Recruiting developments 2025: Review and outlook for companies
Recruiting developments 2025 in retrospect: Skills shortage, AI, Candidate Experience & Outlook 2026. Read the most important insights now.
Recruiting for banks: Why interim recruiters are more successful than traditional headhunters
Banking recruitment is different: 3 structural barriers make every recruitment a challenge. VR-Bank case study shows how interim recruiting successfully filled 11 positions without commission pressure – with 40-60% cost savings compared to traditional headhunters.
AI-First experience report: How we accelerated our recruiting process in 90 days
How we switched from remote-first to AI-first recruiting in 90 days, remapped processes in BPMN and reduced our time-to-hire by 30 percent. An honest experience report with quick wins, prompt library and KAi assistant – perfect for HR teams in SMEs.
Candidate journey: 6 steps to improve the experience of your applicants
With all the technical terms such as active sourcing, key performance indicators and data-driven recruiting, it is important to never lose sight of what recruitment is all about: people. The Candidate Journey helps to shift the focus back to the people behind the application process. Candidate Journey By creating an authentic candidate journey, companies are […]
Active sourcing: meaning, examples and the best methods for quick job filling
Let’s face it: the days of having the perfect candidates lined up for your advertised jobs are over, right? Instead, companies today need to proactively search for suitable talent – and this is called active sourcing. But what does active sourcing mean for your company in concrete terms, which strategies are particularly promising and is […]
Recruiting KPIs🎯 You should know these 7 key figures
Recruiting today is more data-driven than ever. Recruiting KPIs (key performance indicators in recruiting) help you to make the effectiveness and efficiency of your recruitment measurable and to make well-founded decisions. Contents Why are recruiting KPIs crucial? Recruiting KPIs give you valuable insights into the success of your recruiting measures. They answer key questions such […]
What Serendipity has to do with social media recruiting
Unexpectedly finding something you weren’t even looking for: that’s the principle of serendipity. Some of mankinds greatest discoveries are based on this principle. There are many examples where something completely different was found while searching for something specific, here are two of the most famous: Der Genuese Christopher Kolumbus macht sich im […]
Cover letter: no longer up to date, or is it?
Many companies now refrain from requiring a cover letter. Too many empty phrases, too time-consuming, not meaningful enough. But this approach is still not without controversy. Therefore, the question arises: cover letter, yes or no? Deutsche Bahn has shown the way. Since mid-2018, the company has refrained from requesting cover letters. The reason: Deutsche Bahn […]
So where did the job ad go? – How recruiting freezes can damage the relationship between candidates and companies
In the wake of the Corona crisis, many HR departments faced drastic budget cuts and changing targets. As a result, there were recruiting freezes, vacant positions were suddenly no longer vacant, and in some cases all activities related to recruiting were even frozen. Uncertainty about the further development of the new situation and a lack […]
Soft skills vs. hard skills: What really matters?
Whereas in the past, grades, school, university–or vocational qualifications and acquired qualifications the decisive factors and qualifications earned were the main deciding factors hen hiring a candidate, nowadays completely different skills are increasingly coming to the fore: so-called soft skills. This is also reflected in the job advertisements. Hardly any job ad comes today without […]
