Recruiters in India Use Employee Referrals

Contd…At least 65% of recruiters are using their employee referral programmes to get quality talent in India compared with only about 32% in China and Australia each, according to a recruitment trends survey conducted by LinkedIn, shared with ET. The India Recruiting Trends 2016 study was conducted among 298 Indian recruiters or talent acquisition decision makers who work in a corporate HR department and have some authority in their company's recruitment solutions budget. These individuals focus exclusively on recruiting, manage a recruiting team, or are HR generalists.Indian recruiters were also the most confident about measuring the quality of their hires (54%) as opposed to recruiters in markets like China (20%) and Australia (19%). Nearly 39% agreed that quality of hire was the most valua ble performance metric, 55% said employee referral programmes were the top source of quality hires, 37% either shared or contributed to employer branding with other functions, and 36% said employee retention was top priority over the next 12 months.

Contd…“Quality of hires emerging as a key performance metric, referrals being used as a top source of quality candidates, employer branding becoming a shared responsibility with other functions like marketing, and employee retention becoming a top priority are some of the major trends of the study,“ said Irfan Abdullah, director, LinkedIn Talent Solutions.The study stated that while hiring volume increase was pretty much the same this year at 76% and at 78% last year, 63% employers reported a hike in recruiting budgets this year in India, down from 71% last year.Abdullah expects employee referral programmes, employer branding and internal hiring to get stronger in 2016 and beyond.

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