- Active Sourcing can help recruiters find candidates that are better match
- Detail team notes the lowest satisfaction with existing tools
- That and Marketing Team spend the most on new tools
Testgorilla’s latest report found that almost more than one in three (37%) US employment and recruiters are well prepared for AI, automation and advanced analysis.
This despite three -quarters (77%) of those who say active sourcing is ‘important’ or ‘very important’.
Although HR and recruiting professionals recognize the important thing about active sourcing, where teams go out and actively find candidates instead of waiting for people to apply, only 27% have actively picked up more than half of their employment.
HR and recruiting is due to a technological makeover
Talent collection teams are still struggling with key steps of the process, such as fighting to verify skills on CV (58%), identify whether candidates are in line with the corporate culture (47%) and finding qualified workers at all (43%).
IT organizations also noted outdated candidate data (44%) and integration holes between tools (48%) as major obstacles in a technically-first sector, while retail team reported the lowest satisfaction of sourcing tools (31% against 54% on average).
“[Sourcing teams are] Expected to deliver quality lines in a market where AI quickly transforms talent acquisitions, skills are more difficult to verify, and outdated tools cannot keep up, ”explained Test Gorilla CEO Wouter Durville.
Looking ahead, IT professionals expect more of a disturbance from AI and automation (54%) than they do qualifying deficiency (27%). This despite two out of three (67%) IT teams planning to invest in new sourcing technology within the next 12 months, with marketing team, most likely budgeting for new tools (75%).
“Better sourcing comes down to three things: smarter signals of skills and culture, tools that integrate seamlessly and clear ROI measurement so you can double what works and arrange what doesn’t,” Durville added.
