Candidate attraction | What are the best channels to attract top talent?

Attracting the right candidates can be tricky and costly, therefore access to the free 2018 Candidate Attraction Report should help you to benchmark against peers and challenge your thinking for candidate attraction strategies.

The 2018 UK Candidate Attraction Report looks at the top sourcing channels and for the third year running, Employee Referral Programmes are providing the best quality of candidates.

This year the survey did see a dip in the number of companies with an active ERP (61% down from 70% in 2017) – but they are still a reliable source of talent that increases the speed of the recruitment process. The quantity of candidates attracted through Employee Referral Programmes is still however lagging behind many other channels.

For quantity, Job Aggregators overtook the Generalist Job Boards as the supplier of the greatest volume of candidates - but there’s a distinct trade-off for quality with both these channels. CV Databases and Specialist Job Boards both moved into the ‘Talent Magnets’ zone this year as good sources of the right kinds of candidates for many in-house teams.