SmartRecruiters Hiring Success Journal

Hiring Success

Common Perceptions in Talent Acquisition That Must Change | Part I

I’ve been known to upset the apple cart in meetings from time to time. In fact, one prospective customer of mine recently asked the room “who brought this guy?” The reason for that reaction is that a core component of my career in customer...

Bob Memmer

Sarah Wilson

Hiring Success Podcast Podcast

Episode 5 — Finding Top Talent in the Era of Digital Transformation

Hero photo for post announcing free SmartRecruiters demo for Google Hire Customers. Photo is of four young people of varying ethnic backgrounds sitting together and working together.

Product Tips

Google Hire Is Shutting Down: How SmartRecruiters Can Help

September 19, 2019

Hiring Success

Van Gogh, Aikido, and Reflections on Freedom: Day Two of Hiring Success EU

A brief recap of the closing day of SmartRecruiters’ 2019 European conference for talent acquisition professionals. The enthusiasm and momentum from day one at Hiring Success carried over to Wednesday morning virtually uninterrupted. Shortly after 8...

September 11, 2019

Hiring Success

Hiring Success EU ‘19: Avant-Garde Approaches to Talent Acquisition

Highlights from day one at SmartRecruiters’ annual EU conference on all things recruitment. In the heart of Amsterdam, along the Kloveniersburgwal canal, lies the Compagnietheater— a former Lutheran church that now serves as an event location. The...

Hiring Success

Experiencing Conference Fatigue? Here are 6 Reasons to Attend Hiring Success EU

Cramped hotel conference rooms and uncomfortable chairs are the banes of many recruiting conferences, but here’s how SmartRecruiters is flipping the script on the traditional industry events. What was the last conference that truly excited you? What...

Hiring Success

A Night at the Theater: Looking Behind the Curtain of The Hiring Success EU Afterparty

Hiring Success

Meet 8 Hiring Success EU Speakers Worth Flying to Amsterdam For

With experiences that span across cultural borders and industries, here are the inspirational talent acquisition leaders speaking at Hiring Success EU you cannot miss. Hiring Success is on the move again, this time heading to Amsterdam’s picturesque...

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...

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.

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.

Customer Stories

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

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.

Future of Work

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

Recruiting operations are mission-critical to enterprises searching for top talent, yet the majority of hiring teams continue working with legacy systems that fail to deliver ROI. Modern businesses are under continuous pressure to remain...

August 29, 2019

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...

Future of Work

Recruiting KPI Dashboards: Measuring Data that Truly Matters

Detailed reporting is being phased out by dashboards, bringing new focus on key recruiting metrics and how to leverage them in the C-suite. Modern organizations realize that data should lie at the heart of an organization’s decision making. As such...

Future of Work

Do Robot Interviewers Eliminate Bias?

James Deeney

Future of Work

Gen Z Takeover and 4 Other Trends Driving the Second Half of 2019

As offices prepare to welcome the first generation of true ‘digital natives’ there are more currents below the surface shaping the future of HR. With unemployment at a 49 year low in the US, salary budgets are projected to increase by an average of...

Ethan Thomas

Recruiting Hacks

Trust & Attention: The Keys to Building Communities, with Hung Lee of Recruiting Brainfood

In a time when recruiters desperately compete for talented candidates’ attention, building communities could be a way to stay ahead. The job advertising market has ballooned into a multi-billion dollar industry, which has, perhaps...

August 5, 2019

Recruiting Hacks

Five Onboarding Best Practices New Hires Will Thank You For

Getting your new hires up to speed takes time, but without a positive onboarding experience, many employees lose interest. Here are five ways to keep up the momentum—and engagement—in those first few days.

Recruiting Hacks

A 4 Step Guide to Junior Developer Recruitment

A guide to everything you need to know about finding, assessing, hiring, and retaining talented junior developers. A recent report from the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) suggests that the tech industry is on target to reach a...

Jeffrey Swartwout

Recruiting Hacks

It’s Time to Get Serious about Referral Recruiting – Here’s how!

Max Woolf

Recruiting Hacks

4 Tips for Conducting Remote Interviews

Gauging the talents of in-person candidates requires skill and experience, but qualifying that same talent remotely poses particular challenges of its own. Telecommuting has been on the rise since the early 2000s with SHRM reporting that 68 percent...

Holly Becklund

Product Tips

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

November 15, 2018

Future of Work Product Tips

Do You Know if Your Evaluation Methods Are Legal? RightHire Does!

Assessment is an important pre-hiring step, but if not done correctly you could be in a world of legal hurt.

Product Tips Recruiting Hacks

Landing Your First post-College Job Just Got Far Less Terrifying

Recruiting’s digital revolution has been a boon for job seekers around the world, and now students and recent graduates have a tool designed to connect them with the best employers possible.

Future of Work Product Tips

It’s All Good, Co.

Future of Work Product Tips

HR Tech Spotlight: Shared Talent Pools with MoBerries

You’ve already heard the buzz around Berlin’s venture capital swarm. Now meet one of the fastest movers in the hive. MoBerries is a Berlin-based HR AI technology company, founded in 2015. CEO Terence Hielscher developed the idea while working for...

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...

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...

Episode 4 – Hacking Recruitment: Unlocking Analytics’ Full Potential

In this episode, we sit down with Talisa Humphrey, Recruitment Senior Analyst at Optimizely, and winner of this year’s Hiring Success Hackathon. She takes us behind the scenes of testing our platform’s APIs and the creativity it took for...

From Prison to Position: Teaching Businesses How to Hire Returning Citizens

Last May, SmartRecruiters organized an event to help San Francisco’s tech sector make progressive strides towards offering fair, second chances to individuals with criminal histories. We often hear of companies expressing their interest in the...

Ed Kressy

Hiring Success

Stepping Forward: How Skechers Built a Business Case for Hiring Success

Four years ago, the footwear retailer partnered with SmartRecruiters to develop a custom implementation strategy that would empower them to tackle high-volume seasonal hiring and industry challenges. After finding success implementing...

Hiring Success

How to Hire Inspirational Educators, with Uncommon Schools

How one school is utilizing HR tech to hire incredible teachers that truly make a difference. America’s public schools face many challenges, from funding to keeping up with rapid innovation in other industries. Today, the number of teachers is...

Hiring Success Podcast Podcast

Episode 3 – Mastering Talent Attraction with VISA

In this episode, Celinda Appleby, Global Talent Attraction Director at VISA, goes in-depth on talent attraction and candidate engagement telling us about her role (the triumphs and challenges) with the enthusiasm of someone who’s ready to...

Hiring Success

On How to Pitch Your Company, and the ‘Passive Candidate’ Myth

Ronan Mooney built the recruitment team behind one of the world’s largest tech conferences, and he’s here to share how pitching a company is a lot like promoting events for over 100,000 annual attendees.