Once thought of as a career for those who couldn’t make it into college, skilled construction workers are in higher demand than ever before. Both a lack of youth injection and a slowing down of immigrants into the workforce mean that wages are skyrocketing and construction companies need to get their hands on quality labor, fast. Businesses are struggling to grow without the labor they need.

Thanks to technology, companies have far less restricted boundaries for finding and attracting top talent. This has helped the global workforce, or international labor pool, grow. As more tech and tools emerge, so do the opportunities for organizations who hope to broaden their talent pool and pipelines. After all, the U.S. is currently experiencing a 30-year low in unemployment rates, which means finding skilled talent can be even more challenging than ever before.

It’s very clear to most recruiting professionals and those similar, that we are and have been in a candidate-driven market for a while now. Candidates today have many more options (sometimes better ones, too) when it comes to jobs than a few years ago. If recruitment professionals aren’t keeping pace with technology and candidate expectations, they are going to get left behind.

High-volume recruiting provides added challenges to the recruitment process. Recruiters facing this unique situation have to complete all of the typical tasks of TA professionals but in mass. This has lead to an increase in recruiting problems as the candidate’s expectations, such as communication, company culture and candidate experience, remain the same.

We are no strangers to the tides of change sweeping the recruiting-sphere. Change means a constant flow of new news, opinions and developments. Keeping up with latest and greatest can be a little difficult.

The world of recruitment is changing - and fast! Over just the past few years, systems have become automated and things like candidate matching algorithms have made the struggles of finding top talent a thing of the past. As 13% of companies are already integrating AI as a part of HR, it seems that our processes and use of technology continues to help us not only in finding talent (or even finding a nearby restaurant), but also drives us to focus on the bigger picture - making employees and whole departments more productive and profitable. And we aren’t the only ones seeing this trend.