HR Insights: Adapting Recruitment Strategies—May 2025

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HR Insights: Adapting Recruitment Strategies—May 2025

People and Culture
Pages:25 pages25 min read

Author: Lindsay Coffin, Tabatha Thibault, Tyler De Melo

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This issue briefing provides an overview of job vacancies data from The Conference Board of Canada’s HR Metrics Benchmarking Q4 2024 survey. It explores organizational recruitment strategies as well as barriers and facilitators to filling vacancies with internal candidates.

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HR Insights: Adapting Recruitment Strategies to Meet Hiring Needs

This issue briefing provides an overview of job vacancies data from The Conference Board of Canada’s HR Metrics Benchmarking Q4 2024 survey. It explores organizational recruitment strategies as well as barriers and facilitators to filling vacancies with internal candidates.

What are the tools most commonly used by job seekers in their quest for a new position? Are organizations more inclined to recruit from within or to fill roles from external sources, and what challenges do they experience in both these scenarios? When job offers are declined, what are the most common reasons? What proportion of employers provide incentives to existing employees for referral hires?

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Key findings
Recruitment: A key driver of organizational success
External job sites: Critical for recruitment
Leveraging employee referrals to fill vacancies
In-demand positions typically filled externally
Many candidates lack technical skills
Dissatisfaction with salary leads to declined offers
Actionable insights
Appendix A: Methodology
Appendix B: Participating organizations, Respondent profile
Appendix C: Bibliography

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