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Highlights From Day Two at Hiring Success ’20

A recap of the final day at Hiring Success 20 in San Francisco! The best-in-breed conference for all topics and products talent acquisition and Hiring Success. If you thought day one was full of energy then day two was out of this world. The...

Mason Mitchel

Noah Schreiber

Jackson Hille

February 12, 2020

Hiring Success

Hiring Success ’20: Top Takeaways From Day One

Noah Schreiber

Jackson Hille

Recruiting Hacks

12 Questions to Ask When Hiring Remote Team Members

In today’s global economy, more and more employers are turning to remote or distributed workforces as part of their hiring strategy. This requires a certain level of trust in remote employees to be organized and productive self-starters. To screen...

Matt Shealy

Hiring Success Podcast Podcast

Episode 9 – How to Apply Market Segmentation in Talent Acquisition

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

7 Hiring Success Speakers You Won’t Want to Miss

Noah Schreiber

January 24, 2020

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

Company culture is crucial for organizational alignment. It is the glue that holds businesses together. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that candidates are vetted not only according to their skills, but also culture fit. In order to fairly and...

Mason Mitchel

Hiring Success

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

Hiring Success is where the future of talent acquisition is decided. With an unparalleled lineup of speakers—from the fastest growing startups to Fortune 500 companies— the conference boasts something for everyone’s interests and...

Noah Schreiber

Hiring Success

Hiring Success and Beyond: SmartRecruiters’ 2019 Highlights

Mason Mitchel

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

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

Future of Work Recruiting Hacks

The Recruiter’s Guide to Retaining Tech Talent

Retaining highly skilled tech workers is a huge challenge for recruiters in this tech-driven ultra-competitive era of recruiting. In order to do so, there are a few key insights recruiters should be aware of. Attracting and hiring STEM workers is...

Vinati Kamani

January 24, 2020

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

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

Scott Wardell

Future of Work

Do Robot Interviewers Eliminate Bias?

In the fight against unconscious bias, Sweden experiments with AI – but will robotic interviewers really catch on? Meet your interviewer, Tengai: she’s friendly, observant, and did we mention she’s a robot? Tengai’s 16-inch glowing face sits on a...

James Deeney

Recruiting Hacks

Essential Guide to Employee Referral Programs in 2020

Employee referral programs are a critical component of every great talent acquisition strategy. Not only are they a reliable source of candidates for your pipeline, they’re easier to implement than you might think. It’s no secret that...

Mason Mitchel

January 21, 2020

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

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

Recruiting Hacks

4 Tips on How to Create Perfect Postings For Remote Jobs

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

Product Tips

SmartRecruiters’ 10 Favorite Product Releases of 2019

An overview of the evolution of SmartRecruiters’ Talent Acquisition Suite over the course of the last 12 months. In 2019, SmartRecruiters’ product team focused on user love, making existing products more powerful and intuitive at the...

Mason Mitchel

December 27, 2019

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

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

SmartRecruiters

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

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

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

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

Talent is the most critical component of every successful company. Hiring the best talent, though, can be incredibly challenging. As competition for this precious resource increases, businesses can come out ahead by referencing the Hiring Success...

Jerome Ternynck

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 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

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