Digital Recruitment: 5 Trends in Digital Hiring

Many recruitment agencies still use outdated and traditional hiring methods, making it harder to recruit and retain high-quality talent and digital natives. It's more effective to further digitize the hiring process.

1. Virtual Reality (VR)

VR delivers positive impressions, even though it's expensive to integrate. Some companies offer a VR demonstration of company culture.

2. Artificial Intelligence (AI)

AI plays an increasingly larger role in finding new talent and offers data-driven insights. A few interesting AI tools:

• Sentiment analysis — screens job descriptions for tone of voice and language use.
• Chatbots — screen for communication skills and soft skills early in the process.
• Skill-based matching — matches candidates to vacancies based on skills.

3. Database

Most agencies' databases contain data on thousands of candidates, yet recruiters still source from scratch for every new vacancy.

4. Social media

Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and LinkedIn are all suitable for recruiting the best talent.

5. Look for candidates who aren't (yet) sufficiently qualified

The latest trend is to leave out job titles or specifications, to encourage people to apply for roles above their current knowledge level.