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Effective recruiter-hiring manager relationships increase productivity and decrease time-to-hire. They drive better hiring decisions, boost your talent brand, and give TA greater visibility in the business as a whole. What’s more, they’re a necessity at a time when TA must act as a strategic partner to the business—rather than a reactive support member—if the company is going to meet its hiring goals in this ultra-competitive market. Here's how to strategically collaborate with your HMs.

Three broad trends emerged from this year’s survey responses: (1) Data becomes the competitive advantage; (2) A continued commitment to (and challenges of) diversity hiring; (3) A growing focus on employer branding and candidate experience. It’s time to find out what’s changed in today’s talent acquisition landscape, reassess your company’s strategy, and prepare for what may lie ahead.

2022 is a candidate’s market. Talent is considering their options, and recruiting teams are struggling to compete against simultaneous offers. The two things organizations can do right now are to offer excellent candidate experiences, and to forge strong talent brands. Here's how your peers are thinking about those things in 2022.

In Gem's 2022 trends survey, we found that enterprise recruiting teams are responding to "the candidates' market" by focusing on elements of the candidate experience they have agency over (speed and efficiency of the process, candidate communication, etc.), alongside data to drive insights and build longer-term relationships with talent. Here's what your enterprise peers are thinking about, and what they're acting on.

In Gem’s recent survey, talent professionals across the board ranked “diversity hiring” as the most important trend in the recruiting industry for 2022. What’s more, “difficulty meeting diversity goals” was among the top-3 challenges TA professionals anticipate their organizations will experience in 2022. Here’s what else your peers had to say about diversity recruiting and hiring in 2022.

62% of talent acquisition professionals see "data-driven recruiting" as one of the most critical trends of 2022, and 73% of enterprise talent leaders said data would be vital to staying competitive this year. Read the report to see what metrics your peers are tracking, and determine what data you need to flourish in 2022 and beyond.

Is your recruiting team equipped to meet this year's hiring goals? A robust capacity model can help you understand your team’s past performance to forecast headcount and resources against future growth. We talked to talent leaders from established companies like Box, Twilio, and more to learn how they approach capacity planning, and present you with an 8-step guide to this process.

This “Great Resignation” is both a catalyst for and the result of a highly competitive recruiting environment, shifting employee preferences, record rates of entrepreneurship, compensation inflation, and more. All of these factors are pushing us to transition into a new era of how, where, and when we work. Download this ebook and learn how recent workforce trends such as employee retention and recruiting are impacting technology companies - and how leaders are adapting.

We dug into U.S. Census Bureau data to give recruiting teams the demographics of available tech talent in a handful of geos so they can set market-based diversity goals. We recommend you first try to match the market, then beat it; so we included a Diversity Goaling Playbook to show you how to use that demographic data to inform a broader diversity strategy.

How does your recruiting performance stack up against industry benchmarks? Our 2021 Recruiting Benchmarks Report draws from nearly 2 million email outreach sequences and nearly 12 million candidates who entered our customers’ hiring processes. Compare your recruiting numbers to industry averages to decide what you need to improve to remain competitive.

Organizations that increase diversity by 10% can see their profitability grow by 8% according to Mckinsey & Company’s studies of diversity. In the Ultimate Diversity Recruiting Toolkit, you will find information, tools, and resources to build a high-quality, diverse talent pool, a more inclusive hiring process, and a culture that retains your top talent.

What is recruiting operations? Why is it so critical to a modern TA function? What's the scope of its responsibilities, and what do its KPIs look like? How do you break into the role? Hear from Ops professionals at FullStory, DoorDash, Bain & Company and more, for insights into how their orgs are thinking about the RecOps function, their journeys to their respective roles, and what they’ve learned along the way.