2024 Recruitment Trends

The Trends and Challenges Ahead

With 2024 on the horizon, we want to share the top upcoming recruitment trends and challenges facing organisations for the year to come.

These trends encapsulate critical focal points, including leveraging digital transformation and A.I in recruitment processes, adapting to flexible working and remote recruitment, prioritising DE&I initiatives, enhancing the Employee Value Proposition (EVP), and valuing soft skills.

This guide shares key challenges and trends for 2024, along with some insights from our Managing Director, Gerard Ward.

2024 Recruitment Trends

In this guide, you will learn:

  • How A.I and the Digital Transformation are changing recruitment
  • What kind of working models are expected to bring greatest success
  • The shifting focus to employee retention
  • How to secure soft skills against the inevitable shortage
2024 RECRUITMENT TRENDS


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2024 Recruitment Trends

The Trends and Challenges Ahead

With 2024 on the horizon, we want to share the top upcoming recruitment trends and challenges facing organisations for the year to come.

These trends encapsulate critical focal points, including leveraging digital transformation and A.I in recruitment processes, adapting to flexible working and remote recruitment, prioritising DE&I initiatives, enhancing the Employee Value Proposition (EVP), and valuing soft skills.

This guide shares key challenges and trends for 2024, along with some insights from our Managing Director, Gerard Ward.

2024 Recruitment Trends

In this guide, you will learn:

  • How A.I and the Digital Transformation are changing recruitment
  • What kind of working models are expected to bring greatest success
  • The shifting focus to employee retention
  • How to secure soft skills against the inevitable shortage
2024 RECRUITMENT TRENDS


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The 2024 Graduate Recruitment Guide

A Walk-through Today's Graduate Recruitment Funnel

Our 2024 Graduate Guide is your essential resource for navigating the dynamic world of hiring fresh graduates. In this comprehensive eBook, we explore strategies, insights, and best practices to help organisations identify, attract, and retain top young talent, ensuring a brighter future for your team and company.

The Australian recruitment market has changed forever and graduates are looking for more. The reliance on technology has never been more profound, graduate demands have never been higher and interest in graduate schemes has never been lower.

This 31-page guide shares some of the key challenges and trends in today’s graduate recruitment market and walks you through the graduate recruitment funnel of 2024.

The 2024 guide to Graduate Recruitment

In this guide, you will learn:

  • The key mistakes organisations should avoid in 2024
  • The trends and challenges facing organisations and how to overcome them
  • The best channels and strategies to attract candidates and how to screen them in the current competitive market
  • A complete walk through today’s graduate recruitment funnel from first engagement to onboarding
  • How to use your screening data for development
grad recruitment trends


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Future-proofing your Recruitment Process in Candidate-Driven Market

The trends and challenges facing Australian businesses in 2023.

The recruitment industry has faced a number of challenges in the past year and it looks like these challenges will keep coming. This guide looks at some of the strategies organisations are using to set themselves up for 2023 and to tackle a candidate-driven market both in recruitment and utilising their current talent.

Future-proofing your Recruitment Process in Candidate-Driven Market

Some of the insight topics in this eBook include:

  • The Australian Recruitment Market
  • Recession Proofing Your Recruitment Process
  • Short Term Hires
  • Boomerang Employees
  • Internal Mobility: Moving about and not out


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Hiring Safe Industrial Workers

Mitigate Risk and Screenout Unsafe Candidates

In this guide, we will discuss how using psychometric assessments can help prevent incidents in the workplace. By using these assessments, employers can gain valuable insights into their employees’ strengths and weaknesses, helping to identify potential safety risks in the workplace.

Safe Hiring Process

hiring safe recruitment process

Learn how to identify safe workers and screen out risky candidates early in your recruitment process.

Hire Safe Workers

The guide explores how you can use assessments to mitigate the risk of such incidents during the recruitment process or by assessing your existing team to identify development areas. The aim of this guide is to make you hyper-aware of the risk factors commonly associated with incidents, near misses, and death by sharing the behaviours and attitudes you need within your people to avoid critical incidents. 

By the end of this guide you will:

  • Be aware of the industries most affected by incidents.
  • The behaviours that can be identified in individuals and teams that may lead to an incident.
  • The legal factors associated with not having a safe workplace.
  • Be aware of the recent major incidents that have taken place in Australia.
  • Be given examples where individuals have come under harm as a result of poor workplace safety.


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Job Ad Template

Create Impactful and Insightful Job Ads

Our new job ad template is an excellent tool for recruiters who want to attract the right talent. Designed to be clear, concise, and inclusive, the template focuses on the essential skills and abilities needed for the job, while also highlighting what makes the organisation a great place to work. By prioritising diversity and being clear about what’s critical for success, the template can help attract candidates who can bring new perspectives to the table.

Job Ad Template

The job ad template is designed to help recruiters write clear, concise, and inclusive job ads that attract the right talent.

  • The template focuses on essential skills and abilities needed to do the job while communicating what makes the organisation a great place to work.
  • By being clear about what’s critical for success in that role, the template helps prioritise diversity and attract candidates who can bring something new to the table.
  • The template aims to create job ads that are inclusive and accessible to all, helping attract a diverse pool of qualified candidates.
  • Using the job template can streamline the recruitment process by making it easier to identify top candidates.
  • Promote diversity & Inclusion, while conveying you organisations EVP
  • The template is easy to use and can be customised to fit the organisation’s specific needs, whether hiring for a permanent, contract, casual, part-time, or full-time position.
  • Recruiters can download the template and start using it right away to improve their recruitment process.


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Your Onboarding Checklist Checklist

Level up Your Onboarding

Onboarding can be a complex process as there are a lot of factors to cover. Even more so if the role is
remote, but it is important to get it right. We have broken down this candidate onboarding checklist into sections that are easier to follow and that will ensure you are prepared.

Onboarding Checklist Template

Some of the insight topics in this candidate onboarding checklist include:

  • Pre-Boarding: Verify employee information, set up accounts and workstations, provide company information, and send a welcome email.
  • Policies and Procedures: Communicate policies and procedures, provide training, and ensure support is available for completing tasks.
  • Tools and Equipment: Ensure employees have access to necessary tools and equipment, provide accompanying documents or videos, and ensure they know how to access IT support.
  • Duties and Expectations: Communicate employee responsibilities, goals, reporting structure, and provide access to necessary documents and projects.
  • Social: Provide opportunities for social interaction and connection with the team and direct manager.

Also check out the video below where our very own Mina Imsirovic walks you through how to use the template.


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Screening in a Candidate-Driven Market

Attracting and Validating Top Talent

With the unemployment rate currently sitting at 3.5%, the ongoing skills shortage and a lack of international talent flowing into Australia, it’s safe to say that we are experiencing a Candidate-Driven market. Companies are doubling down on retention, so it’s even difficult to source passive candidates.

With all these challenges, it is time to ensure your screening process is as simple and efficient as possible to keep candidate engagement and experience high. This eBook walks through some of the quick ways you can assess candidates’ suitability for a role, without them dropping out of the funnel.

Hire for Potential and Screen Quickly

In this guide, you will learn:

  • The impact the current candidate-driver market is having on Australian businesses
  • How to screen in a candidate-driven market
  • Tactics that organisations are using to attract and retain talent
  • How Coles was able to reduce their time to hire by 90%
  • How Dulux utilised Testgrid to streamline their recruitment process

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eBook: Recruiting Gen Z

A Playbook for Hiring The Next Generation

The latest research shows that the newest cohort to join the working ranks is already making changes to the way we hire and recruit.

The eBook looks at the challenges facing recruiters and includes tactics that can be used to tackle these challenges and make the most of the changing recruitment landscape ahead.

We look at:

  • Gen Z priorities and motivations
  • Recruitment channels you should be rethinking
  • The Tech Stack you need
  • How to create growth opportunities

Start attracting the future workforce today

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Obstacles and Mistakes Impacting Your Candidate Experience

The mistakes to avoid and how a poor Candidate Experience (CX) can impact your bottom line.

Candidate Experience (CX) has never been more important than it is in today’s candidate-driven market.

Following lockdowns, the Great Resignation, and every other challenge that has been thrown at us in the past couple of years, 2022 is an anomaly in that the power has never so firmly sat with the candidate. With unemployment sitting at 4% and decreasing, the market is competitive. Very competitive.

In this recorded webinar, Testgrid teamed up with the experts at Livehire to bring you a presentation that breaks down improving candidate experience into bite-size chunks, while looking at the challenges and trends in the market today.

Understand the impact of CX mistakes

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