What Is The Biggest Challenge In Temporary Recruitment This Year?

As we approach the final months of 2024, the recruitment landscape has proven to be as challenging as ever, particularly for those in temporary recruitment. To better understand the hurdles recruiters are facing, we recently conducted a poll on LinkedIn and email. We asked a network of over 8,000 temporary recruiters to share their biggest challenge this year, and the results are both telling and insightful.

Poll results at a glance, here’s how the challenges ranked:

• Candidate & Client Attraction: 53.8%
• Candidates Ghosting You: 15.4%
• Registering Candidates: 11.5%
• Processing/Chasing Timesheets: 11.5%
• Chasing Candidates for Availability: 7.7%

The Clear Winner: Candidate & client attraction is the biggest challenge

Leading by a significant margin, candidate & client attraction is the top challenge for over half of the respondents. In the competitive recruitment market, attracting top talent and securing client contracts has been a constant struggle. The ongoing talent shortages across various industries, coupled with increasing client expectations, have made it more difficult than ever to place the right candidates in the right roles. This challenge emphasises the need for recruiters to continually innovate their approach to both sourcing candidates and building client relationships.

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Other Challenges

While the struggle of attracting candidates and clients dominated the poll, several other challenges emerged as well.

Candidates Ghosting You: The phenomenon of candidates suddenly ceasing communication remains a persistent frustration, disrupting the flow of recruitment. Our 5 ultimate tools to stop candidate ghosting has helped many agencies combat this. You can find out more and download it for free here >

Registering Candidates: With compliance requirements and detailed background checks becoming more rigorous, the registration process has grown more complex, often leading to bottlenecks.

Processing/Chasing Timesheets: This administrative task, though routine, remains a significant time drain, pulling recruiters away from more strategic activities.

Chasing Candidates for Availability: As candidates juggle multiple opportunities, getting a definitive answer on their availability can be frustrating, leading to delays in filling positions.

Overcoming these challenges

The challenges highlighted by our poll reflect the complexities that recruiters continue to navigate as we near the end of 2024. From the ongoing battle to attract candidates and clients to the daily grind of managing registrations, timesheets, and communication, the recruitment process is filled with obstacles that demand creative and efficient solutions.

At Rocket Recruitment, we’re here to support recruiters in overcoming these challenges. Whether through innovative tools that streamline candidate sourcing, automated systems for timesheet management, or strategies to reduce candidate ghosting, we’re committed to helping you finish 2024 strong.

As we grow, we continue to share insights and strategies to help you tackle these recruitment challenges and succeed in the months ahead!