2025 Talent Acquisition Predictions and Resolutions Part 1

Welcome to 2025 to all of our Job Board Doctor friends and family! We are back at it after much needed time away enjoying time with our kiddos, family and friends.

To launch our first calendar year as the New Job Board Doctor team, we decided to ask serious industry veterans and up-and-comers for their 2025 talent acquisition predictions and resolutions.

We got so many responses we can not fit them into one post. Let’s do this!

Shelley Billinghurst, Hire Value, Inc. 

Prediction:

Online traffic brokers are on the brink of a steep decline. Corporations are prioritizing quality over quantity when it comes to applicants and are willing to pay for it. AND with the shift in job seekers’ behavior, led by Gen Z, has made candidates more adept at identifying scams and determining which job boards are trustworthy. As candidates share their experiences openly online, niche job boards with a focus on the candidate experience will spark a revolution. – Shelley Billinghurst, President Hire Value, Inc.

The Louises, Job Boards Connect

Prediction:

We foresee 2025 bringing further consolidation in the job board space, driven by increasing competition and the rapid advancements of AI tech and companies. This shift is also fueled by the demand for more integrated platforms that deliver better value and more compelling products to customers and job seekers. – Louise Grant and Louise Triance, Job Boards Connect

Bill Fanning, CEO TALK Talent

Prediction:

In 2025, talent acquisition will see a bigger shift toward AI and automation, which will help streamline processes like candidate screening and onboarding. I feel companies will focus more on diversity, equity, and inclusion, using tools to reduce bias and build diverse talent pipelines.

Recruiting must assess candidates’ ability to thrive in virtual teams and tap into the global talent pool to solve the lack of candidate issues with remote and hybrid work growing. Skills-based hiring will become more common as employers prioritize practical skills over traditional degrees, and resumes are becoming pointless.  Finally, offering a great candidate experience and strong employer branding is key to attracting top talent. – Bill Fanning, CEO TALK Talent

Matt Farrah, Founder Nurses.co.uk

Prediction:

The UK healthcare recruitment sector will continue to overcome the two chief challenges it was facing in 2024: severe shortage of talent, and  increased pressure on recruitment budgets. As for recruitment agencies in healthcare…2025 will be the year where there will be the beginnings of green shoots after a very difficult time for agencies providing both full time and temp staff to the NHS, private healthcare and care homes. – Matt Farrah, Founder Nurses.co.uk

Peter Weddle, CEO TATech

Prediction:

My unabashedly optimistic prediction for 2025 is that we’ll see a robust labor market beginning in Q1 and that someone will develop an AI-based solution to the AI-caused problem of application bots to ensure employers use online recruitment advertising as their core talent acquisition strategy. – Peter Weddle, CEO TAtech

Shauna Cole, President Hire Diverse

Resolution:

Looking ahead to 2025, we’ll see which organizations truly value diversity and inclusion in their recruitment efforts. With political shifts across Canada and the US, some are stepping back from DEI. My resolution is to support both employers and job seekers who prioritize diversity and inclusion, sharing insights and fostering inclusion every step of the way—even if it means challenging norms along the way. – Shauna Cole, President HireDiverse

Lauri Koop, CEO Aimwell

Prediction:

The disruption will continue. I would predict that aggregators will continue to be challenged in 2025 as we saw that several other media types (e.g. Search, Social, etc.) are often able to outperform the industry work-horses Aggregators. According to staffing industry analysis the job advertising market declined in ’23 and expectation was that this will slow down also in ’24. The biggest drop was for aggregators with -15% in ’23 (continued in ’24) – it is likely that Job Advertising dollars will move partly to other channels as those improve with volume + quality. Lauri Koop, CEO Aimwel

Hell of a way to start the year and this is just part 1!  Next week, you will hear from even more industry vets and new voices – including Tim Sackett, Rhea Moss, Laura Wilson, Martin Lenz and many more.

Got a prediction or a resolution you want to share? Tell me!

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