The State of Pre-Employment Screening 2025: Trends Shaping the Future of Talent Assessment

Discover the top hiring trends shaping recruitment in 2025
Get insights from leading TA experts and thought leaders
Learn how AI and automation are transforming screening
Find out how to balance speed, quality, and fairness in hiring
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The State of Pre-Employment Screening 2025

Trends Shaping the Future of Talent Assessment

Discover What’s Next in Hiring

Top talent is harder to find and keep than ever. As the hiring landscape evolves, are you ready to keep up? Our latest report uncovers the trends, insights, and innovations that will define how you screen, assess, and hire in 2025.

We’ve gathered insights from leading TA experts, thought leaders, and cutting-edge data to give you the strategies you need to stay ahead.

What You’ll Learn

  • Emerging Soft Skills in Demand: Discover the most critical soft skills companies are screening for in a hybrid and remote-first world.
  • Predictive Hiring Trends: Learn how data-driven predictions can help you hire candidates who will stay and thrive long-term.
  • Gamified Assessments: Explore how gamification is transforming candidate engagement and revealing real-world skills.
  • Resilience and Adaptability Screening: Find out why these traits are the new must-haves and how to effectively measure them.
  • Personalized Screening with AI: See how AI is creating tailored assessments that adapt to each candidate’s strengths.
  • Ethical Considerations in Tech-Driven Hiring: Understand how to keep your hiring practices ethical and transparent in an AI-dominated landscape.
  • Future of Reference Checks: Discover how automation is making reference checks faster, more insightful, and fraud-resistant.
  • Reducing Candidate Drop-Off: Uncover strategies to keep candidates engaged and excited throughout the screening process.
  • Hiring for Innovation: Learn how to screen for creative thinkers and problem-solvers who will drive your company forward.
  • Market-Driven Hiring Strategies: Explore how to align your hiring focus with shifting market demands and business goals.
  • Who This Report is For

    • Talent Acquisition Leaders
    • Hiring Managers
    • HR Professionals
    • Recruitment Teams

    If you’re looking to level up your hiring game and stay ahead of the curve, this report is for you.

    Why Download This Report?

    • Stay Competitive: Discover the latest tools and trends in screening and assessments.
    • Insights You Can Use: Real-world advice from experts leading the hiring revolution.
    • Future-Ready Strategies: Prepare your team for the challenges of 2025 and beyond.
    • Optimize Your Process: Find the perfect balance of speed, quality, and fairness.

    Meet the Contributors

    Our report wouldn’t be possible without the brilliant insights from some of the sharpest minds in Talent Acquisition and HR. We spoke with industry leaders, innovators, and thought leaders who are actively shaping the future of hiring. These experts have shared their unique experiences, perspectives, and predictions to help you navigate the evolving world of pre-employment screening in 2025.

    Here are just a few of the incredible contributors who made this report come to life:

    • Brandon Jeffs – Director, People & Talent at TLDR
    • Christin Glaeser-Seidel – Head of Talent Acquisition at IDnow
    • Dilara Bukellal – Senior Talent Sourcer at Veeam Software
    • Emily Marmoy-Savage – Talent Acquisition Leader at Artsy
    • Eugenia Martyniv – Senior Configuration Engineer (Talent and HR Tech) at Wayfair
    • Hung Lee – Curator at Recruiting Brainfood
    • Joseph de Garr Wilkinson – Head of Talent at Agreena
    • Matthias Schmeisser – Global Senior Director, Talent at emnify
    • Rex Rusling – Co-founder and Director at the rec hub.
    • Robby Perdue – Group Product Manager at Greenhouse

    Don’t Get Left Behind!

    Be the first to know what’s shaping the future of talent acquisition. Download the report and gain the insights you need to hire smarter, faster, and better!

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    What modern teams using HiPeople are saying.

    “The turnaround time is great! We aren’t missing a candidate reference. Reference Checks can be a daunting task, but HiPeople makes it really easy.”

    Tiera Dobbins, Talent Acquisition Services and Operations Manager at NFL National Football League
    Tiera Dobbins
    Talent Acquisition Services & Operations Manager

    “HiPeople allows me to get mundane tasks like reference checks out of the way. Our time-to-fill went down 31% in the last year and we made 62% more hires.”

    Sarah Garner, Director of Recruitment and Outreach at Vivvi
    Sarah Garner
    Director of Recruitment and Outreach

    “We use HiPeople Assessments for volume hiring. With the introduction of HiPeople our work has reduced by about 50%”

    Prem Kumar, Talent Acquisition Manager - Recruitment and Employer Branding at DAZN
    Prem Kumar
    Talent Acquisition Manager - Recruitment & Employer Branding

    “Being able to use HiPeople’s AI-enable features allows for a better screening process to make sure that we are getting the right candidates.”

    Alex Anderson, Learning & Development Specialist at Colas Canada
    Alex Anderson
    Learning & Development Specialist

    “With HiPeople we are saving between 250-500 hours of screening time every year. We completely switched to a skill-based candidate assessment in pre-screening.”

    Maximilian Rauschen, Head of Talent Acquisition at Tourlane
    Maximilian Rauschen
    Head of Talent Acquisition

    “We use HiPeople to objectively assess our candidate’s skills and capabilities. The more data we have, the more we can influence our quality-of-hire.”

    Matthias Schmeisser, Global Senior Director, Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding at Emnify
    Matthias Schmeisser
    Global Senior Director, Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding

    “HiPeople has been really helpful for us in automating the reference check process, verifying who the references are, and doing it in a much more fast and efficient way.”

    Charlie Boyle, Senior Lead, Talent Acquisition Policy, Operations & Technology at Celonis
    Charlie Boyle
    Senior Lead, Talent Acquisition Policy, Operations & Technology

    “Our former reference process was really archaic, very sticky. HiPeople has really given us the ability to customize when and how we do reference checks. That is really amazing!”

    Janna Karwaski, Senior Director of Workforce Optimization at IntelyCare
    Janna Karwaski
    Senior Director of Workforce Optimization