2025 Talent Acquisition Predictions and Resolutions Part 2
2025 Talent Acquisition Predictions and Resolutions Part TWO: And we start out with not one, but two predictions from my favorite iCIMS data guru, Rhea Moss. Let’s go!
Rhea Moss, iCIMS
Predictions:
Data: Recruiters will stop using time to fill to measure success since hiring times have remained steady and unvarying —hovering at a little under six weeks—from the Great Resignation four years ago through the current Big Stay.
Labor Market: With over one third of people saying they plan to look for a new job in 2025, quit rates will be on the rise in 2025. To avoid the Great Resignation 2.0. employers need to invest in their internal talent and provide clear pathways for growth and skills development to encourage them to stay’ – Rhea Moss, Global Head of Workforce and Customer Insights, iCIMS
Chris Long, Elev8
Prediction:
Strategic Workforce Planning becomes more prominent for organisations as everyone looks to what Workplace, Workforce & Work looks like with AI. – Chris Long, Founder, Elev8
Lieven Van Nieuwenhuyze, House of HR
(Snarky) Prediction:
Most players in the staffing industry will double, or even triple their growth this year. Which is kind of a bummer for the biggest companies because their growth was negative… – Lieven Van Nieuwenhuyze, Group Chief Digital Officer & Public Affairs, House of HR
Rayanne Thorn Krueger, intrepidMEDIA
Prediction:
MEI will fail as valued employees reject the further shift away from DEI+B. HR may start to push back at exec teams as hiring authorities see ground level job openings (not enough applicants) and management roles (salaries too low) not being filled, and the losses associated with protracted vacancies. There will not be an easy or cost-effective way toward total organizational success on the other side of the curve. Industry 4.0 will only benefit the bottom line briefly – Rayanne Thorn Krueger, Industry Vet, Writer and Podcaster, intrepidMEDIA
Steven Rothberg, Inside Job Boards and Recruitment Marketplaces Podcast
Prediction:
The consolidation that we’re seeing in the job board / recruitment marketplace world with larger, profitable players buying smaller, less profitable players will occur in closely related industries whose revenues are driven by ours. Examples of some of these closely related industries are job board software providers and job board conferences. – Steven Rothberg,
Laura Wilson, Jobs in Education
Prediction:
Graduate job seekers in the education sector will see a growing number of opportunities across Canada this year. As competition among employers intensifies, building strong brand visibility and awareness both online and offline will be essential. Employers will need to take a proactive, multi-channel approach by leveraging niche job boards and social platforms to reach job seekers effectively and ensure they are aware of all opportunities available to them. – Laura Wilson, CEO, Jobs in Education
Tim Sackett, HRU Technical Resources
Prediction:
My talent acquisition prediction for 2025 is that interviewing becomes super important again. As candidates use AI to craft resumes to exactly match jobs and apply for jobs, and companies use AI to match candidates to jobs. Recruiters and TA teams will have to double down on really great interviewing to understand who is for real and who was created by AI. This will make interview technologies even more important to incorporate to ensure great, consistent interviews happen. – Tim Sackett, President, HRU Technical Resources
Adam Gordon, Poetry
Prediction:
The number of recruiters focused on traditional tasks such as sourcing and interviewing will decrease this year. However, more varied and interesting roles will emerge in recruiting teams in areas such as branding, data analysis, experience design and tech management. – Adam Gordon, Co-Founder, Poetry – Recruiter Enablement Technology
Martin Lenz, Jobiqo
Prediction:
Social recruiting will continue to be a game changer, offering access to both active and passive candidates while boosting ad performance. Platforms like Duunitori in Northern Europe and HeyJobs in Germany demonstrate how combining programmatic job advertising with social media can disrupt large markets by targeting passive candidates effectively. Jobiqo empowers customers to build fully integrated solutions to leverage these new opportunities and unlock growth. –Martin Lenz, CEO, Jobiqo
Stephen O’Donnell, TAtech
Prediction:
Skills-based hiring is emerging as a priority for TA departments, even though it is not yet a major focus for technology firms. This disconnect presents both a challenge and an opportunity for the industry. As TA professionals advocate for technologies that support skills-based hiring, tech providers will need to adapt and innovate to meet this demand. – Stephen O’Donnell, Chief Growth Officer, TAtech
George LaRocque, WorkTech
Prediction:
By 2025’s end, the job board industry will see increased consolidation due to AI search advances, with employers shifting to direct talent searches in online communities and social media across all workforce levels. Job boards won’t disappear, but a major recruitment marketing spending shift is expected. – George LaRocque,
Rodion Telpizov, SmartJobBoard
Prediction:
As we enter the new year, influential advances in talent acquisition are on the horizon. The job board landscape will continue to evolve, driven significantly by AI innovations. Advanced AI will enhance the curation of job opportunities by providing hyper-personalized job recommendations, created according to career history, soft skills and cultural fit—helping candidates and employers make better matches.
This personalized approach will likely extend into career development processes, as professional associations embrace AI-based career coaching platforms to provide individualized career plans and coaching, democratizing access to professional growth resources. Semantic search engines will also gain prominence as job boards leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to understand query context better and streamline the delivery of highly relevant job matches. Specialized job boards that are tailored to specific industries, roles and career stages will gain momentum as well, aligning with the continued evolution of modern job board technologies. – Rodion Telpizov, CEO and Founder of SmartJobBoard
Syed Aiyaz, TheStaffingCircle
Prediction:
The 2025 focus of employers and agencies are in implementing AI for sourcing and screening applicants to reduce turnaround time and ensuring quality ultimately reducing recruiting and hiring costs across industries and verticals. Many companies are open to incorporate AI into their recruitment strategy to publish jobs, screen candidates, streamline recruitment and hiring needs to bring down dependency on human resources on task. Artificial intelligence and machine learning can perform at 100x speed and accuracy. – Syed Aiyaz, Founder TheStaffingCircle
Ethan Bloomfield, VitalFew
Predictions: 3. Data. Data. Data: Always near and dear to my heart and now more important, accessible and usable than ever before. Data will be front and center for both our own businesses AND for our client’s businesses who will continue to rely and more and better data to improve they way they do business. Data feeds the machines we are building – gobble, gobble, gobble more data. – Ethan Bloomfield, CEO and Founder, VitalFew
Prediction:As part of the StepUp Startups project, the European Commission are working toward fixing regulatory inconsistencies, funding gaps, and limited cross-border cooperation throughout the EU. They’re also building an interconnected startup network, leveraging the strengths of local ecosystems while fostering pan-European collaboration and streamlining regulatory frameworks, enhancing access to funding, and promoting knowledge-sharing among ecosystems.
So Europe, mainly the EU in this case, are focused on helping startups in countries throughout the EU to become more competitive through establishing more straight-forward standards.
What’s going to be…the.. driving.. force to push funding dollars to Europe? Pain and Chaos… Pain and Chaos is coming to America.
What do investors hate? Chaos… Investors want a smooth ride, as smooth as they can muster with a startup. Face it there’s already enough risk investing in a startup, so why enhance the risk without the actual reward? Nope, that’s dumb, which is why many investors will start to see what you and I have been experiencing for years now. European startups are pretty damned innovative and as America turns into a broligarchy – billionaires and bigger companies are just going to stamp out the little guy…. and because of all this — My first prediction is that European startup funding grows 3x YoY in 2025. – Chad Sowash, President and Co-Founder, Catch 22 Group and Host, Chad and Cheese Podcast
Catch all of Chad and Cheese’s 2025 predictions here.
WOW! Those are some serious predictions. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts. Back next week with the latest TA Tech news and guidance to make 2025 the best yet!
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