Recruiters the hardest jobs to fill?

According to the Wall Street Journal, recruiters are currently the hardest positions to fill. Their recent article reports that recruiter positions have more than doubled since the start of 2021. Open recruiter roles are a side effect of other trends, as job volumes increase and companies struggle to land talent.

“It’s no surprise that the demand for recruiters has increased,” said CEO of Recruiter.com, Evan Sohn. “We are currently transitioning into the job hopper economy and I believe it’s here to stay. This means employees will be leaving their companies quicker and more frequently than ever before – in fact, 60% of millennials are willing to leave their job within the first year.”

Our own Recruiter Index, in partnership with Revelio Labs, found that recruiting and staffing was the third most in-demand sector out of every area of business. This seems to support the extremely high demand cited by the Wall Street Journal.

At Recruiter.com, we recently launched a career community for recruiters to help recruiters find jobs and explore on-demand talent acquisition projects. This initiative helps connect the community with these open roles and helps us fulfill strong demand and backlog in contract recruiting projects with our clients.

“As of right now, there are 364,970 ‘Recruiter’ jobs advertised on LinkedIn worldwide. For comparison, there are 342,586 ‘Software Engineer’ roles open on LinkedIn worldwide.” – from an earlier post by Amy Schultz, Recruiting at Canva

Anecdotally, I’m connected to a lot of people in talent acquisition and lately, every other post in my feed seems to be announcing a new recruiting role and cajoling people to join their awesome company.

What do you think? Is there more to the story or are recruiters really the hardest job to recruit for right now? What is your team seeing out there? I’m going to follow up with more data on this job demand for recruiters in the next week or so to explore this further, and I would love to include your insights and comments.