ALC - CareerArc blog

The typical HR department sits on a vast amount of data. From recruitment data and career progression data to social media data and sentiment analysis data, data is constantly being collected from a wide range of sources. Unfortunately, for many companies, the process just stops there. However, without processing and extracting information from the data to inform HR decisions, the only good the data is providing is simply taking up space.

The 2016 predictions, trend pieces, and recruiting stats are in. At the top of each year, thought leaders in the HR space look back and review main challenges and priorities that were top-of-mind, and then predict which of those will endure or change in the year ahead.
After surveying the many trend pieces, we noted the most common data points, observations, and predictions that human capital and hiring experts appear to agree on — the “safe bets” that the HR community are making, and which are most likely to impact hiring in 2016.