The future of recruiting and skills-based hiring

Despite the recent recruitment difficulties caused by the pandemic, we see many organisations potentially restricting an already limited talent pool even further.

Many organisations approach recruitment with a bias towards specific industry experience and ignore candidates that possess the key skills necessary to thrive in their organisation. AI’s involvement in recruitment may be worsening this problem, as programmes are told to automatically disregard applications that don’t include relevant experience on CVs – no matter how promising a candidate may otherwise be.

In this guide, our recruitment specialists explore the advantages of implementing a more ‘human’, skills-based approach to recruitment to help attract and recruit these people with ‘high demand’ skills that can help your organisation grow.