Talview research reports on troubles & trends of the recruitment industry.

1. UNDERSTANDING
RECRUITMENT TROUBLES
AND TRENDS
RESEARCH FINDINGS FROM THE EMPLOYER’S PERSPECTIVE

2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Criteria to Hire
Current Recruitment Models
Challenges in Hiring
Solutions Considered
Future of Hiring
Summary of Findings
Research Methodology
About Us
Contact Us
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3. INTRODUCTION
• We undertook the survey to understand the
bottlenecks faced by recruiters in the hiring process.
Talview is committed toward improving the
experience of both recruiters and candidates. The
findings of the survey would be used by us to deliver
solutions to the recruitment problems and challenges
that the industry faces today.
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4. CRITERIA TO HIRE
• The respondents were asked to rate the criteria
that they would consider most important while
hiring candidates.
• All the five criteria's had a rating of more than
3.5 on 5
• The research indicates that all respondents
prefer a holistic evaluation of candidates
4.27
3.68
3.72
4.51
3.85
0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00
Technical
Cognitive
Behavioral
Experience
Qualification
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5. CURRENT RECRUITMENT MODELS
• The current trends show that 72% of the
recruiters use in house hiring to source the best
talent for their businesses
• Smaller organizations in general had hiring
manager sourced model
• Managed Service/RPO is a small fraction today
but many are considering this as an option
Hiring
Manager
Sourced
11%
In House
72%
Managed
Service/RPO
12%
others
5%
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6. CHALLENGES IN HIRING
Quality
Sourcing
Retention Cost Time to Hire Screening
44%
10%
14%
22%
10%
• Recruiters across sectors consider sourcing
quality candidates as their primary challenge
and this is also reflected in the importance they
are attributing to social networks for hiring.
• Issues like time to hire, and cost of hire are the
other major challenges.
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7. SOLUTIONS CONSIDERED
• Recruiting through social media and Referral
hiring are the major solutions that are
considered by employers today for sourcing.
• Online Video Interviews and Psychometric
Assessments are the most preferred screening
and selection techniques.
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17
50
11
31
50
30
48
21
3
Social Media Recruiting
Implementing an ATS
Referral Hiring
A Career Site
Onboarding Solution
Psychometric Assessments
Online Tests
Online Video Interviews
RPO
Others

8. FUTURE OF HIRING
• As technology continues to evolve, it plays an
increasingly important role in the way the
companies approach talent search and the
hiring process.
• Options like Social Recruitment, Virtual
Assessments and Interviews are seen as the
future of hiring process
• While recruiters think Artificial Intelligence &
Machine Learning Recruiters are important they
are unsure about how it can influence the way
they recruit
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
Marketing
for Quality
Inbound
Resume
AI
Technology
Social and
Professional
Network
Virtual
Interview
Others
14%
16%
36%
32%
2%
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9. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
The research indicates that all respondents prefer a holistic evaluation of
candidates
Managed Service/RPO is a small fraction today but many are considering this as an
option
Recruiters across sectors consider sourcing quality candidates as their primary
challenge
Video Interviews and Psychometric Assessments are the most preferred screening
and selection techniques
While recruiters think Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Recruiters are
important they are unsure about how it can influence the way they recruit
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10. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
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• This research was conducted between July and
August 2016. A questionnaire consisting of issues
related to hiring was sent to nearly 500 companies.
• A total of 210 respondents supplied information
relating to their organizations recruitment practices,
the challenges faced by them in their hiring process,
and the areas of improvements they are considering.
• The findings of the survey are based on the data
collected from the respondents

11. ABOUT US
• Talview is a leading HR technology solution provider which leverages NLP, Machine Learning, Video
Interviews and Psycholinguistics to build 3X better teams 4X faster. Talview globally have processed
more than a million candidates till date. Talview as an innovative, nimble organization is in pursuit of
disrupting the USD 500 billion global recruitment industry and to bring in efficiencies through the use of
latest technologies. Talview identified a strong market need for a cognitive solution, which can improve
the efficiency of hiring multi-fold and in the process help Talview to accelerate its fast growth further.
• It is the world’s first hiring solution that harnesses the power of advanced data science and machine
learning algorithms, video-audio analysis, social media analytics, psycholinguistics, speech recognition
along with the experience of enabling three million video responses to help companies build better
teams and gain competitive advantage.
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