Stuart Gentle Publisher at Onrec
09 Feb 2021|
Annual Trends Research Shows That UK Recruiters have Accelerated Digital Transformation in Light of COVID-19
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The last year saw a dramatic rise in the number of UK recruitment businesses employing a digital transformation strategy. According to Bullhorn s 2021 Global Recruitment Insights and Data (GRID), a survey of more than 2,000 recruitment professionals, more than two-fifths (43 percent) reported having a digital transformation process in place, compared to only a quarter (25 percent) last year. Recruiters whose firms aren’t undertaking a digital transformation process say that COVID-19 has made them more likely to adopt one (23 percent), while other firms say it has ramped up their existing efforts (33 percent).