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

Recruiting today’s best and brightest is becoming a more convoluted and difficult process than ever before. These strategies will help recruiters find the right candidates when and where they are in today’s competitive marketplace. The...

Matt Shealy

April 3, 2020

Hiring Success Recruiting Hacks

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

Andy Cammack

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

Hiring Success Podcast Podcast

Episode 11—Recruiting in a Recession

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success Recruiting Hacks

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

Noah Schreiber

March 13, 2020

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

March 6, 2020

Hiring Success Recruiting Hacks

How to Staff a Franchise Restaurant: An Ultimate Guide

When it comes to chain and franchise restaurants, one of the most important ingredients for business success is a dependable team. Running a franchise restaurant is more than creating great food, it’s creating an enjoyable environment that consumers...

Levi Olmstead

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

Hiring Success

Highlights From Day Two at Hiring Success ’20

Mason Mitchel

Noah Schreiber

Jackson Hille

Hiring Success

Hiring Success ’20: Top Takeaways From Day One

Hiring Success has arrived! Today, February 11th, TA leaders, HR practitioners, and recruiting professionals from around the globe congregated at the Marquis Marriott in the heart of San Francisco and began a two-day journey towards illuminating and...

Noah Schreiber

Jackson Hille

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

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

January 24, 2020

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...

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

Future of Work

Recruiting KPI Dashboards: Measuring Data that Truly Matters

Scott Wardell

Future of Work

Do Robot Interviewers Eliminate Bias?

In the fight against unconscious bias, Sweden experiments with AI – but will robotic interviewers really catch on? Meet your interviewer, Tengai: she’s friendly, observant, and did we mention she’s a robot? Tengai’s 16-inch glowing face sits on a...

James Deeney

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

February 28, 2020

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

Recruiting Hacks

Essential Guide to Employee Referral Programs in 2020

Employee referral programs are a critical component of every great talent acquisition strategy. Not only are they a reliable source of candidates for your pipeline, they’re easier to implement than you might think. It’s no secret that...

Mason Mitchel

Recruiting Hacks

How to Win in Talent Acquisition in 2020

Noah Schreiber

Recruiting Hacks

4 Ways to Improve Recruiting Strategies for Seasonal Workers

Recruiting is a challenge for any company, but seasonal recruiting is a whole other beast. The key to being successful at it is having a bulletproof strategy in place. Seasonal recruiting isn’t easy. Trying to anticipate how many workers...

Noah Schreiber

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

December 27, 2019

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

Product Tips

Google Hire Is Shutting Down: How SmartRecruiters Can Help

Google Hire has been scheduled for discontinuation. In September 2020, the applicant tracking system (ATS) will be removed from G-suite, affecting recruiters and business owners across North America and the U.K. This news comes as a disappointment...

Mason Mitchel

Future of Work Product Tips

4 Reasons HCM Modules Fall Short When It Comes to Recruiting

SmartRecruiters

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.

Kaya Payseno

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 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 Podcast Podcast

Episode 9 – How to Apply Market Segmentation in Talent Acquisition

Over the last several years, recruiting as a function has evolved from being a position tasked with filling open requisitions quickly and cheaply to being a strategic position tasked with helping businesses navigate the war for talent by hiring...

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

7 Hiring Success Speakers You Won’t Want to Miss

Hiring Success is almost here! February 11th-12th, TA leaders from around the globe will congregate at the Marquis Marriott in San Francisco to shape the future of talent acquisition. Where will you be? With sessions ranging from social justice to...

Noah Schreiber

Hiring Success

7 Speakers to Add to Your Shortlist at Hiring Success 2020

Hiring Success is just 25 days away! As always, we’ve assembled the finest lineup of talent acquisition leaders to present on topics that will expand your horizons—professionally and personally. Join us for what’s going to be the most memorable...

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

The Problem With Culture Fit and What Can Be Done About It

Company culture is crucial for organizational alignment. It is the glue that holds businesses together. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that candidates are vetted not only according to their skills, but also culture fit. In order to fairly and...

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

HS20 Sneak Peek: A Taste of This Year’s Speaker Lineup

Hiring Success is where the future of talent acquisition is decided. With an unparalleled lineup of speakers—from the fastest growing startups to Fortune 500 companies— the conference boasts something for everyone’s interests and...

Noah Schreiber

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