2025 Most Disruptive Industry Trends: Indian Women Leaders Speak

By: WE Staff

Kamakshi Pant, Chief Business Officer, Taggd

An engineer turned management professional, Kamakshi possesses over a decade of experience in various functions within the HR and recruitment verticals.

20205’s Most Disruptive Trend in Recruitment: AI Adoption in Hiring Processes

The year 2025 will be remembered as the year of profound change. We can see that the organisations are confidently integrating AI into their hiring processes. As per the Taggd India Decoding Jobs Report 2026, 44% of Indian organisations already run AI across their hiring systems, while another 37% are actively planning end-to-end integration. This marker highlights the intention of the HR landscape to co-author talent playbooks with AI.

Efforts are being made to compress hiring cycles without diluting judgment. Nearly 60% of recruiters are experimenting with AI to stabilise resume screening, and about 45% to orchestrate interviews. This has the potential of reducing early-stage volatility so human effort can be applied with greater precision later in the process. In 2026, the organisations that successfully find a balance between AI efficiency and human intuition will not just fill positions but also build long-lasting teams.

2026 Outlook: Demand for Skill-Based Hiring on the Rise

From where I see it, the most telling change in the recruitment continues to be behavioural, rather than technological. Recruiters now perceive talent differently.

Since 2019, searches using skill filters have grown by 25%, and recruiters are 50% more likely to search by skills than by years of experience. There is no doubt that the demand for skill-based hiring is rising. I believe there will be more and more use cases of AI in recruitment, and we will see a lot of organisations experience its impact.