SmartRecruiters Hiring Success Journal

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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

January 17, 2020

Hiring Success

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

Mason Mitchel

Recruiting Hacks

How to Win in Talent Acquisition in 2020

With the new year comes new plans, opportunities, and challenges. However, for businesses there’s one challenge that remains unchanged—finding top talent. As the recruiting landscape becomes increasingly competitive, companies that wish to...

Noah Schreiber

Hiring Success

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

Noah Schreiber

Product Tips

SmartRecruiters’ 10 Favorite Product Releases of 2019

Mason Mitchel

December 27, 2019

Hiring Success

Hiring Success and Beyond: SmartRecruiters’ 2019 Highlights

2019 was a year of tremendous growth for SmartRecruiters—and our sights are set even higher for 2020. But before we charge into the new year, we’d like to reflect on our accomplishments and express our gratitude to those who supported us along the...

Mason Mitchel

December 16, 2019

Hiring Success

Why We Said Yes: SmartRecruiters 2019 CSR Year in Review

2019 marked the first year for International Reverse Recruiting Day. Once a quarter, SmartRecruiters offices around the world host events where recruiters and hiring managers connect with marginalized job seekers to provide career mentoring. ...

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

The 7 Steps of the Candidate Journey and How to Ace Them

Many talent acquisition leaders emphasize the importance of offering a compelling candidate experience. Having a solid understanding of the candidate journey is the foundation of doing so. It’s now more important than ever for companies to...

Elena Galli

Hiring Success

It’s Official: The Definitive Guide to Hiring Success Is Here

Jerome Ternynck

Hiring Success

Talent Acquisition vs. Recruiting in 2019

Traditional recruitment is in crisis, with many turning to talent acquisition instead. But if talent acquisition is to be more than another corporate buzzword, it’s essential to properly understand the difference between recruitment and talent...

Izaak Crook

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

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

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...

Mark Gregory

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...

Scott Wardell

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

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

December 20, 2019

Recruiting Hacks

4 Tips on How to Create Perfect Postings For Remote Jobs

When you’re looking to find the perfect person to fill a remote spot in your team, you have to start with the perfect remote job advertisement. Doing so will improve the quality of candidates at the top of your recruitment funnel. Perhaps it’s...

Magda Sowierszenko

Recruiting Hacks

How to Better Qualify Candidates with Conversational Recruiting

When narrowing down a pool of top job candidates, communication, engagement, and documentation are essential. Instrumental in that process is the combination of conversational recruiting and knowledge management Both recruiters and job-seekers alike...

Josh Brown

Recruiting Hacks

5 Content Marketing Tactics Recruiters Should Use

Ronita Mohan

Recruiting Hacks

Video Interviewing: Making a Genuine Connection from a Distance

Video interviewing has revolutionized traditional recruitment processes, helping hiring managers better understand job applicants all over the world, while saving time and money. Once upon a time recruiters relied on one-dimensional, text-based...

Jessica Newman

Product Tips

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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

November 8, 2019

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

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

SmartRecruiters

Future of Work Product Tips

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

Kaya Payseno

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.

Peter Braun

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 8 – Want to Boost Your Recruiting ROI by 6X? Start an Alumni Network

Have you ever left a job and later wished you could return? Or maybe you’ve experienced what it’s like to lose a great employee, knowing if they ever asked to come back you’d extend the opportunity without hesitation. If so, this episode of the...

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success Podcast Podcast

Episode 7 – Why Companies Should Offer Employee Training Programs

Tony Le is the Senior Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Getaround—an online, peer-to-peer car-sharing service that’s based in San Francisco and available across the United States and Europe. He has over fifteen years of experience with full...

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

Common Perceptions in Talent Acquisition That Must Change | Part III

This is the third and final installment of Common Perceptions in Talent Acquisition That Must Change. In case you’re just tuning in, Part I dispels the myth that talent acquisition (TA) is a cost center for businesses. Part II...

Bob Memmer

Sarah Wilson

Hiring Success Podcast Podcast

Episode 6 – Involving the C-Suite in the Hiring Process

Our sixth episode of the Hiring Success Podcast features an interview with Jason Ewell from Insight Partners— a global venture capital and private equity firm based in NYC that invests in growth-stage technology, software, and Internet businesses...

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

Common Perceptions in Talent Acquisition That Must Change | Part II

This is the second installment of Common Perceptions in Talent Acquisition That Must Change. Part I addresses the false notion that Talent Acquisition (TA) is an unnecessary source of overhead costs for businesses. The following is another commonly...

Bob Memmer

Sarah Wilson

Hiring Success

Corporate Social Responsibility: The Rise of Reverse Recruiting in 2019

Recruiting is usually defined as the act of attracting and selecting candidates for employment within an organization. Thanks to SmartRecruiters’ Reverse Recruiting initiative, that definition is taking on new dimensions. On the careers section of...

Mason Mitchel

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