful recruiting experience for any upcoming roles…
Recruitment isn’t just about getting someone with the right skills, experience and attitude to do the job – it’s about retention and attrition too. Getting the right candidate is also about what you can offer as a company, so keeping up with recruitment trends is essential if you’re going to attract and keep good employees to help you build your business.
In an ever-changing landscape, here are five emerging trends well worth implementing into your own strategy that will lead to successful recruiting in the current climate.
1. Hybrid and flexible working
A trend accelerated through the pandemic, 2023 is the year of flexible working options from the start – especially with upcoming changes in related legislation. While home working may not be an option in some cases, it’s worth reviewing your policies and thinking about how you can make even on-site roles more flexible e.g. staggered start/finish times, split-breaks etc.
2. Salary transparency
While for some a career change may be based on overall job satisfaction or developmental growth, for others, pay is a huge motivational factor. So if you’re not stating a salary during your recruitment process, you could be missing out on some great candidates. Transparency matters, and shows you’re upfront, open and understand the value of the right employee – even if you state a broader scale in order to leave you with some essential wiggle-room, it’s worth considering adding pay ranges to your recruitment adverts.
3. Brand reputation
Well-known and trusted brands attract better candidates, period. But we’re not just talking from a consumer/customer point of view. Being recognised as a great company to work for will help you to capture a broader audience from a recruitment perspective too. Get yourself over to Glassdoor if you’ve not already, and harness the power of LinkedIn, by producing ‘employee spotlight’ posts that highlight worker’s roles and give them a chance to have their say about their experiences within your company.
4. Inclusivity
Socioeconomic, ethnic and gender diversity within the workplace doesn’t tend to get measured, but this is one emerging recruitment trend worth getting behind. Tracking diversity and inclusion offers lots of benefits, helping you to create a better workforce who will increase innovation, relate to different audiences and improve your business in many other ways.
5. Gear up for Gen Z
The new wave of workforce candidates comes from Generation Z – the internet savvy, always online, consistently connected and fast-paced thinkers and doers who want to work for companies that understand the new world. If you’re stuck in the dark ages with your approach, tech, systems or policies, now’s the time to review, re-group and re-engage on more modern terms. These candidates are the future of successful recruiting, shaping your business to meet current and upcoming expectations of great communication, diversity, flexibility and collaboration – with everything available at a few mouse-clicks or screen-touches.
So there we have it – five fantastic recruitment trends to help you achieve your most successful recruiting year ever in 2023.