More than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic upended the nature of work as we knew it, it’s no surprise that there has also been a transformation in how people are recruited and hired for work.
As a cascade of layoffs in hard-hit sectors flooded the labor market with job candidates and as other fields ramped up recruiting to meet surging demand for services like e-commerce and information technology to support new or growing trends like remote working, buying, and learning, recruiting top talent became easier due to the deluge of highly qualified applicants and harder due to the inherent challenge of urgently sifting through hundreds or even thousands of applications.
