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Overseas Headhunter Company Summary: Ten New Trends and New Norms in the Talent Recruitment Industry
Overseas headhunting companies summarize the top ten new trends and new normal in the talent recruitment industry
Talent Recruitment Industry Summary of overseas headhunters
The major changes in the second half of mid to high end talent recruitment from 2025 to 2026
As 2025 draws to a close, there will be more changes in the recruitment of high-end talents in enterprises. Headhunting companies can only gain an advantage in the subsequent talent competition by better grasping the latest trends in enterprise recruitment. Based on a forward-looking understanding and analysis of the clients they serve and their own industry, overseas headhunting companies have summarized the top ten new trends and developments in the second half of the recruitment industry from 2025 to 2026.2025 is coming to an end, and the recruitment of middle and high-end talents in enterprises will also produce more new changes. Only when headhunting companies better grasp the latest trends of enterprise recruitment, can they win the first opportunity in the follow-up competition for talents in the follow-up assistance service enterprises. Based on the forward-looking understanding and analysis of the customers they serve and their own industries, overseas headhunters have summarized the top ten new trends in the second half of the recruitment industry from 2025 to 2026.
Recommended by overseas headhunting companies: Development trend of talent recruitment industry 1: Accelerated integration of AI technology and recruitment;
In 2024, AI will sweep across the globe, with unparalleled popularity. In 2025, the popularity of AI will be even more prominent, causing profound disruptive impacts on various industries, including the recruitment industry. At present, some in the industry are already integrating and innovating the two, exploring and practicing at a shallow level. How to deeply carry out market-oriented operations is still in its early stages, and the investment required is inevitably huge.
Recommended Overseas Headhunting Companies: Development Trends of Talent Recruitment Industry IIRecruitment of technical talents has become a mainstream demand;
In 2025, the development of enterprises will shift from incremental market sharing to stock market competition, and from the original seller's market to the current buyer's market. There is a world of difference between the two. The transformation of core competitiveness in the enterprise market has been reflected and manifested in the recruitment industry market, and the demand for technical talent recruitment has exploded in various industries. This is similar to the period of the seller's market, when companies recruited sales oriented talents with the highest proportion of demand. This characteristic has been observed in the system data analysis of headhunting companies since 2019, and has become more apparent in 2023 and 2024. It will be further highlighted in 2025. The recruitment data for the Jiangsu region shows that the demand for technical talents will reach 36.2% and 37.7% in 2022 and 2023, respectively.
Recommended Overseas Headhunting Companies: Development Trends in the Talent Recruitment Industry3： The increase in recruitment costs leads to a decrease in recruitment effectiveness;
In recent years, human resources practitioners have generally felt that the difficulty of recruiting mid to high end talents is increasing, and the investment in recruitment costs is also increasing. Unfortunately, the recruitment effect is opposite to the investment, becoming weaker and weaker. Why is that so? This is mainly because with the rapid development of the Internet network platform, the number of recruitment website platforms is growing in large quantities. While talents are rapidly differentiated, the selectivity of talents in choosing jobs is greatly improved, especially the rapid development of mobile network platforms. Unfortunately, in the foreseeable future, this trend will become more apparent, which means recruitment will become increasingly difficult.
Recommended Overseas Headhunting Companies: Development Trends of Talent Recruitment Industry IVThe channel for job hopping and salary increases is gradually tightening;
Job hopping has always been one of the fastest ways for professionals to increase their salaries. Previously, the normal salary range for regular job hopping was between 30-50%, and salary increases mainly depend on the scarcity of talent and its value to the company. The higher the two, the higher the salary increase, which is proportional. During the three-year special period and the current overall economic situation, the salary increase for job hopping is gradually shrinking, showing a tightening trend. At present, the salary increase for talent job hopping is basically maintained at 10-30%, gradually transitioning from the original "upward hunting" to "flat hunting", and even some downward industries are showing a trend of "downward hunting".The so-called up hunting is to increase the salary of talents by more than 30% on the basis of their existing salary in order to attract candidates for employment. The so-called flat hunting is to maintain or slightly increase the salary of talents by less than 10% on the basis of their existing salary in order to attract candidates for employment. The so-called down hunting is to lower the salary of talents on the basis of their existing salary in order to attract candidates for employment.
Recommended Overseas Headhunting Companies: Five Development Trends in the Talent Recruitment IndustryPart time mode is gradually becoming a fixed option;
From the perspective of talent and job selection in foreign countries, part-time employment has gradually become a substitute for full-time work in China. However, it has not become a mainstream choice as advocated by the founders of part-time platforms, nor will it replace the full-time workplace ecology. Nevertheless, part-time work will definitely become a fixed choice for professionals in the workplace.
Recommended Overseas Headhunting Companies: Development Trends in the Talent Recruitment Industry6： The revenue of various recruitment channels has generally declined;
From the analysis of the operational performance data released by major recruitment websites and well-known recruitment service providers for the year 2024, such as Liepin.com, 51job.com, Zhilian Recruitment, and SciClone International, they have all shown a downward or phased downward trend to some extent. The few recruitment platforms that have experienced growth, such as Boss Direct Recruitment, have shown an upward trend in their operational performance and profits for the year 2024, mainly due to Boss Direct Recruitment's unique business model that is different from other recruitment service providers.
Recommended Overseas Headhunting Companies: Development Trends of Talent Recruitment Industry 7The segmentation of recruitment industry is becoming increasingly fierce;
The increasingly fierce competition among enterprises will inevitably lead to further segmentation of various industries, in order to better possess the core competitive advantages of enterprises. Based on such industry dynamics, the segmentation of the recruitment industry will be more obvious. However, the accompanying problem is that recruitment services in segmented industries belong to niche categories. How can recruitment service providers ensure service quality while considering economic benefits. The main risk faced by industry-specific recruitment in large industries is the downward cycle of the industry, which is generally longer; The industry-specific recruitment of small industries faces not only the downward cycle of the industry, but also the dual shortage of customers and talents.
Recommended Overseas Headhunting Companies: Development Trends of Talent Recruitment Industry 8Enterprises are increasing their demand for overseas talent recruitment when going global;
2023 is considered the "first year for Chinese companies to go global", with an increasing demand for recruiting overseas talents, mainly divided into three categories: first, talents familiar with overseas markets; The second is talents who are willing to work in overseas markets; The third is practitioners engaged in overseas trade, such as foreign trade talents. According to recruitment data from overseas headhunting companies, the demand for sales talents is currently second only to technical talents, with half of them being for foreign trade talents. By 2025, the number and quality of overseas enterprises will further improve, and the demand for mid to high end talents will continue to increase.
Recommended Overseas Headhunting Companies: Development Trends in the Talent Recruitment Industry9： Background checks have gradually become a standard recruitment process.
The background check industry has always been somewhat marginalized in the human resources industry, and in recent years there has been a potential trend to become a niche market. This mainly depends on the concerns arising from the lack of understanding of talent's past experiences during the development process, and more importantly, concerns about future risks. The background investigation needs for ordinary talents and mid to high end talents are different. Ordinary talents focus on legal proceedings or criminal records, bad credit records, etc., while the background investigation for mid to high end talents tends to focus more on the authenticity and comprehensive quality of the workplace. This type of demand is becoming a standard configuration for enterprise recruitment needs.
Recommended Overseas Headhunting Companies: Development Trends in the Talent Recruitment Industry10： Enterprises and individuals are caught in a dilemma;
The core problem of the dilemma lies in the imbalance between demand and supply, where companies face difficulties in recruiting and individuals face difficulties in finding jobs. As mentioned earlier, the recruitment demand of enterprises is mainly focused on technical and sales oriented talents, while the talent market mainly supplies general talents.
Overseas headhunting companies have made relevant judgments based on the analysis of accumulated data and external recruitment platform data from the mid to high end talent recruitment process of relevant enterprises in Jiangsu and across the country in 2024 and 2025, hoping to benefit domestic enterprises and HR. Overseas headhunters hope to be beneficial to domestic enterprises and HR through the analysis of accumulated data and external relevant recruitment platform data in the recruitment process of middle and high-end talents in Jiangsu and relevant enterprises in 2024 and 2025.