Companies had more job candidates than ever, tech skills were in demand, and organizations were learning to operate in a leaner, more agile environment in the wake of the 2007/8 recession. With the rise of LinkedIn and exploding social media usage, it became commonplace for employers and candidates to check social views and digital profiles. We saw a renewed interest in referrals and the importance of the treatment of candidates and employees on corporate success- especially their measurable impact on company performance.
In 2016, millennials became the largest generation in the workforce.1
New technology trends and ideas emerged in the latter part of the decade and are quickly put into regular practice e.g. social media in job postings, job aggregators, sourcing tools, mobile recruiting and mobile-responsive career sites, programmatic job advertising, machine learning, job automation etc. We saw an increased concern for diversity in the workplace, pay equity and a new focus on gender neutral job description language.
In spite of, or perhaps because of the new technologies at our fingertips, two overarching problems emerged:
What were the best ways that we could use these new technologies without completely dehumanizing the recruiting process, since candidates did not respond well to overly automated processes?
How could non-high tech companies that were not up to speed with rapid advancements in recruiting technologies compete with those that could?
2010’s Milestones:
- 2010 – The Talent Board launches the CandEs.2
- 2010 – Zip Recruiter launches its aggregation model.3
- 2011 – “LinkedIn Apply” debuts.4
- 2011 – Google Plus launches5
- 2011 – Rise of online portfolios.6
- 2013 – Social Talent founded.7
- 2014 – SparcStart launched.8
- 2016 – Association of Talent Acquisition Professionals (ATAP) launched.9
- 2016 – Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning explodes in recruiting.10
- 2016 – Hung Lee launches Recruiting Brainfood.11
- 2017 – Harry W. Colmery Veterans Education Assistance Act passed.12
- 2017 – Google launches Google for Jobs.13
- 2018 – GDPR takes effect.14
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