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How SmartRecruiters Could Save You a Million Dollars

Technology is a valuable asset for most companies. And like all assets, it should regularly be assessed and accounted for when taking inventory. In fact, doing so could result in substantial cost savings. Right now you’d be hard pressed to find any...

Mason Mitchel

May 29, 2020

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How to Build the Best Business Case for a New ATS

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success Podcast Podcast

Episode 13—What the Recruiting Community Is Doing to Overcome Adversity

Roy Baladi and Gerry Crispin talk about the ways in which TA leaders and tech companies are working together to help one another navigate the economic downturn.

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

Top Corporate Social Responsibility Trends in 2020

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

What Happens to Employee Recognition When Your Team Goes Remote?

Katerina Mery

May 15, 2020

Hiring Success

Internal Mobility: More Than an Excellent Sourcing Channel

Internal mobility is an integral component of a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy. Not only does tapping into this resource promote greater engagement in the workplace, it can also make your organization more resilient during downturns. What...

Sarah Wilson

May 6, 2020

Customer Stories Hiring Success

An Open Letter to Governments and Healthcare Orgs: We’re Here to Help

Our world is currently in a state of a disarray—to put it mildly. For many of us, all we can do is idly watch as events unfold, wondering to ourselves, “What can be done?” For government bodies across the world—like the state of Maryland—that...

Corey Epperly

Rebecca Carr

Hiring Success

A Concise History of Talent Acquisition

Talent acquisition—defined as the process of identifying and acquiring skilled workers to meet your organizational needs—has been around for longer than you might think. Early forms of the profession date as far back as 2,000 BCE. And while talent...

Noah Schreiber

Hiring Success Recruiting Hacks

Why Recruiters Must Be Strong Marketers to Reach Today’s Top Candidates

Matt Shealy

Hiring Success Recruiting Hacks

Talent Acquisition Teams: It’s Time to Switch Gears!

Unless you are an organization operating in the online delivery, grocery, transport or medical fields, it’s highly likely that most of your open positions have been put on hold. A few strategic hires will continue because they are just...

Andy Cammack

Customer Stories

Manufacturing TA Gold: Rethinking the Hiring Process with Caroline Boyce of American Iron and Metal

For an industry in transition, recruiting is the secret ingredient for agility. American Iron and Metal (AIM) is a fast-growing recycling company in Canada. With a footprint in six countries, they employ over 3,000 people and are looking to become...

Mark Gregory

June 20, 2019

Customer Stories

Once Incarcerated, This CEO Now Helps Americans with Criminal Records Find Work

How one Wall Street bigshot found himself in prison, and the company he launched after his release connects the formerly incarcerated with second-chance jobs.

Scott Wardell

Customer Stories Future of Work

Benefits Your Employees Actually Want: Why PayScale Has the Happiest Employees in Seattle

Sometimes it’s hard to discern which benefits are trendy and which will actually improve employee quality of life. We talk with PayScale to learn the difference.

Kaya Payseno

Customer Stories

The Team that Can Reduce Time-to-Hire by 50 Percent

Kaya Payseno

Customer Stories Hiring Success

60 Mil Seats to Fill: A Recruiting Story

What started as a misadventure to grandma’s house turned into the car-sharing app that’s taken over the EU. Frédéric Mazzella tells us how he did it.

Peter Braun

Future of Work

Future of Work Recruiting Hacks

Psychometric Testing For Hiring – FAQs and Answers

There are many methods and approaches companies can take when screening new hires. Major consultancy firms like Deloitte refine the process through psychometric testing, which provides valuable insight into a candidate’s personality. A company...

Miriam Groom

May 1, 2020

Future of Work Recruiting Hacks

4 Hiring Trends You Need to Know About in 2020

Staying on top of current hiring trends is one of the best ways to craft a successful hiring strategy. This is particularly relevant at the moment, as the US and global economies are trending towards an uncertain future. The hiring landscape is...

Augusta Henning

Future of Work Recruiting Hacks

The Recruiter’s Guide to Retaining Tech Talent

Retaining highly skilled tech workers is a huge challenge for recruiters in this tech-driven ultra-competitive era of recruiting. In order to do so, there are a few key insights recruiters should be aware of. Attracting and hiring STEM workers is...

Vinati Kamani

Future of Work

Enterprise Companies are Ready to Leave Their Legacy Applicant Tracking Systems Behind (Infographic)

Mark Gregory

Future of Work Hiring Success

Talent Is No longer a Commodity: The Future of Recruiting with Tim Pröhm of Kelly Services

Recruiting is constantly evolving and companies need to reevaluate the value they put on talent and technology. Founded in 1946 in Troy, Michigan, Kelly Services pioneered the concept of ‘temp workers’ when they began connecting growing companies...

Mark Gregory

Recruiting Hacks

7 Productivity Hacks to Become a Better Recruiter

If you’re struggling to get through your endless to-do lists and your days are spent wondering where time flew, here are a few productivity hacks to manage your time better and become a more efficient recruiter. You’re shortlisting candidates...

Simki Dutta

April 10, 2020

Hiring Success Recruiting Hacks

Turnover Rate: What Is It? and How to Get It Under Control

Safeguarding your company against high levels of employee churn is a twofold process. First of all, you need to know your organization’s turnover rate. Secondly, you need to know what steps can be taken to keep it at a minimum. Understanding...

Noah Schreiber

Recruiting Hacks

7 TA & HR Books That Should Be on Every Recruiters Bookshelf

An effective recruiter is an informed recruiter. Equip yourself with the knowledge to succeed by adding these reading recommendations to your list. No matter what your career is, one of the best things you can do to develop yourself professionally...

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success Recruiting Hacks

How to Staff a Franchise Restaurant: An Ultimate Guide

Levi Olmstead

Recruiting Hacks

12 Questions to Ask When Hiring Remote Team Members

In today’s global economy, more and more employers are turning to remote or distributed workforces as part of their hiring strategy. This requires a certain level of trust in remote employees to be organized and productive self-starters. To screen...

Matt Shealy

Product Tips

Hiring Success Product Tips

Everything You Need to Know About Onboarding in 2020

The onboarding process is what bridges the gap between the candidate and employee experience. This transitional phase is subtle and quick, but, when given due consideration and care, pays off in dividends in the long run. Onboarding is one of...

Mason Mitchel

Noah Schreiber

March 22, 2020

Product Tips

SmartRecruiters’ 10 Favorite Product Releases of 2019

An overview of the evolution of SmartRecruiters’ Talent Acquisition Suite over the course of the last 12 months. In 2019, SmartRecruiters’ product team focused on user love, making existing products more powerful and intuitive at the...

Mason Mitchel

Product Tips

6 Tips to Keep in Mind When Buying Your Next Applicant Tracking System

One of the most important parts of shopping for software is informing yourself as a consumer ahead of time. To that end, here’s valuable intel, backed by years of industry experience, on how to carefully research and select the next addition...

Rich Lewis-Jones

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Product Tips

Google Hire Is Shutting Down: How SmartRecruiters Can Help

Mason Mitchel

Future of Work Product Tips

4 Reasons HCM Modules Fall Short When It Comes to Recruiting

Learn why recruiters need a “best of breed” solution to win the war for talent from our expert webinar with Glassdoor and SmartRecruiters.

SmartRecruiters

Inside SmartRecruiters

Inside SmartRecruiters Product Tips

Winter 2018 Product Release: What Are Universal Profiles And Why Will You Love Them

Christmas may have been a month ago, but SmartRecruiters has one more little present for its users: a new product release. On January 25th, SmartRecruiters rolled out its Winter 2018 product update to all users of the platform. The release came...

SmartRecruiters

January 30, 2018

Inside SmartRecruiters Product Tips

Winter 18 Feature Release

This season’s release is a hat-trick of practical use add-ons that will make your candidate pipeline more efficient, give you greater power to interpret data and enable you to expand into local markets. Every season we release new features...

Kaya Payseno

Inside SmartRecruiters

Meet Alkestis Spinou: History Enthusiast, Board Game Buff and SmartRecruiters Sales Star

You could perhaps be forgiven for thinking ancient literature and technology are not natural bedfellows. Well, SmartRecruiters sales-whiz and ancient cultures expert, Alkestis ‘Al’ Spinou is a walking contradiction of that idea. Alkestis, who joined...

Mark Newton

Inside SmartRecruiters

Meet Valerie Bertrand: SmartRecruiters’ Rock-Loving Head of Legal

Mark Newton

Inside SmartRecruiters

When the Recruiter becomes the Recruited

What kind of sly tricks and crafty machinations are wielded to spot, engage and recruit the ultimate recruiter? According to one of our more eagerly anticipated Hire18 speakers, turns out it’s mostly a matter of having a solid product. As the days...

Peter Braun

Episode 12—Why Now Is the Time to Embrace the Struggle

Our guest for Episode 12 is Rebecca Carr, Senior Vice President of Growth & Hiring Success at SmartRecruiters. Rebecca and her team of Hiring Success consultants empower companies to optimize their hiring outcomes through careful assessment and...

Mason Mitchel

The Best Virtual Hiring Experiment: the 2020 NFL Draft

Many a year, I’ve spent too many hours that I’d care to share watching the NFL Draft. At times, it is both heartwarming and gut-wrenching; the stories of so many inspirational college athletes, usually narrated by ESPN’s Tom Rinaldi, are relayed...

Jackson Hille

Hiring Success Podcast Podcast

Episode 11—Recruiting in a Recession

Learn how to navigate hiring during economic uncertainty with expert insight from Denise Moulton, VP of HR & Talent Research at Bersin, Deloitte Consulting.

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

How to Write an Effective Welcome Email to New Employees

An authentic and engaging welcome email from HR is a critical component of any onboarding strategy. To help new hires feel like they’re a part of the team before day one, here are a few writing tips to keep in mind. The first day at a new job...

Lesley J. Vos

Hiring Success Podcast Podcast

Episode 10 — Discussions on Hiring as a Global Humanism

Gareth Flynn from TQ solutions joins us at the Hiring Success conference to discuss the global state of TA, HR tech, human-centric skills, and more.

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

Hiring Success 2020 Awards!

Historically we’ve tracked and measured hundreds of metrics in our customers’ hiring activities inside the SmartRecruiters platform. This year, we have distilled that number down to 15 metrics that have the highest correlation with the health and...

Noah Schreiber

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