The Future of Technical Recruitment: Trends and Predictions
Get expert insights on 2025 tech recruitment strategy, from budget allocation to evolving candidate expectations, to help your team stay ahead in the ever-changing hiring landscape.
Planning season is upon us. It’s time to critically assess what’s changed, what’s coming, and how you can best prepare your hiring team what’s ahead.
Using insights from 19,000 developers and recruiters, a group of industry leaders will unpack this year’s key trends and learnings, forecast what’s next, and offer actionable advice for building your 2025 tech recruitment strategy (from budget, to tactics, to goals).
Our Talent Acquisition specialists will help you answer questions like:
- Where should you be allocating budget in 2025?
- How can you improve the way you currently assess tech and soft skills?
- What have we learned about AI and tech hiring in 2024? What’s working (examples of tools and use cases) and what’s not?
- Have candidates’ expectations and needs evolved this year, and what do we predict for the 2025 talent market?
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Amy Wood
Anthropic
Head of Recruiting Ops
Amy Wood is a dynamic leader in recruiting operations and technology with over 15 years of experience in the tech industry. Currently heading up Recruiting Operations at Anthropic, Amy has held key leadership roles at HubSpot, Gem, and OneTrust, where she's honed her expertise in building high-performing teams and optimizing talent acquisition processes. As a consultant at Growth by Design Talent, she helps organizations refine their recruiting strategies, leveraging her deep knowledge of data analysis, headcount management, and recruiter enablement. Recognized with awards like the HubSpot Great Manager Award, Amy continues to shape the future of talent acquisition through her innovative approach to combining strategic thinking with practical, tech-driven solutions.
Adam Kovacs
Founder & CEO
The Talent Foundation
Adam empowers organizations to transform their talent strategies. As the founder and CEO of The Talent Foundation, he combines research with metrics and insights for continuous improvements that enhance talent operations. Adam specializes in educating recruiters, analyzing workforce trends, and guiding companies toward innovative, AI-enabled talent solutions. He has led talent programs and influenced thousands of hires at companies like AWS. Adam advises tech startups in the recruitment space and leads Sourcing7, a non-profit aiming to elevate the People industry. Connect with him on LinkedIn.
Gus Brewer
Recruiting
Alchemy
Gus Brewer is a seasoned recruiting leader with deep expertise in Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DI&B), building high-performing teams, and implementing efficient, data-driven hiring processes. With experience managing global teams of up to 50 members, he has successfully developed strategies to attract, assess, and hire talent across all levels, from entry-level positions to C-suite executives.
At HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS), Gus led the Technical Recruiting team during a period of rapid growth, as the company expanded from 900 to 6,000 employees globally, including a dramatic increase in Product and Engineering staff from 130 to 1,500. Currently, he is at Alchemy, where he contributes to simplifying Web3 development. For inquiries, reach out to Gus at gus@alchemy.com.