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The State of Online Recruiting 2023
iHire’s 5th Annual State of Online Recruiting Report provides an inside look into today’s talent acquisition trends and the role job boards and recruitment platforms play in connecting employers with qualified candidates.
This year, we surveyed 2,194 job seekers and 489 employers from 57 industries across the United States to bring recruiters, hiring managers, and HR professionals actionable, data-driven insights on how to hire faster, smarter, and more efficiently.
iHire’s 2023 State of Online Recruiting Report answers the following questions and more:
- What challenges are employers and candidates experiencing when connecting with one another?
- Why are job seekers searching for work and which resources are they using to find it?
- Which job board features and functions do users believe are most valuable?
- How are layoffs and resignations impacting hiring?
- Which recruiting trends for 2023 are poised to make HR news headlines?
Recruiting Challenges
Candidate quality has been a perennial challenge for employers surveyed for iHire’s State of Online Recruiting Report, and 2023 was no exception – 62.6% of companies said they receive too many unqualified applicants when recruiting through online job boards. Ghosting (54.0%) and a low volume of applicants (43.1%) rounded out the top three employer challenges in both 2022 and 2023.
Job Search Frustrations
In 2023, ghosting, or applying for jobs and not hearing back from employers, overtook 2022’s top job search challenge (finding jobs in one’s desired location) as candidates’ biggest frustration. Respondents also struggled to find jobs that meet their salary requirements (37.9%), while over a quarter of job seekers worried about being either unqualified (27.3%) or overqualified (24.5%) for positions.
Hiring Trends
Which recruiting trends for 2023 are on the horizon? For the second year in a row, the top talent acquisition trend anticipated to impact hiring was a lack of qualified candidates (70.6%). Retention struggles have eased slightly (16.0% fewer employers expected difficulty retaining employees in 2023 than in 2022), while economic uncertainty rose 3.8% year-over-year.
Survey Methodology
A total of 2,683 U.S. job seekers (2,194) and employers (489) responded to iHire’s State of Online Recruiting survey in June 2023. Respondents came from iHire’s job and job seeker databases comprising employers and candidates across 57 talent communities. All decimal points are rounded to the nearest tenth. For many questions, multiple answers could be selected, so percentages add up to a sum greater than 100%. In some instances, survey questions were skipped by an individual respondent.
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