Talent Acquisition Services Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 Market Insights™

December, 2025

Report Summary

This report highlights key demand-side trends in the talent acquisition business process transformation services space, helping enterprises fine-tune their talent acquisition operations. It covers significant trends and challenges in talent acquisition outsourcing, as identified through Avasant’s comprehensive assessment.

Why read this Market Insights?

With rising macroeconomic challenges, including wage inflation, talent shortages, and labor market competition, as well as increasingly demanding candidate expectations, talent executives are prioritizing the development of a robust talent pipeline and enhancing employer branding and candidate experience to foster long-term workforce sustainability. They are utilizing AI-enabled talent marketplaces, reskilling academies, online learning platforms, and AI-driven skills-based hiring tools to expand their talent pools and facilitate more effective candidate matching. They are also focusing on leveraging data-driven technologies, such as talent intelligence, predictive analytics, AI, ML, and candidate relationship management platforms, to optimize hiring strategies.

The Talent Acquisition Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 Market Insights™ helps organizations identify key market trends and expectations for any talent acquisition projects they undertake.

Methodology

The industry insights presented in this report are based on our ongoing interactions with enterprise CXOs and other key executives; targeted discussions with service providers, subject matter experts, and Avasant Fellows; analyst insights from primary and secondary research; and lessons learned from consulting engagements.

Table of contents

About the report (Page 3–4)

Executive summary (Pages 5–9)

    • Definition and scope of talent acquisition business process transformation
    • Key enterprise talent acquisition business process transformation trends shaping the market
    • Avasant recognizes 18 top-tier service providers offering talent acquisition business process transformation services.

State of the market (Pages 10–15)

    • Companies are improving their talent pipeline, employer brand, and candidate experience.
    • Candidate experience is becoming a critical competitive advantage in winning skilled talent.
    • Internal talent marketplaces, skill-based hiring, talent intelligence, and upskilling programs are increasing the skilled candidate pool.
    • Strengthening employer branding is emerging as a long-term talent attraction strategy.
    • Enterprises focus on leveraging data-driven technologies to optimize hiring strategies.

Key contacts (Page 16)


Read the Research Byte based on this report. Please refer to Avasant’s Talent Acquisition Business Process Transformation 2025–2026 RadarView™ for detailed insights on the service providers and supply-side trends.