2025 Recruiting Benchmarks Report & Dashboard

How do your recruiting resources, processes, and outcomes compare?

Whatever your goal—building a case, spotting opportunities, or benchmarking against peers—the 2025 NACE Recruiting Benchmarks Report & Dashboard provide the credible data needed to guide smarter early talent recruiting.

Use the report and dashboard to see:

  • how others are recruiting from colleges and universities,
  • what today’s entry-level screening and selection processes entail,
  • when and how offers and acceptances are made,
  • average recruiting budgets and staffing allocations, and more!

New to the 2025 report

See which activities and collaborations with career services and workforce intermediaries drive on-campus recruiting success.

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Fee: $290 (members); $450 (nonmembers); FREE (member participants); $290 (nonmember participants)

The report and dashboard are FREE to all member participants. If your organization participated in the survey, or you purchased the report, go to MyNACE > Research Reports > 2025 NACE Recruiting Benchmarks Report & Dashboard to access the report and interactive dashboard.

2025 Recruiting Benchmarks Report and Dashboard
2025 Recruiting Benchmarks Report and Dashboard

Report

Dive deep into the data

The 2025 NACE Recruiting Benchmarks Report examines crucial areas of university recruiting, including recruiting channels, screening methods, requirements, budget, and departmental structure.

This year’s report also contains new data on the impact of relationships that support early talent recruiting, including:

  • The role of career services.
  • The role of workforce intermediaries.

Additionally, the report confirms the value of the college degree and higher education, employers’ view of career readiness competency-based certificates, the use of AI in recruiting, and how cycle times have changed for employers and students. 

August 2025. 8 1/2” x 11”. 29 pages. PDF format.

2025 Recruiting Benchmarks Report and Dashboard

Dashboard

Compare apples to apples

Create custom views by filtering this interactive dashboard by region, company size, and industry:

  • Hiring: Recruiting Channels, Total Hires, Graduate Hires, On-Campus Recruiting Outcomes
  • Degree Requirements: Degree Requirements, Changes, and Outcomes
  • Screening and Interviewing: Interview Seasons, On-Campus Participation and Outcomes, Screening Methods, and AVI Technology
  • Offers and Acceptance: Offer Period, Offer and Acceptance Rates, Retention
  • Resources and Tools: Career Services for a Successful Recruiting Experience, Use of AI in Recruiting
  • Budget & Staffing: Recruiting Budget Changes and Average Positions
  • Survey Participants: Percent of Respondents by State and Region

August 2025. Microsoft Power BI. Web format.

How do you use a dashboard?

Check out this dashboard demo from the 2022 report.

2025 Recruiting Benchmarks Report and Dashboard

Benefits of survey participation

Take part in an essential contribution to the profession

Primary research surveys are administered annually to assist career services and university relations and recruiting professionals in making data-driven decisions; identifying new opportunities; and forecasting for the future.

NACE members who participated in the NACE Recruiting Benchmarks Survey receive free access to the product for every single NACE member at their organization at MyNACE > Research Reports > 2025 NACE Recruiting Benchmarks Report & Dashboard. Nonmembers who participated are eligible for a discounted rate.

To learn more about survey participation, contact NACE Research at [email protected].