Larry Fox

Recruiting in 2026: What’s Next? 2025 reshaped recruiting with AI, skills-based hiring, and rising candidate expectations. As we head into 2026, trends like quiet hiring, deeper skills assessments, and human-centric recruiting will define success. But challenges, like fake candidates and skyrocketing benefit costs, are on the horizon. Want to stay ahead? Check out our latest insights on how to hire smarter in 2026 #recruiting #recruitingtrends #recruitingin2026 #kmarecruiting #hrtrends #talentstrategy #kmahr #weknowtalent https://lnkd.in/g7mw2jJc

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AI now shapes both sides of the hiring process, and it’s changing how talent is evaluated. This session focuses on how TA teams can read AI-assisted applications clearly, redesign workflows to surface real capability, and set fair, defensible policies for candidate AI use. You’ll also learn how to apply AI ethically in recruiting so hiring decisions reflect human judgment and potential, not just tool fluency. Join Phil Strazzulla, Hailey George, MBA, and Cammas Freeman on January 13 at 1 PM ET for this webinar presented by SelectSoftware Reviews. Register today at 🔗 https://lnkd.in/enbEfEkr.

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Last month, Brandon Jeffs hit the floor at HR Tech in Las Vegas to ask recruiting leaders how their process has evolved. Hear what metrics TA teams value in 2025, how they balance speed vs quality, and how Gem has helped cut the requisition process in half.

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Brandon Jeffs took to HR Tech to ask industry leaders what’s really shaping their recruiting strategies these days. Learn how recruiters define the “why” behind recommending candidates, how proactive pipelines produce the right profiles faster, and how Gem’s AI sourcing helps every step of the way.

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Modern recruiting platforms aren't just HR purchases. They're business infrastructure decisions with measurable impact on financial performance, data security, and competitive advantage. Gem joins HR Brew to explain how their unified platform delivers 30%–50% cost savings through tech consolidation while improving compliance and productivity. HR leaders, it’s time to speak the language of ROI and operational efficiency. Tune in. https://lnkd.in/ekvmXmYw

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⚙️ AI can’t transform recruiting without ops leaders connecting the dots. Whether it’s integrating tools with your ATS, building workflows, or analyzing recruiting funnel data—your impact is growing fast. This post highlights where recruiting ops pros should focus in 2025: 📊 SQL, BI tools, AI governance, vendor strategy, and more. 📍 Dive into the details: https://bit.ly/3ZTYVys #RecruitingOps #HRTech #WorkflowAutomation #AIIntegration #DataDrivenHR #TalentTech #SenseAI

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The evolution of recruiting: AI, human touch, and everything in between 🌟 Join Kaytlin as she unpacks her recruiting journey, revealing how technology is transforming talent acquisition and what aspiring recruiters need to know. 💻

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Back to work after the holidays? This is the checklist HR leaders should start with. Before the inbox floods. Before hiring plans get locked. Before Q1 momentum quietly slips away. Budgets need alignment. Critical roles need clarity. AI needs guardrails. Managers need enablement. Attrition needs honest answers. This isn’t about being busy. It’s about making the right calls early. If you’re leading HR this year, start here, align fast, and let the rest follow. Save it. Share it with your team. Day one decisions shape the whole year.

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Onboarding is broken. Here’s the reality HR leaders face: 🔹 40+ tasks for every new hire 🔹 Only 12% of employees are satisfied with onboarding 🔹 Companies with smooth onboarding see 50%+ higher retention Now, for the first time in Paycor: background screening is built into onboarding. That means: ✅ No system hopping ✅ Fewer errors ✅ Day one = a running start Our decade-long partnership with Paycor made this possible. And HR leaders are already calling it the fastest hiring tool they’ve ever used. 👉 See how it works and why it’s changing onboarding: https://hubs.li/Q03DCT-P0

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How to unlock untapped talent? 🔓 Sound on for James Atkinson, VP of Thought Leadership at SHRM, explaining how expanding beyond traditional hiring criteria can get you the candidate you dreamed of. 

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Most staffing and recruiting firms are about to make 2026 comp decisions using metrics that AI can inflate overnight. That is the real risk. Not that AI changes recruiting, but that it changes the meaning of what your dashboards show. More outreach. More screens. More shortlists. All of that is possible with less human effort and without better placement quality. If recruiter and sales compensation still reward those early signals, you will pay for speed and call it performance. Then the harder outcomes show up later, when quality issues, fall-offs, and client frustration are already in motion. In this upcoming webinar, Leo Rocha (CHG Healthcare), Kate Twombly (Gifted Healthcare), and Jose Aleman (Everstage) will share how staffing leaders are adjusting recruiter and sales compensation so plans stay fair, profitable, and implementable when AI is in the loop. Save the date: 📅 March 10 | ⏰ 12 PM EST If 2026 comp planning is on your desk, this session will give you a practical way to decide which signals are still trustworthy before you lock payouts. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gJVjm_RY

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When organizations need to hire hundreds of employees quickly, traditional hiring approaches fall short. Scaling up your internal TA team might seem like the obvious move, but what happens when the project wraps up? You’re left with a larger team than you need, increased overhead, and the tough task of letting people go. It becomes a costly cycle that drives up onboarding costs and negatively impacts your employer brand. A more sustainable and cost-effective approach is to leverage Recruitment Process Outsourcing and AI hiring tools. An RPO partner gives you the flexibility to scale recruitment without the long-term commitment of full-time hires. You can quickly scale recruiting up or down based on your hiring needs. This allows organizations to maintain speed and quality in hiring while avoiding the costs of growing and shrinking an internal team. In parallel, AI hiring tools streamline pre-screening, shorten time-to-hire, automate scheduling, improve candidate quality, and broaden access to the global talent pool. These tools improve the quality of hire and reduce the time-to-fill, without overloading your internal team. With the right combination of technology and outsourcing, companies can meet high-volume hiring demands efficiently and sustainably.

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What do 3,400+ tech students want from today’s recruiting process? Get a firsthand look at what tech students want from today’s recruiting process. Rewriting the Code’s 2025 Recruiting Experience Report shares real-time insights and strategies to help you build a data driven, transparent, and effective hiring experience for early-career talent. FREE for early talent recruiters. https://buff.ly/H2utbTj

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