Insight
Recruitment in 2025: What are the new trends?
Recruitment has never been in such a great change.
We read several posts on LinkedIn and in Berlingske (a Danish newspaper) about how we recruit in the same way as we have done for 50-60 years.
We don’t agree!
We are experiencing a major development in recruitment in recent years.
Technological advances and changes in the labor market have affected the recruitment process and made it more efficient and accessible for both employers and job seekers.
And increasing openness to new methods and approaches to recruitment that challenge traditional norms.
For example, with a focus on:
š diversity
š unconscious bias
š use of video meetings
š use of social platforms
š use of AI, data and other tools, etc.
50 years ago, recruitment was characterized by:
- Focus on traditional gender roles and expectations of working life
- Physical postings on bulletin boards in workplaces, in unions and public institutions
- Applicants often had limited access to information about companies and positions
- Personal recommendation
In 2025 we see the following trends:
Avatars or bots will begin to take over the initial screening and dialogue
Avatars will be able to ask and answer many relevant questions. They will save companies and headhunters a lot of time. They will give a well-documented and unbiased analysis of the candidate’s experience, strengths, weaknesses, motivation, salary, preferences, etc.
Perhaps the candidates will also start using avatars, which is not appropriate for the evaluation.
AI-tools will work closely with the recruitment partner
For example, relieve note-taking, so the recruitment consultant can have more focus on the candidate and subsequently have a much greater basis for assessing the candidate.
Specifically, these tools will be able to:
- transcribe and analyze data continuously during the interview
- analyze to find answers to indirect questions
- make it easy to search in detailed documentation
- recognize patterns in the candidate’s answers
- be objective and bias-free.
High information level.
With the technological opportunities available today, we expect that candidates will demand a higher level of information about the company, the department, the manager, the team, the work tasks during the application process.
Candidates are more likely to make decisions on an informed basis.
But also the information level in relation to the recruitment process, we expect that there will be digital improvements within, as this is a major problem among candidates today e.g. missing feedback with handheld processes.