Everything has changed in the field of recruitment in France. The Covid has changed the priority cards of the candidates or even of the executives in office. In addition to remuneration, the flexibility of the organization, benefits, values or even respect for personal life are at the center of the concerns and, therefore, of the search criteria.
At the same time, the shortage of candidates in many sectors reverses the balance of power, allowing job seekers to play the selection and reflection card.
Have companies understood this paradigm shift? Not really. According to a study* by Indeed, hiring methods and, in particular, ad content have changed little in recent months, leading to “disillusionment” among candidates, the platform underlines.
Salary is often missing from advertisements
“Job seekers feel that information is too often missing from advertisements written by recruiters: remuneration, for two-thirds of candidates (66%), benefits offered by the company (56%), working hours (49%)”.
In addition, 78% of recruiters do not systematically mention the number of teleworking days and 22% have never even mentioned it in their job offers.
“However, this information is an integral part of the job position and candidates want it to appear in the offers they consult. Between the tacit and the artifice, the job offer can quickly bring its share of disappointments,” underlines the search platform of employment.
Worse yet, the tendency to embellish the proposed position is still common. “Only 39% of recruiters are completely transparent when describing the positions they are looking to hire for. 13% even think they are not being honest in describing the position.”
deaf dialogue
Result, job interviews that become a deaf dialogue and disappointments as a result. 94% of recruiters believe that the candidate should not hesitate to talk about pay, benefits (93%) or hours (91%).
Especially since 26% of recruiters consider the issue of salaries a taboo, just like the issue of teleworking (39%).
In the end, 59% of job applicants have already accepted a position without having managed to ask all the questions they considered important during one or more interviews.
But given this reversed balance of power, the candidate now has the last word.
“Candidates are more and more demanding, especially in terms of teleworking, distance from home to work by bicycle, the environment, that is, benevolent management. And some are capable of accepting a promise of employment and finally giving up because all the boxes are unchecked,” Yamina Moukah, headhunter and founder of the Buscando a Susan agency, explained to BFM Business a few months ago.
*study conducted by OpinionWay for Indeed in June 2023 among 637 “job seekers” employees (employed and actively or passively looking for a new job) from a representative sample of the population of employees of private companies with 20 or more employees in France ; and 547 “recruiting” employees (employees who supervise at least one person and participate in the recruitment process in their company) from a representative sample of the population of employees of private companies with 20 or more employees in France. The two samples were extracted using the quota method.
Source: BFM TV
