Leadership Insight for Recruiting and Talent Acquisition

Transform your recruiting strategy, structure and role design to maximize business value.

Set and execute a winning strategy for 2025.

Discover the 2025 Leadership Vision for recruiting leaders.

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Strategic priorities for recruiting leaders

As the talent acquisition landscape continues to evolve, recruiting leaders face immense pressure to deliver strategic value while effectively managing costs. The Gartner 2025 Leadership Vision for recruiting leaders offers a strategic framework to tackle these challenges. Download the eBook to discover how to:

  • Reshape the function to drive efficiency and value
  • Expand talent pipelines that support business growth
  • Transform recruiting delivery through tech innovation

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.

Trending insights for recruiting leaders

Top recruiting questions Gartner can help answer

Recruiting leaders face significant trends that demand strategic adaptation. 

  • AI deployment: Navigating the complexities of AI integration in recruitment processes

  • Labor market shifts: Addressing talent shortages and evolving skill requirements

  • CEO-driven growth: Aligning recruitment strategies with organizational growth priorities to ensure talent acquisition supports business objectives

To effectively prepare, recruiting leaders should:

  • Reshape functions: Enhance efficiency and value in recruiting processes.

  • Expand talent pipelines: Broaden candidate sources to support business growth.

  • Leverage technology: Utilize innovative tools to streamline operations and improve outcomes, ensuring alignment with evolving business needs and addressing talent shortages.

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

Transform Your Talent Acquisition Strategy

Economic instability challenges recruiting leaders in hiring quality talent. Estrella Parker, Satellite Healthcare’s Chief People Officer, shares how Gartner helped optimize their talent acquisition process for efficiency.

Drive stronger performance on your mission-critical priorities.