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The current state of the industry and predictions for the future of recruitment.

Learn how other recruiters are prioritizing diversity initiatives, and steps you can take for DEI.

How does your recruiting performance stack up against industry benchmarks? Our 2021 Recruiting Benchmarks Report draws from nearly 2 million email outreach sequences and nearly 12 million candidates who entered our customers’ hiring processes. Compare your recruiting numbers to industry averages to decide what you need to improve to remain competitive.

We dug into U.S. Census Bureau data to give recruiting teams the demographics of available tech talent in a handful of geos so they can set market-based diversity goals. We recommend you first try to match the market, then beat it; so we included a Diversity Goaling Playbook to show you how to use that demographic data to inform a broader diversity strategy.

In Gem’s recent survey, talent professionals across the board ranked “diversity hiring” as the most important trend in the recruiting industry for 2022. What’s more, “difficulty meeting diversity goals” was among the top-3 challenges TA professionals anticipate their organizations will experience in 2022. Here’s what else your peers had to say about diversity recruiting and hiring in 2022.

2022 is a candidate’s market. Talent is considering their options, and recruiting teams are struggling to compete against simultaneous offers. The two things organizations can do right now are to offer excellent candidate experiences, and to forge strong talent brands. Here's how your peers are thinking about those things in 2022.

Three broad trends emerged from this year’s survey responses: (1) Data becomes the competitive advantage; (2) A continued commitment to (and challenges of) diversity hiring; (3) A growing focus on employer branding and candidate experience. It’s time to find out what’s changed in today’s talent acquisition landscape, reassess your company’s strategy, and prepare for what may lie ahead.

We surveyed 500+ Talent Acquisition professionals to understand how they're thinking about diversity in 2021. Here are the highlights from that survey.

We surveyed 500 Talent Acquisition professionals to understand the key recruiting initiatives they have in 2021 as the pandemic continues, hiring picks up, and we all adjust to everything that 2020 brought. Here are highlights from that survey.

We surveyed 500 Talent Acquisition professionals to understand the key recruiting trends and challenges they are facing in 2021 as the pandemic continues, hiring picks up, and we all adjust to everything that 2020 brought. Here are highlights from that survey.

The following data on email open and reply rates was drawn from Gem’s database of nearly 2 million recruiting email outreach sequences: average open rates, open and reply rates by company size and role, and more.

The following data on conversion rates was drawn from Gem’s database of nearly 12 million candidates who entered our customers’ hiring funnels this year: aggregate passthrough rates, inbound v. outbound conversion rates, time-to-hire by company size, conversion rates by role, and more.