Some interesting findings from the Forum for In-House Recruitment Managers

Top line thought -

Those corporate recruiters who share my crusade foo "direct hiring strategy" - i.e. people like the FIHRM - are now on the social media agenda (98%!)

Many recruiters might not quite know what to do with it as yet - but it is heartening to see the King Canute era is at least over - and that engaging with talent pre/during/post recruitment is indeed the future...
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386 members took part providing, 344 completed surveys, and 42 part completed responses.

Key findings were:

The top 3 priorities for recruiters this year are

sourcing great talent (91%),
cost reduction (59%)
talent pooling (53%)

54% expect their level of recruitment to increase compared to last year

25% expect to recruit for over 1,000 vacancies in 2011

50% have an average time to hire of 4 - 8 weeks

27% have an average cost per hire of under £1,000 *Attraction and Selection costs only - RPO costs excluded.

60% have a recruitment budget for 2011 of £501,000 or more

78% do not currently use PPC (pay per click)

42% say that they already use SEO

98% of respondents use or intend to use Social Media

29% have had no change in their use of offline advertising
Some really interesting findings here, but obviously the stand our statistic is 98% of respondents use or intend to use Social Media