Only 30% of hiring managers, 22% of talent acquisition professionals, and 41% of candidates are satisfied with their recruitment processes, according to findings from Allegis Group’s Global Talent Advisory Survey.

Thirty-eight percent of employers cited attracting quality talent as their top recruitment challenge, followed by time to fill open positions at 31% and retaining quality talent at 18%.

On the talent side, 34% cited receiving regular communication from employers to which they have applied as their top recruitment challenge, followed by obtaining interviews from the jobs they apply to at 29% and receiving regular communication from employers they have interviewed with at 24%.

The survey probed perceptions from recruiters, hiring managers and candidates across the entire talent acquisition process, revealing some breakdowns that lead to stakeholder dissatisfaction:

• 33% of employers think their organizations’ recruitment processes do not enable them to be competitive in the battle for top talent. 
• 72% of job seekers say recruiters don’t always understand a position’s top three priority skills.
• 73% of employers report their recruitment processes fail to leverage technology appropriately.
• 70% of hiring managers, 78% of talent acquisition professionals and 59% of candidates are dissatisfied with the recruitment process. 

“Hiring managers and recruiters must make the bold move to regularly discuss recruitment processes across all stakeholder groups,” Allegis Group President Andy Hilger said. “These conversations are not always easy. But there is no better way to achieve continuous improvement than to establish a forum, cadence and data-driven approach to talent acquisition.”

Allegis Group’s Talent Advisory Survey was conducted online and in partnership with Inavero in the third and fourth quarters of 2016. It included nearly 12,000 employers and candidates across various industries and functions from North America and the EMEA and APAC regions.