Leadership Insight for Recruiting and Talent Acquisition

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    Strategic priorities for recruiting leaders in 2026

    As Chief HR Officers (CHROs) navigate a future where AI is a viable alternative to human talent and organizations walk a "growth-efficiency tightrope," recruiting leaders must align their efforts with key business imperatives.

    Download the Gartner Recruiting Leades Imperatives for 2026 get a strategic framework to address these challenges and get insights on how to:

    • Transform the recruiting operating model through AI innovation to revolutionize HR.
    • Activate recruiting insights to boost talent strategy agility and mobilize leaders for growth in an uncertain world.
    • Adapt assessment strategies to maintain quality talent through business transformation and emerging risks like candidate fraud.
    • Realign attraction and sourcing strategies with emerging talent needs to secure long-term talent pipelines for critical roles.

    How Gartner supports recruiting leaders

    Structure your function for agility

    Recruiting must adapt to changing budgets, needs and tech. We’ll help you optimize staffing, workload and role design to scale and let recruiters focus on strategic tasks.

    Partner with key business stakeholders

    Avoid too much short-term focus by aligning recruiting with evolving business needs. Learn how to better engage stakeholders to balance immediate demands with long-term strategic goals.

    Minimize risk of talent supply shortage

    Critical talent is scarce. Instead of overpaying, expand talent supply by cultivating new sources, ensuring a steady flow of qualified candidates for essential roles.

    Adapt recruiting models for digital transformation

    Revamp recruiting strategies to meet digital demands. We’ll work with you to redesign service delivery to swiftly fill critical roles and ensure your organization thrives in a digital transition.

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    Top recruiting questions Gartner can help answer

    Based on Gartner research, recruiting leaders should be aware of the below trends in order to address the evolving landscape:

    • AI triggers questions about the future of HR
    • AI is seen a viable alternative to human talent
    • Organizations walk a growth-efficency tightrope
    • The employement deal shifts to "give more, expect less" 

    To effectively prepare, recruiting leaders should:

    • Reimagine the recruiting model with AI-powered innovation to elevate HR’s strategic value.
    • Harness data-driven insights to enhance talent strategy agility and empower leadership in times of uncertainty.
    • Evolve assessment practices to safeguard talent quality amid transformation and emerging risks like candidate fraud.
    • Align attraction and sourcing strategies with shifting talent demands to build resilient pipelines for mission-critical roles.

    Key skills and capabilities include:

    • Business acumen: Understanding organizational goals to align recruitment strategies

    • Recruiting expertise: Mastery of technical recruiting processes and tools

    • Data judgment: Using analytics for informed decision making and optimized processes

    • Interpersonal skills: Building relationships and influencing stakeholders to drive effective talent acquisition strategies

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    Drive stronger performance on your mission-critical priorities.