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5 Reasons Why Candidates Prefer Messaging Over Calling

Great communication between candidates and recruiters has become not only an essential part of a great candidate experience, but a 21st century necessity. With the evolution of mobile technology and messaging apps, today’s workforce has grown to...

Catherine Munnelly

February 1, 2021

Diversity Hiring

Introduction to The Diversity Hiring Toolkit

Rocki Howard

Making Job Ads Your Top Source of Hire

Table of Contents How Some Recruiters Have Cracked the Job Ad CodeAha Moment: What If SmartRecruiters Could Democratize Job Ad Optimization for All Enterprises?Simplifying Vendor ManagementStay Agile, But Still be Able to Take a Lunch BreakCollect...

Jim Milton

Virtual Career Fair: Top 5 Questions Answered

Jackson Hille

5 Reasons Why Automation is Driving Efficiency in Recruiting

Catherine Munnelly

December 3, 2020

Hiring Success

Hiring Success Recruiting Hacks

How Upskilling, Reskilling & Continuous Learning Can Help Retain Talent

Education is a lifelong activity. Employers that recognize and embrace this truth by investing in the ongoing development of their employees stand to benefit in numerous ways. Retaining talent is a surprising struggle today. In fact, 82% of...

Ray Slater Berry

August 26, 2020

Hiring Success

The Building Blocks of a Successful Employee Retention Strategy

Finding the workers your company needs to excel is only half the battle. Keeping them onboard is the other. Doing so prevents your hiring team from having to carry out the same task over and over, and lowers overall costs in the end. Employee...

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success Recruiting Hacks

The Essential Guide to Employer Branding in 2020

What Is Employer Branding? Employer branding is the act of cultivating an employer brand, which is essentially an identity or persona cultivated by an organization that is presented to the public. Typically, an employer brand embodies an...

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

How to Avoid Employee Burnout and Increase Productivity: Eight Top Tips

George Griffiths

Hiring Success Recruiting Hacks

A Guide to Virtual Recruiting Success

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous companies handled some elements of their recruitment process virtually. The lockdown of many states forced just about every business to shift its recruiting online. Even as the economy begins to reopen, many...

Mason Mitchel

Customer Stories

Now’s the Time to Connect People to Jobs at Scale

There have been a lot of clichéd phrases used to describe the “unprecedented times” we live in which we ponder what the “new normal” is and what will remain of the “past we’re leaving behind.” While these expressions might seem a bit hollow, they do...

Jessica Foo

September 15, 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

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

Customer Stories

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

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

Future of Work

A Guide to Remote Collaboration for Designers

By now, we’ve all started to adapt to the “new normal” of remote work. As designers, some of these habits have come easier than others but we’ve found that introducing constraints and utilizing design tools have helped tremendously —go figure...

Jhana Cayton

Shefali Netke

Sarah Essghaier

July 17, 2020

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

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

Vinati Kamani

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

Recruiting Hacks

Why Your Talent Strategy Should Include Campus Recruiting

Across the world there are thousands of college campuses full of soon-to-graduate students eager to enter the workforce. Recruiters can enrich their candidate pipeline by forging relations with this demographic. University or campus recruiting...

Mason Mitchel

September 25, 2020

Recruiting Hacks

Creating a Career Page That Converts

A well-crafted career page has the power to win over and convert qualified candidates. However, in order for that to be the case, it requires careful oversight and to be recognized for what it truly is—a valuable tool in the recruiting tool belt...

Mason Mitchel

Recruiting Hacks

Essential High Volume Recruiting Tactics in 2020

Looking to hire top talent at scale? With the right tactics and technology in place, the process can be streamlined without compromising quality. High-volume recruiting refers to the process of hiring large numbers of candidates in a short amount of...

Mason Mitchel

Recruiting Hacks

A Recruiter’s Guide to Identifying Cost Savings

Mason Mitchel

Recruiting Hacks

How to Use AI for High Volume Recruiting

The job market is governed by one constant—change. Sometimes that change can be anticipated, like seasonal recruitment cycles. Other times, it’s the result of unforeseen circumstances, such as the recent global health crisis and the corresponding...

Mason Mitchel

Product Tips

Learnings from SmartMessage Early Access

SmartRecruiters recently launched SmartMessage, the industry’s first natively-built text recruiting solution. This will allow hiring teams to reach a wider pool of candidates and deepen their engagement—bridging the divide...

Iris Huang

August 6, 2020

Hiring Success Product Tips Recruiting Hacks

How to Build the Best Business Case for a New ATS

When it comes to cost savings, few software applications can compete with a modern, sophisticated applicant tracking system. Demonstrating those savings in the form of a sound business case is half the battle. Economic downturns pose unique...

Mason Mitchel

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

Product Tips

SmartRecruiters’ 10 Favorite Product Releases of 2019

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

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

What Do Job Seekers Ask About During a Pandemic?

When talent acquisitions leaders were strategizing for 2020 they could not have anticipated the rapid changes that would occur in the candidate market. On March 11th 2020, the World Health Organization officially proclaimed COVID-19 a worldwide...

Catherine Munnelly

How Does a Contextual Candidate Experience Impact Hiring?

“Give the candidates the information that they want, in the right format at the right time. Make them curious so they want to know more, so they always have a good feeling and know why you’re the right employer — or not.” It’s as simple as that says...

Catherine Munnelly

7 Questions to Challenge Your Candidate Journey

When was the last time you put yourself in the shoes of a candidate looking for a job on your careers site? Losing sight of the candidate’s perspective can often be the case for recruitment teams who are understandably busy. But when you start...

Catherine Munnelly

How Did a Recruitment Chatbot Boost VBZ’s Hiring Process?

Recruitment processes are not always as simple as we’d like them to be. External factors such as requirements by law for specific benchmarks to be met or an internal resistance to change can frustrate recruiters who value building a successful...

Catherine Munnelly

Recruiting Hacks

How to Recruit Furloughed Employees

With an unemployment rate in excess of 13%, the overwhelming majority of industries find themselves unable to maintain their pre-COVID employment numbers. Yet, while many companies have experienced a considerable contraction in their workforce over...

Jackson Hille

Recruiting Hacks

A Hiring Freeze Guide for Recruiters and TA Leaders

So you’re the head of your organization’s talent acquisition team and your CEO just implemented a hiring freeze. What’s next? First, don’t panic. While companies typically implement a hiring freeze in response to a downturn, this doesn’t mean that a...

Sarah Wilson

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