86% of recruiters expect remote hiring to increase in 2022: Bayt.com survey

86% of recruiters expect remote hiring to increase in 2022: Bayt.com survey

The ‘Recruitment Practices in the MENA Poll 2022’, administered by the Middle East’s #1 job site Bayt.com, revealed a variety of insights about the evolving hiring landscape and how recruitment practices have changed in the digital era. Today’s competitive recruitment landscape requires a more proactive approach to attract talent. In fact, top priorities for MENA recruiters in 2022 include adopting virtual recruiting technologies (40%), improving quality-of-hire (27%), reducing time-to-hire (16%) and increasing retention rate (8%). Ola Haddad, Director of Human Resources at Bayt.com said: “Our latest poll aimed to gather opinions from recruiters on the digital hiring trends and practices in the MENA region. This data is useful because it provides a glimpse into the current employment landscape and its opportunities, helping job seekers make the right career decisions.” Accelerated by a global health crisis, digital recruitment has become an imperative with recruiters across the MENA region finding ways to attract and hire the right talent remotely, and making sustainable investments in an end-to-end digital recruitment process. MENA recruiters revealed multiple factors that contribute towards acquiring a successful hire, including accessing the largest choice of talent (29%), ability to screen and filter efficiently (30%), ability to conduct streamlined onboarding (22%)