The State of Hiring in 2025
In 2025, the best recruiters aren’t chasing trends—they’re optimizing fundamentals. Hiring success is built on speed, strategy, employer branding, and alignment with candidate expectations. Get the data and insights you need to evolve your hiring strategy and back it up with hard evidence.
What you'll learn:
Why hiring success in 2025 is about optimizing fundamentals, not chasing fads
How hybrid dominates—but candidates prefer remote (and what that means for you)
Why slow hiring is costing you top talent
What your career site’s bounce rate says about your employer brand
What’s causing candidates to abandon job applications—and how to bring them back
When to post jobs for peak visibility, based on real recruiter vs. applicant timing data
Region & industry benchmarks for time-to-hire, bounce rates, applicant conversion rates, and more
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How we built this report
We analyzed anonymized hiring data from 2024 from the Tellent Recruitee software, covering companies from DACH, Benelux, France, and the Rest of the World — offering both regional nuance and global benchmarks:
5,649
Companies
259,000
Job postings
Over 8 million
Job applications
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