Gainfully Employed People Are Harder Than Ever to RecruitĪsk any recruiter or HR manager - it’s not always easy to get top talent to leave their post and come work for you. While some companies have built out robust online onboarding platforms (more on that in the next section), those that haven’t have found themselves scrambling to get the details in order - from employee training to contract execution, payroll, and more.Īccording to HBR, up to 20% of staff turnover happens within the first 45 days of employment, which exemplifies just how important it is to have a stellar onboarding experience for new hires.
Applicants are being screened, interviewed, and hired remotely.Īnd it isn’t just the interview process that’s going 100% remote - the actual hiring and onboarding process is being done online, also. It’s become extremely common over the last 20 years to begin preliminary interviews via phone call or videoconference, but in most cases, those have been followed with an in-person meeting.įor almost all people being hired during the COVID-19 pandemic, that has not been the case. While it sounds crass to complain about having too much work to do as others are desperately seeking employment, the reality is that HR managers are overwhelmed as waves of applications exceed the capacity of their systems. The United States unemployment rate reached 14.7% in April 2020 - the highest numbers (yet) recorded since 1939. So as businesses have watched their revenues drop to a fraction of what they were pre-pandemic, many are left with little choice but to downsize.
After we identify and detail some of the issues, we’ll devote the next section to providing solutions. First things first, let’s take a look at some of the effects the COVID-19 pandemic is actually having on HR and recruitment.
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