6 Recruiting Statistics You Need to Know Heading Into 2027
What percentage of organizations increased hiring over the past year? How are recruiters actually using AI? And what’s causing the most stress for teams? We’ll give you a hint: The…
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Two Sides of the Interview Table: What Recruiters and Job Seekers Want Each Other to Know
On one side of the interview table: a recruiter trying to find the right candidate for an open req their hiring manager needed filled last Friday. On the other:…
“Speaking C-Suite:” Aligning HR’s Data with the Bottom Line
Imagine you’re in an executive meeting, and your CEO turns to you and asks, “How is hiring impacting the business?” How do you answer? If your first instinct is to pull up your latest dashboard on…
The Great Pause, Trust, and Why Candidates Are Thinking Twice
When we introduced the concept of the “Great Pause” in this year’s Job Seeker Nation Report, the obvious takeaway was that fewer people were looking for jobs. In plain terms,…
One Market, Two Realities: Desk-Based vs. Frontline Candidates
Not all candidates are experiencing today’s job market the same way—and that has big implications for how you hire. Employ’s 2025 Job Seeker Nation Report—their annual survey of 1,500+…
Cautious but Curious: How Candidates View the Job Market
Job seeker insights are recruiting gold. Knowing what candidates want, expect, and value most can level up every part of your hiring game—from clearer job descriptions to better interviews to…
Maximize Recruiting ROI: 10 Strategic Investments for Better Hiring
The pressure to find, attract, and hire exceptional talent never eases. Yet many organizations still rely on fragmented, reactive recruiting strategies that drain resources and burn out teams. The key…
The Science of Candidate Targeting: Building Strategic Talent Pipelines
Here’s a recruiting puzzle you might recognize: 33% of companies struggle to find talent, while 26% are buried in applications. The problem? It’s not about casting a wider net, but…
9 Key Areas to Focus on When Optimizing Talent Acquisition Technology
To help enterprise-level companies optimize their talent acquisition technology, we asked industry experts for their advice and received nine insightful answers. From integrating staffing agency tools to facilitating global hiring,…
3 Key Takeaways from our Shaping the Future of Work Webinar
Recently, Employ’s CHRO, Stephanie Manzelli, moderated a discussion between industry experts George LaRocque, Founder and Chief Analyst of WorkTech, Jason Pistulka, AVP of Talent Acquisition at HCA Healthcare, and Terry…