Digital recruitment has become a necessity, as recruiters throughout the MENA region strive to remotely attract and hire the ideal talent, while also making enduring investments in a comprehensive digital recruitment process.

Bayt.com has recently conducted the ‘Recruitment Practices in the MENA Poll’ to reveal insights about the evolving hiring landscape and how recruitment practices have changed in the digital era.

Key Findings:

• 93% of respondents plan to use an online recruitment solution in 2023.
• CV search (43%) and job postings (36%) were identified as the most supportive tools when hiring.
• MENA companies (90%) are adopting or planning to adopt a fully online recruitment process in 2023.
• Online recruitment tools offer various benefits, including cost and time effectiveness (49%), better-quality candidates (20%), ease of use (17%), and larger talent pools (14%).
• The top goal for recruiters in 2023 is adopting virtual recruiting technologies (41%), followed by improving the quality-of-hire (36%).

Data for the Recruitment Practices in the MENA Poll 2023 was collected online from April 2 to May 3, 2023. Results are based on a sample of 2,304 respondents from countries including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Sudan among others.