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.

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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

Hiring benchmarks every Benelux recruiter should know:

Benelux leads in hiring efficiency—but what’s driving faster decisions?
Conversion rates are surprisingly low—what’s missing in the candidate experience?
Many hybrid job postings lack clarity—candidates in Benelux want clear in-office expectations or they’ll drop off late in the process.
Learn when to post jobs for maximum visibility across Dutch-speaking markets.

See the full story in the report - get regional benchmarks, tips, and insights to refine your hiring in 2025.

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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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About Tellent

Tellent is the People Decision Platform trusted by 7,000+ companies worldwide. Our suite of products helps HR and hiring teams make smarter, faster, and more strategic people decisions—without the manual busywork.

This report is powered by Tellent Recruitee, our ATS that enables structured, bias-free hiring—so you can attract, engage, and hire the right talent, faster.

A powerful, flexible ATS that unites your team, ensures structured, bias-free hiring, and gets you the right talent from day one.

A simple, scalable HRIS with built-in performance management to support, develop, and retain the people who make your company great.

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