SmartRecruiters Hiring Success Journal

Recruiting Hacks

Top 10 Resources for Recruiters (That Are Fun and Informative)

Need some inspiration? These Talent Acquisition resources are chock-full of knowledge and personality! In the last five years, the recruitment industry found itself undergoing an exciting renaissance. A...

Kaya Payseno

Recruiting Hacks

Sourcing Experts Share Their Top 5 Hacks

Ahead of Sourcing Success 19 on April 9th, experts from Recruitics, SmartDreamers, SmartRecruiters, and VONQ share strategies to win over today’s candidates. Sourcing is defined as the early stage of the...

Kaya Payseno

Future of Work

Is the Skills Gap Really a Lie? We Dive in…

New research says the skills gap is the product of low unemployment, but this new report may be missing the point. Earlier this year a report from American Economic Association spurred articles by the...

Kaya Payseno

Person typing on a laptop as they sit at a desk.

Recruiting Hacks

4 Pitfalls to Avoid When Writing Your Next Job Advertisement

With candidates viewing a job ad for less than a minute on average, recruiters can’t waste time with these common mistakes. Picture this. It’s Friday morning. You’re ready for another great day of recruiting...

Max Woolf

Recruiting Hacks

The 4 Most Common Mistakes Of Mobile Recruiting

Even if you live under a rock, in the middle of a dense forest, surrounded by a desert wasteland, you still know that recruiting is now a mobile game. The average person will spend over four hours on their...

Anastasia Svyrydenko

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Who Will Pay the $34 Bn to Reskill America’s Workforce?

Automation means greater productivity and economic growth but it is not clear who is going to pick up the tab for the displaced workers. In December, General Motors (GM) announced plans to slash 15 percent of its salaried workforce and shut down...

Mark Gregory

April 12, 2019

Recruiting Hacks

Top 10 Resources for Recruiters (That Are Fun and Informative)

Kaya Payseno

4 Ways to Win Over Passive Candidates

Successfully recruiting passive candidates requires mastering the art of persuasion. According to LinkedIn’s hiring statistics, only 30 percent of people are actively looking for new jobs. This means 70 percent of LinkedIn users are passive...

James Deeney

Recruiting Hacks

Sourcing Experts Share Their Top 5 Hacks

Kaya Payseno

Future of Work

Is the Skills Gap Really a Lie? We Dive in…

Kaya Payseno

March 28, 2019

Hiring Success

New Productivity Hack and 4 Other Highlights from Our Final Day at Hiring Success 19

The sun sets on our final day, and here are five learnings we’re taking with us from day two. Riding high off the carnival treats from the last night’s SmartyParty, Hiring Success 19 attendees braved another misty morning in San Francisco as they...

Kaya Payseno

February 27, 2019

Hiring Success

Day One at Hiring Success and There’s a Lot to Talk About… Like SmartRecruiters’ New Corporate Social Responsibility Program

SmartRecruiters announces a new corporate responsibility initiative (CSR), and three other moments worthy of a mic-drop. This morning, merry conference-goers were greeted by a classic case of San Francisco rain and fog. Is it any surprise that the...

Kaya Payseno

Hiring Success

Why Job Brand is the Next Hot Thing in TA — with Expert Marketer, Maren Hogan

From her unique perch in TA marketing, this CEO has an unparalleled view of the industry that you’ll want to see! HR tech marketing is a pretty small niche to land on but for Maren Hogan, CEO and Founder of Red Branch Media, it just made sense. This...

Kaya Payseno

Hiring Success

Meet the Fab Five Pitching it Out at the Hiring Success 19 Recruiting Startup Awards

Scott Wardell

Hiring Success

Carnival on the Pier: Smarty Party, Hiring Success 19 – Americas

Food trucks, giant Jenga, LED hula hoopers, and a cupcake Ferris wheel – these are just some of the colorful delights you can expect at this year’s Smarty Party. After Colin O’Brady’s shares with us his record-breaking journey solo and unaided...

Kaya Payseno

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 that connects the formerly incarcerated with second-chance jobs.

Scott Wardell

October 25, 2018

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

Founded in 2004, Tipico is the leading sports-betting provider in Germany. The company has quickly grown and employs more than 600 people, thanks to their Talent Acquisition Team. Meet one of the Managers behind the charge. For Antonio Arias Lopez...

Kaya Payseno

Customer Stories Hiring Success

60 Mil Seats to Fill: A Recruiting Story

Peter Braun

Customer Stories

Recruiting in Finance, What we can Learn from a French Firm Who Thought Global

When a growing management consulting company needed an applicant tracking system to handle its global business, there was only one choice for the HR Tech that could meet and surpass their myriad needs.

Peter Braun

Future of Work

Could Recruiting AI Combined with Old-School Psychology be Technology’s Next Evolution?

With so much focus on how machines will automate recruiting, one researcher argues we cannot overlook the importance of human psychology as a crucial machine learning tool. Given the amount of sci-fi films released in the last three decades...

Mark Gregory

March 12, 2019

Future of Work Podcast To Whom It May Concern

TWIMC #4 Interview Prep & Nailing The Interview

SmartRecruiters

Future of Work

Despite the Recent Google Fine, GDPR is Proving to Be Helpful for One Particular Group: Recruiters

News of Google’s 50 million euro fine has rocked the business world, but as other multinationals panic, recruiters can rejoice in some of the unexpected benefits of the GDPR regulation. On January 21st, 2019, The French Data Protection Authority...

Mark Gregory

Future of Work

‘Degree Inflation’ and 3 Other Need-to-Know Terms for Hiring in 2019

Kaya Payseno

Future of Work

5 Ways Employee Onboarding Software Can Unlock Recruits’ Job Potential

If you want to predict the end for your employees, look no further than the start. A bumpy on-ramp into your organization could very well be steering many of them to the nearest exit.

Christopher Pappas

Recruiting Hacks

4 Pitfalls to Avoid When Writing Your Next Job Advertisement

Max Woolf

March 27, 2019

Recruiting Hacks

The 4 Most Common Mistakes Of Mobile Recruiting

Anastasia Svyrydenko

Recruiting Hacks

Define Your Candidate Persona in 4 Steps

With a precise concept of the target demographic, recruiters can source with laser precision – here’s how! It’s no secret that in the past five years, recruiting has espoused marketing tactics to attract passive and highly sought-after talent in...

Ali Neill

Recruiting Hacks

Top 5 Challenges of a Candidate-Driven Marketplace – Listen to the Podcast Now!

Kaya Payseno

Recruiting Hacks

7 Pros and Cons of Decentralized Hiring and Why Your ATS is Responsible

Local hiring managers are frequently tasked with making recruiting decisions at many global organizations, but are their decisions only as good as the technology behind them? Decentralized hiring models are like beehives, with different company...

Mark Gregory

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.

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

Future of Work Product Tips

It’s All Good, Co.

Peter Braun

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...

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

Could You Pitch a Candidate on Relocating to the South Pole? Kimberly Jones Can.

Meet the recruiting strategist who’s sought talent for the likes of NASA, ahead of her session at Hiring Success 19 – Americas, February 26-27 in San Francisco. Kimberly Jones isn’t afraid to point out the obvious: if a company cares about diversity...

Kaya Payseno

Connect, Care, Create: Moving the Recruiting Needle with LinkedIn’s Sr. Director of TA, Chris Louie

We talk people analytics with the TA leader breaking down big data at Hiring Success 19, February 26-27 in San Francisco. Chris Louie, Senior Director of...

Kaya Payseno

Hiring Success

5 Sessions that Will Redefine the ‘Possible’ for Your TA Team at Hiring Success 19

Who’s ready for a paradigm shift? Here are the session highlights most likely to change your mind, deepen your empathy, and get you out of your chair. It’s time to get on your feet and out of your comfort zone. In just two weeks, over one-thousand...

Kaya Payseno

Recruiting Hacks

5 Technical Recruiting Insights from Over 100K Coding Tests

Discover the most recent developer hiring trends based on real customer data. The demand for software developers is rapidly increasing, with the US Bureau of Labor Statistics projecting a 24 percent growth in the need for these skills between 2016...

Tom Winter

Tech’s Impact on Recruiting: The Next Three Years with Lars Schmidt

Sometimes a strategic view doesn’t mean high-level, it means seeing what’s happening on the ground… Lars Schmidt, founder of Amplify, joins SmartRecruiters for the fourth annual Hiring Success 19 – Americas, February 26-27 in San Francisco...

Kaya Payseno

Hiring Success

No More Bad Press: Diversity and Inclusion with Torin Ellis

D&I may not have a finish line, but that doesn’t mean we want to have the same conversation 50 years from now. Torin Ellis, host of SiriusXM CareerMix, author of RIP the Resume, and leading diversity and inclusion (D&I) strategist joins...

Kaya Payseno

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