Dive Brief:
- According to a quarterly survey, healthcare and retail have the highest demand for talent, with 17% and 14% of all job postings, respectively.
- In its U.S. Hiring Trends survey for the second quarter, iCIMS Inc., a SaaS talent acquisition solutions provider, found that the leisure industry has the highest talent surplus, with twice the number of applicants than open positions, and the banking and securities industry demonstrated the highest success rate for connecting passive candidates to jobs with a 69% conversion rate.
- Done with Hanover Research, a third-party data firm, iCIMS analyzed customer data of approximately 4,500 organizations for its report, which provides research on data-driven trends that can impact industries with the highest concentration of open positions to the supply and demand of applicants within the United States.
Dive Insight:
In other findings, the food and beverage industry received the most applications via mobile devices in the Northeast, Midwest and South. Talent demand varies by region, with healthcare accounting for 20% of all open jobs in the Northeast and business services with 22% of open positions in the West.
"Hiring demands and job seeker behavior are constantly in flux. Our research provides forward-looking insight on trends that can impact the way businesses make hiring decisions," says iCIMS' Chief Marketing Officer Susan Vitale. "For an organization to stay ahead of any talent gaps that may slow business growth, they need to automate their hiring processes to find, attract, screen, communicate with, and hire the right talent efficiently."
