The Spanish labor market is going through a complex stage, in which it is increasingly difficult to advance professionally and find the right talent. According to LinkedIn, a 73% of recruiters acknowledge that locating qualified talent has cost them more in the last yearand 75% admit to feeling unprepared to manage the pressure of their work, because they have to face increasingly high expectations.
Selection teams, furthermore, with fewer open positions, face greater demands. 41% need to fill vacancies faster, and 38% also have difficulty detecting talent with potential that is not evident at first glance.
This Price is not exclusive to recruiters. Although 49% of workers say they will actively look for a new position this year, 57% perceive that the process has become too impersonal, and 61% comment that the process is also more complex to approach due to the lack of guidance and reliable advice.
To this we must add other structural problems that make it more difficult to access employment. 41% of professionals looking for work complain about the proliferation of temporary or low-paid offers, 40% that there are too many candidates competing for the same positions, 31% of companies delaying or freezing hiring due to economic uncertainty and 23% of the lack of transparency in selection processes. For all this, 65% of professionals say that they have considered moving to another country in search of better job opportunities.
In this context, AI is consolidating itself as a lever to improve productivity, support decision making and redefine the way jobs are sought and hired. So much so that 93% of recruiters plan to increase their use of AI tools this year to achieve hiring goals, evaluate candidates, and find talent.
Of those who already use them, 49% acknowledge that AI has allowed them to discover candidates with skills that they would not have identified before, and 58% plan to extend their use to pre-selection interviews. 64% believe that with them they will be able to have more qualitative conversations with already filtered profiles, and 59% believe that they will get more complete information even if the volume of candidates is very high.
Rosario Sierra, Business Director of LinkedIn Spain and Portugalhighlighted that they are seeing «a labor market in which both professionals and selection teams feel more pressure and less room for error. People want to advance their careers, but often do not know how to do so, while companies need to identify talent quickly and effectively. This reality is reflected in current selection processes, where more than half of recruiters point out the lack of qualified candidates as the main challenge of the last year, to which is added the shortage of in-demand skills, the increase in applications generated with AI or the difficulty in distinguishing real profiles from those that are not. Without a doubt, all of this reinforces the need to improve the way in which talent is oriented, evaluated and connected to opportunities, so that both professionals and companies can make decisions with more judgment and confidence.
