Jim Stroud asks this question in his interview with Gerry Crispin in a Podcast on his blog. Crispin, of CareerXroads Consulting, first interestingly pointed out how much recruiting has changed in the past 10 - 15 years in which companies have become much more aggressive about doing their own sourcing, and hiring third party recruiters internally to do that for them.
And so looking at 2016, recruiters will be on their way out as we know them. Their
role will change from a more external and transactional nature to one that
is more internal, requiring a more creative skillset with much more discipline in helping hiring managers redesign jobs for the flexible worker. As the type of worker evolves away from the standard 5 days/40 hour week type work toward flexible work involved with independent contracting, job sharing, temp, temp-to-perm, contingency, semi-retirement/mentoring, etc., companies need to rethink their jobs and needs. They will require that flexibility to overcome both a labour shortage and a candidate that has more choices.
I agree that recruiters need to be working even closer with hiring managers. I feel for my clients who are in HR and who seem to get hamstrung by their hiring managers who insist on the old "I'll know it when I see it" method of profiling jobs and candidates. There's often distance and lack of communication between HR and hiring managers, and therefore passed on to external recruiters. A lot more effort, efficiency and creativity put in at the beginning of the hiring process will ensure great results and a recruiting vehicle that's agile and nimble, not reactive.
Anyway, go have a listen; it's well worth your time.
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