The biggest recruiting trends this year

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, the job market has seen unemployment swing from half-century lows to record highs in a matter of weeks, leaving hiring managers scrambling to adapt.

But working from home has provided companies with a silver lining, says Andy Valenzuela, chief human resources officer at HireVue, a recruiting platform. Hiring managers have been able to broaden their recruitment efforts, no longer constrained by a location-specific applicant pool.

The integration of more tech in the hiring process is hardly a new industry trend. The speed at which companies have begun incorporating it into their recruiting efforts, however, has been exacerbated by current events.

“Do I think that the adoption of video interviewing or the adoption of remote work would have happened in time? Absolutely,” Valenzuela says. “What [COVID] did is brought it to top of mind and required it almost immediately.”

Paola Peralta
Associate Editor

Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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