Marta Brockwell
Talent Acquisition Consultant
Siemens Mobility
Many recruiters would love to spend more time on strategic work and candidate interaction, but they’re bogged down by manual tasks every day.
Here’s a statistic that can keep recruiters up at night: the global talent shortage could reach 85.2 million people by 2030.
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In the quest to achieve efficiency via AI, many companies have acquired solutions without considering the human aspect and how they affect collaboration between co-workers, especially for interview scheduling. The work dynamics between humans and AI are often fraught with friction, leading to undesirable consequences. A 2017 IFS research report found that up to 45% of US respondents will consider changing jobs over bad software usability!
Recruitment was already much tougher in 2019 than it was in 2018—and 2020 looks to be no different. A McKinsey survey of senior leaders revealed that there will be a shortage of talent for around 16 to 18 million high-skill roles (especially those with expertise in specific tech verticals) this year in Europe and the United States.
If you’re a recruiter, finding the right talent probably keeps you up at night. After all, you’re racing against time—each day a vacancy remains unfilled could be costing your company $500 or more a day. That’s at least $15,000 dollars if the position remains unfilled for a month. Now, multiply that number by dozens of vacancies, and you can see how that can snowball into significant costs for the company in the span of a year.
