2026 Hiring Strategy Checklist

To help plan your hiring strategy for 2026, we’ve put together a complete hiring strategy checklist covering each step of the hiring process, from talent attraction to retention essentials.

To effectively plan your 2026 hiring strategy, it’s necessary to understand how both employers and candidates are behaving in terms of attraction and application.

To help HR do just that, we have extrapolated candidate insights from our very own applicant tracking system, Talos ATS, to determine exactly what you need in your hiring strategy to achieve hiring success in 2025.

Plan your 2026 hiring strategy today

According to Forbes, some 30% of new hires leave within 90 days. A truly eyewatering cost, in both time and money and even more reason for HR to line up a hiring strategy that will help you hire ‘right-first-time. 

To help solve this, we’ve compiled a helpful hiring strategy checklist to ensure your strategy is on the right track for recruitment success.

Hiring checklist for 2026: What’s included

• Key ATS insights 
• Attraction checklist 
• Acquisition checklist
• Recruitment compliance checklist
• Retention must-haves

Need even more hiring strategy support?

At Talos360, we’re experts in talent attraction, candidate management and employee engagement. Our intuitive hiring solutions save time and money for your HR team while promoting effective, data-driven hiring decisions. 

Not only do we possess market-leading, award-winning people tech that will help you recruit and retain the best talent, but we’re industry experts in all things recruitment, engagement and retention.

If you need any additional support planning your 2026 Hiring strategy, you can book a complimentary hiring strategy review with one of our hiring experts. In this session, we’ll outline where you can improve your recruitment, and the step by step process on how to do just that.