Report 2027
Recruitment
AI Trends 2027
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AI as an accelerator
in recruitment
AI has definitely taken its place within recruitment. Employers are using AI to speed up processes and relieve recruiters, while candidates are increasingly using AI when searching and applying for jobs. Although there are still many next steps to take, the impact is already visible, for example on time-to-fill.
In this AI Trends Report 2026, we share key insights from our annual research among 300+ recruitment professionals in the Netherlands and Belgium. You will read how AI is being deployed today, which choices organisations are making and where the focal points for the coming period lie.
Read more about the design and implementation of the survey here.
60 seconds samenvatting
”This research shows that AI is no longer a promise, but an increasingly concrete reality in recruitment.”
“The time-to-fill benefits of AI in recruitment are already obvious, but it also brings great benefits to the recruiter experience and the candidate experience.
I expect us to move towards a way of working where process operations are all done by AI – driven by recruiters. By doing so, you ensure that the recruiter’s broad range of tasks goes back to the core and what most recruiters are most energised by: the human aspect.”
Mees van Velzen
CEO at MrWork
De 3 topics voor Recruitement AI Trends 2027
AI
De rol van AI vandaag en morgen. Het dominante thema dat alle facetten van werving raakt en onderbouwt door middel van machine learning en neurale netwerken.
Markt
Huidige stand van zaken in de wereldwijde arbeidsmarkt. De realiteit van schaarste, de behoefte aan snelheid en het data-gedreven fundament van moderne recruitment.
Toekomst
Een blik op 2027. Onze hypothese en de verwachting van experts over de verschuiving van transactie-gericht naar relatie-gecentreerde wervingsprocessen.
Statistics from this survey
30%
Sees AI Applications
41 days
Average time-to-fill
81%
Investing in AI
Key insights at glance
AI in practice
90%
of employers are using AI in their recruitment processes. So far, that application is mainly in searching for candidates, making contact and writing job ads.
78%
of employers using AI in their recruitment process say it has reduced time-to-fill.
37%
of recruiters like to outsource candidate search to AI technology. Candidate qualification (19%) and interview scheduling (11%) are also popular tasks to hand over to AI tooling.
50%
of recruitment and staffing agencies are experimenting with AI matching. Yet technology still has a battle to win here. One-third of consultants say they rely more on humans than technology in making the right match.
40%
of employers receive AI-generated job applications. They estimate that 10% to 50% of total responses are submitted using AI tools.
Investments & priorities
25%
of recruitment professionals name optimising internal processes using technology as their highest priority.
81%
of employers will invest more in AI software than in the past year. Additional investments in other recruitment technology such as RMA are also being made.
Investments & priorities
26%
of recruitment professionals label finding the right balance between quality and quantity of candidates as their biggest challenge. There is also a lot of focus on the balance between people and tech. Especially now that AI and automations are playing a bigger role, recruitment professionals pay extra attention to the candidate experience.
89%
of candidates respond neutrally or positively to employers’ use of AI in the recruitment process.
