Recruiting Trends 2027: 8 Shifts Talent Acquisition Teams Need to Plan For
The 8 recruiting trends for 2027, from AI interviews and candidate fraud to the decline of the resume, with data from Criteria, Greenhouse and Gartner.
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Leadership news on hiring integrity, including interview fraud, fake hires, the return of in-person interviews, and why first-year turnover starts at selection.
Do In-Person Interviews Stop Hiring Fraud? Only One Kind
In-person interviews stop deepfake and proxy candidates, but most AI hiring fraud comes from real people faking skills. Here’s when the extra round is worth it.
Can AI Fake a Pre-Employment Assessment? Why Tests Are Harder to Cheat Than Resumes
AI cheating in hiring is easy on resumes and much harder on timed, proctored assessments. Here’s why, and how employers should reorder their hiring process.
Is AI Replacing Entry-Level Jobs? 37% of Hiring Professionals Say It's Already Reducing Demand
Is AI replacing entry-level jobs? 37% of hiring professionals say AI is reducing their need for junior hires. Here's what Criteria's data and new research show.
Do Candidates Like AI Interviews? What the 2026 Data Shows
Do candidates like AI interviews? The 2026 data says they welcome well-run ones and walk away from bad ones. Here’s what makes the difference.
Structured vs. Unstructured Interviews: Why Structure Predicts Job Performance
Structured interviews predict job performance about twice as well as unstructured ones, and here's how to build one.
What Are Pre-Employment Assessments? Types, Accuracy and How to Use Them
What are pre-employment assessments? A guide to the main types of hiring tests, what research says about their accuracy, and how to use them fairly.
As AI Closes Knowledge Gaps, Experience Stops Being a Manager's Edge
As AI gives employees access to more knowledge and takes over more routine work, Nico Orie of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners argues managers need a different mix of people leadership, business judgment, and technical understanding.
Measuring Past The Mandate Turns Hiring and Promotion Guesswork Into Visible Patterns
As the EEO-1 mandate faces repeal, Chrysalis VP of Human Resources Carlyne Ervin makes the case that companies should keep measuring workforce data to spot important patterns and ask better questions.
The Recruiting KPI That Asks for 62,500 Qualified Applicants a Year
A Head of Talent Acquisition role demanded a KPI of 250 qualified applicants per opening, every week. A target like that builds a process to manage volume, at the exact moment AI has made volume the emptiest number in hiring.
41% of Large Employers Have Already Onboarded a Fake Hire
New research shows synthetic candidates clearing interviews, references, and background checks, with legal exposure growing alongside the security risk.
Google, McKinsey, and Cisco Bring Back In-Person Interviews as Hiring Fraud Surges
Employers are answering deepfake candidates with conference rooms and airfare, a costly fix that verifies identity but predicts nothing.
First-Year Exits Account for 40% of Turnover, Pointing to Failures in Hiring, Not Retention
When four in ten departures happen inside twelve months, the failure happened at the offer letter, not in the engagement survey.
Recruiters Stopped Trusting Resumes. The Fix Isn't Another Interview Round.
The résumé stopped being a signal you can trust, and the reflex recruiters keep reaching for, more rounds and sharper instincts, only makes it worse.