The whitepaper explores a number of areas, including recruitment challenges and skills shortages, the plans for managing talent shortages as well as recruitment strategies adopted by businesses to manage these shortages.
Of the employers that have a plan in place, over 40% said they would consider appointing an interim or contract professional to manage skill shortages, while approximately a quarter said they were developing a succession plan or recruiting from talent pools they hadn't explored in the past.
This whitepaper is based on the survey responses of 226 hiring managers. Some of the key findings include:
Strategies adopted to manage candidate shortages
Of the employers that have a plan in place, over 40% said they would consider appointing an interim or contract professional to manage skill shortages, while approximately a quarter said they were developing a succession plan or recruiting from talent pools they hadn't explored in the past.
Read the latest Whitepaper in the South African Insight Series, 'Recruiting professionals in a candidate short market'.
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