2025-2026招聘基准报告

HiringBenchmarkReport Key insights into how organizationsattract, hire, and retain talent About the Report Every year, we survey hiring professionals from across all industriesto learn more about how they attract, hire, and retain their teams. For our eighth annual report, we explore the state of hiring in 2025. This year marks the beginning of a new era of work, which we’re callingWork 4.0: AI is reshaping hiring from both sides, with organizations usingit to drive efficiency and candidates using it to tailor their applications atscale. For organizations, the result is a bit of a paradox: an abundance ofapplicants, but greater difficulty telling them apart and cutting throughthe noise to identify true candidate potential. At the same time, broader shifts continue to shape work as we know it.Companies are calling more employees back into the office; the most in-demand skills are increasingly becoming the most core human skills; andGen Z is entering the labor market searching for their place amongst it all. We’ll explore all that and more in this year’s report. The results in this report are based on a survey of 350+ hiringprofessionals across organizations large and small, and across a widebreadth of industries. Responses were collected in July 2025. The reportsurveyed a global audience, with the majority of respondents hailingfrom the United States, Australia, and Canada. Who We Are Criteria empowers companies of all sizes to hire and develop toptalent with science-backed assessments, interviews, and employeedevelopment tools. We are fascinated by all things hiring, and webuilt this report to explore how modern organizations hire today. Visit us atcriteriacorp.com Table of Contents The Hiring Landscape015 AI and Hiring0215 Gen Z0321 Remote Work25 Future Outlook30 Survey Respondents34 Key Insights From the Report Half of workplaces arenow mostly in-person 74% of hiring professionalssay it’s hard to find high-qualitycandidates with the right skillsAnd 67% say we’re facing a talent shortage. But when it comes to employee performance, hybridcame out on top as the best way to drive employeeperformance, followed closely by in-person. One-third of hiring professionalsare concerned about candidatesusing AI when applying AI use in hiring is up 33% And 61% of hiring professionals feeloptimistic about AI’s role in hiring. Remote companies were more likely tobe concerned about candidates using AI. Only 8% of hiring professionalsthink Gen Z is preparedfor the workplace And the biggest priorities for hiring professionalsnext year are reducing turnover, increasing hiringefficiency, and upskilling employees. And most hiring professionals thinkGen Z needs to be recruited differently. 01The HiringLandscape Half of hiring professionalssay hiring is harder this year. Key Takeaway Is the resume finally dead? AI has made it easierthan ever for applicants to optimize their resumesto perfectly match job descriptions, and morepower to them! But the result is that employersare now flooded with thousands of formulaicresumes that provide very little useful insights. Allthis combined has contributed to a new era ofAI-augmented work, which we’re calling Work 4.0.4961+55+52+52+41+38+36 Is hiring getting harder? According to about half of the hiring professionalssurveyed for this report, hiring is harder than it was last year, and withgood reason. The rise of AI has dramatically reshaped hiring as we knowit. Candidates can quickly and easily use AI to optimize their resumes andapply to more jobs faster than ever, causing employers to be inundatedwith applications that are hard to tell apart. Understandably, those in chargeof hiring are struggling to quickly pinpoint top talent in a sea of resumes.49+42+9 Interestingly, the industries that are really feeling the burn this year arethe tech industry, staffing and recruiting, healthcare, and non-profit. Read on to see how hiring professionals arecutting through the noise in 2025 as we enterthis new era. Percentage who say hiring ismore challenging this year: What’s making hiring so hard? Hiring feels like a slog for a lot of reasons, but at the heart of the issue, three-fourths of hiring professionals say that it’s hard to simply findhigh-quality candidates with the right skills. About a third are also concerned about candidates using AI; another third say they’ve had totake down roles due to changing priorities; and yet another third of hiring professionals say they’ve seen a major increase in the numberof job applicants per job.74+26+D33+67+D31+69+D Say they’ve had to takedown open roles dueto changing priorities Say they’re concernedabout candidates usingAI when applying Say it’s hard to findhigh-quality candidateswith the right skills Say they’ve seen a bigincrease in the numberof applicants per job Say they receive morejob applicants than theycan review/process Say they’ve had to puthiring on hold due touncertainty with theeconomy Say their