5 Pro Tips to Improve Your Virtual Recruitment Process
Remote work is rising more rapidly than ever. In a special analysis performed by FlexJobs and Global Workplace Analytics between 2005 and 2017, there was a 159% increase in remote work. By 2019 there were 4.7 million people in the U.S. working remotely. Stay at home orders in early 2020 pushed virtual recruitment to spike inevitably higher. Now, the trend has a more permanent outlook. Approximately 75 million U.S. employees (82%) say they want to continue working from home, at least weekly, when stay at home orders are lifted, according to a June 2020 Global Workplace Analytics report. Similarly, because remote work has opened up previously unavailable talent pools to hiring teams, 64% of hiring managers in Cielo’s 2020 The Future of Work Survey are now more willing to consider remote workers. Another 94% expect remote work to become a key feature of workforces moving forward. The virtual recruitment revolution is moving full-speed ahead. As always, it’s your goal to find the best-fitting talent. Remote working opportunities split your opportunity to find new and quality talent wide open. Even better, recruiting and hiring remote workers may not be as complicated as you think. Over half of hiring respondents in the Cielo survey (59%) believe technology and remote working will lead to more streamlined and effective recruitment. Read the full article
