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Seasonal Hiring Tips For The Holidays & Beyond

Table of Contents Seasonal Hiring Strategy Where To Advertise Your Job Openings How To Get Job Seekers To Apply What About After The Holidays That Is A Wrap Retailers are facing an historic test this holiday season when it comes to staffing their...

Todd Burns

October 26, 2021

Recruiting Strategies To Reduce Candidate Ghosting

Todd Burns

Announcing The Internal Recruiting Awards Winners: Top 3 Internal Mobility Programs Of 2021

Table of Contents Entries and Judging Internal Recruiting Awards Winners AdventHealth Amentum Uncommon Schools Sign Up For The Awards Winners Webinar Internal recruiting has always accounted for the top source of all hires made, in every industry...

Ryan Frazier

What Recruiters Need To Know About Hard To Fill Positions

Jackson Hille

Let’s Get Smartr

Jerome Ternynck

July 31, 2021

Hiring Success

Hiring Success

Hiring Metrics That Matter In 2021

Table of Contents The Three Metrics of Hiring Success Candidate Pipeline Hiring Plan Dashboard Report Builder Quarterly & Yearly Hiring Metrics Conclusion One of the coolest parts about being a recruiter at SmartRecruiters is that not only am I...

Maggie Hennessey

July 15, 2021

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

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

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

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

Your employees are your most precious asset. By taking preventative measures to curtail burnout, you’ll safeguard their overall health and ensure that they’re engaged and productive in the long run. Employee productivity is crucial for a...

George Griffiths

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 2021

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

11 Million Hires, $1.5 Billion Valuation, And Delivering Hiring Success Around The World – A Letter From SmartRecruiters’ CEO, Jerome Ternynck

When I founded SmartRecruiters, the vision was simple: connect people to jobs at scale by making hiring easier. Hiring is a fragmented, opaque process undermined by outdated technology that turns off candidates and hiring managers. But it doesn’t...

Jerome Ternynck