The FIRM have conducted their first member survey and I've been looking at the results. In May and June they invited members to take part in the research and got responses from a healthy 386 individuals.
I've pulled out a few interesting bits of data:
- The top 3 priorities for recruiters this year are sourcing great talent(91%), cost reduction (59%) and talent pooling (53%).
- 54% expect their level of recruitment to increase compared to last year.
- 50% have an average time to hire of 4–8 weeks, 32% take 8-12 weeks and only 9% under 4 weeks.
- 27% have an average cost per hire (attraction and selection costs only) of under £1,000*
- 39% of the FIRM members have 10 or more members of staff working within their recruitment team
- 78% do not currently use Pay Per Click advertising as part of their recruitment campaign with 25% never intending to use it.
- 42% say that they use Search Engine Optimisation as part of their recruitment campaign with only 11% saying they do not intend to use it.
- 73% use Social Media as part of their recruitment campaign with 24% intending to use it.
- 33% of respondents filled less than 10% of their vancaices using agencies in the past 12 months. 31% filled 11%-25% of vacancies using agencies.
There is an awful lot more inforamtion in the report about use of social media platforms and size and structure of resourcing departments.
If you want to know more or get a copy you should contact Emma Mirrington at the FIRM.
