Hiring Amid the Apply-Anyways Candidate Culture
At BambooHR Summit 2022, Spark Hire surveyed 1,000+ global HR and recruiting professionals to identify and better understand the primary challenges associated with hiring.
Explore our report, which includes those findings, and best practices for how to identify top talent in an overload of candidates and improve your speed to hire.
Navigating the Apply-Anyways Candidate Culture
The ‘Apply Anyways’ Candidate Culture is a phenomenon that impacts the speed and quality of hiring worldwide. In a competitive and candidate-driven market, candidates are applying for open jobs, even when they don’t meet all the qualifications. This overload of applicants is making it nearly impossible to identify top talent for open job roles – meaning you could miss out on making the highest quality hires.
Hiring Amid the Apply-Anyways Candidate Culture reveals the top challenges talent acquisition professionals, hiring teams, and recruiters face when inundated with applications, and provides actionable solutions to speed up your hiring time without sacrificing your hiring quality.
In this report, we’ll walk you through
- Understanding the unqualified applicant overload crisis
- Recognizing the impact and importance of the “apply-anyways” or “Easy Apply” candidate culture
- Navigating the hiring process in this climate to increase the speed and quality of your hires
Key Takeaways From Our Survey
What are 84% of recruiters and HR pros trying to improve?
84% of these professionals are actively trying to improve their time to hire.
What is a major challenge in the hiring process?
One of the most prominent challenges within the hiring process is getting timely feedback from hiring managers.
What is the #1 most cited challenge to the hiring process?
The #1 most cited challenge in the hiring process is candidate drop-out.
What is something a whopping 73% of respondents agree on?
They agree that not having enough qualified candidates has had a significant impact on their hiring speed.
What do more than 1/3 of respondents lack?
More than 1/3 of respondents agree they lack the resources to build a healthy candidate pipeline.
84% of respondents are actively looking to improve their Time to Hire
Getting timely feedback from hiring managers is a major challenge to the hiring process
Candidate drop-out was the #1 most cited challenge to the hiring process
Not having enough qualified candidates has a significant impact on speed to hire
More than ⅓ of respondents lack the resources to build a healthy candidate pipeline
