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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

September 18, 2020

Customer Stories

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

Jessica Foo

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

Hiring Success Podcast Podcast

Episode 16—Why Dynamic Work Is the Future of Talent Attraction & Retention

Mason Mitchel

September 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

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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

May 5, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

August 28, 2020

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

Recruiting Hacks

How to Conduct a Virtual Interview

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success Recruiting Hacks

How SmartRecruiters Could Save You a Million Dollars

Technology is a valuable asset for most companies. And like all assets, it should regularly be assessed and accounted for when taking inventory. In fact, doing so could result in substantial cost savings. Right now you’d be hard pressed to find any...

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

Episode 15—Using Change Management as a Competitive TA Advantage

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Episode 15 of the Hiring Success Podcast features a discussion with Jason Paradowski, head of HR services and talent acquisition at Bosch, North America. We discuss...

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success Podcast Podcast

Episode 14—How to Build a Business Case for a Modern ATS

Jerome Ternynck and Elaine Orler shed insight on how to make a compelling case for new TA tech.

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success Podcast Podcast

Episode 13—What the Recruiting Community Is Doing to Overcome Adversity

Roy Baladi and Gerry Crispin talk about the ways in which TA leaders and tech companies are working together to help one another navigate the economic downturn.

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

Top Corporate Social Responsibility Trends in 2020

According to a recent report from Aflac on corporate social responsibility (CSR) report from Aflac, consumers, workers, and investors are putting increasing pressure on American corporations to make meaningful contributions to the greater social...

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

What Happens to Employee Recognition When Your Team Goes Remote?

When you’re a few desks down, congratulating a colleague for a job well done is as easy as walking a couple steps and saying “nice job!” Congratulating that colleague looks a little different when a few feet becomes a few miles (or more) between...

Katerina Mery

Hiring Success

Internal Mobility: More Than an Excellent Sourcing Channel

Internal mobility is an integral component of a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy. Not only does tapping into this resource promote greater engagement in the workplace, it can also make your organization more resilient during downturns. What...

Sarah Wilson

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