Recruiting

Junior Pulido

MHR 452

Professor Kevin Farmer

March 15, 2014

Emerging Trends Research Paper

Why am I interested?

The industry that I chose to discuss in my research is recruiting, primarily recruiting in the retail industry. The reason I chose this industry is because I would like to learn more about the emerging trends within this industry and to see if I would like to pursuer this industry once I graduate. I currently work as an associate manager at Godiva Chocolatier, I have been working in retail for over 8 years now and after completing a recruiting course on campus I am intrigued to learn more. I do much of the interviews and hiring at my store, but want to learn more about the particular duties within recruiting.

Emerging Trend

An emerging trend within the recruiting industry is the success of social media and how it has changed the way for recruiters to be able to search and get talent profiles:

In the past, recruiters posted jobs on job boards and prayed that relevant candidates would apply. But the majority of the workforce was oblivious to those job opportunities, Recruiters are increasingly using professional networks, like LinkedIn, to find and hire the right person for a job – regardless of whether they're an active or passive candidate (Burnham, 2013, para. 4).

I feel that this has been such a great opportunity for recruiters and candidates alike to be able to reach out on various platforms that they were not used to before. As stated in the quote above, recruiters are still become more accustomed to this newfound change in the way of finding talent, but slowly realizing the great benefits it offers. This trend in the recruitment process is slowly making ground and will soon out perform regular job boards. Burnham (2013) mentioned, “Internet job boards still top the list (38%) as the go-to resource for finding talent, according to the report. But reliance on professional social networks (37%) grew in importance, increasing 11 percentage...