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#GR8THINKING FOR GR8 MINDS IN TALENT ACQUISITION
#GR8THINKING FOR GR8 MINDS IN TALENT ACQUISITION
Candidate personas—borrowed from marketing’s highly successful use of “buyer” or “shopper” personas to drive consumer messaging—represent a picture of your target candidate based on a composite of common and desirable attributes.
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By Annette DeHaven
One of the most common challenges talent acquisition teams face when launching—and especially maintaining—a Talent CRM program is finding fresh content that will appeal to their talent pool members and convert them to applicants.
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By Dan Mayo
Matt Miller is the Senior Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Worldwide Clinical Trials, a Contract Resource Organization founded by physicians to advance medical science and achieve successful drug development.
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By Annette DeHaven
When most people, whether they’re on the employer side or the job seeker side, think about the traditional hiring process, agile usually isn’t the word that comes to mind.
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By Jayne Kettles
One of the main reasons organizations avoid replacing sub-par talent acquisition technology is the time-intensive nature of implementation.
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By Alex Ockford
Qualified, interested and available candidates. You need a lot of them and you need them now. With unemployment still towering above pre-pandemic levels, high-volume hiring should be easier and faster than ever, right? Wrong.
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By Annette DeHaven
Pandemic restrictions are easing up and many professionals are brushing up their resume. Earlier this year, 1 in 4 American workers indicated that once the threat of COVID took a sharp decline, they’d start looking for a new job. Interestingly, 42% of those who admit they’re ready to jump ship also graded their employer a “C” or below for their ability to maintain employee “connectedness and culture” during the pandemic.
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By Annette DeHaven
There’s little mystery as to why top talent is in the driver’s seat. There are 8.6 million people considered out of work in the U.S. and nearly 10 million job openings. Supply and demand aside, people’s mindsets have changed about their jobs. Many Americans have questioned what really works for them at work over the course of the pandemic. The answer of ...
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By Diane Smith
The 2021-22 school year is underway. The strategies early talent recruiters plan to use in order to engage and recruit on campus and online only continue to evolve.
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By Patrick Amaral
Diane Smith is GR8 People’s Co-founder, CEO, head coach and curator for our overall strategic direction and the driving force behind our commitment to teamwork, talent platform excellence and superior customer service.
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By Annette DeHaven
Competition for tech workers alongside the need to attract, retain and support diverse talent will only increase in the coming months. Investing time now to assess your organization’s ability to connect and engage with a broader range of skilled tech talent, as well as leverage the hiring tools that mitigate bias, will help you proactively prepare.
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By Annette DeHaven
Terri Shiffer is the Human Resources Director for RetailData, a company that partners with the largest retailers in the world to deliver timely and accurate pricing intelligence at massive scale.
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By Annette DeHaven
Diane Tarbell is a product manager at GR8 People, where she plays an integral role in the continued evolution and advancement of our One-Experience Talent Platform.
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By Annette DeHaven
For those actively hiring in-demand talent, employee referrals—long established among the top sources of quality hires—should be playing an even bigger role in your talent acquisition strategy today.
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By Patrick Amaral
As organizations set out to conduct recruiting technology vendor reviews, many will begin by looking externally at current vendors and their associated product offerings. Yet, my experience working with hundreds of enterprise organizations suggests that teams realize much greater vendor selection success when they look internally first. In particular, those that take a step back and clearly articulate their business situation will find they are far more effective in aligning their needs to the right system and partner.
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By Jack Coapman
The economy analysts at Goldman Sachs are forecasting an unemployment rate of 4.1% by the end of 2021. Their forecast is driven by a strong uptick in the overall economy along with significant hiring in sectors that shed jobs at the start of the pandemic.
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By Dan Mayo
Casey Miller is the Director of People and Talent for Apex Service Partners, a relatively new and rapidly growing platform of award-winning HVAC, plumbing and electrical service businesses. Apex supports the success of its partner companies by investing heavily in both add-on acquisitions and organic growth initiatives including people development and technology.
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By Annette DeHaven
About 200,000 active-duty service members transition out of the military each year adding to a talent pool of about 18 million employable veterans across the country. Although many gain incredible work experience and build valuable skill sets, finding a job that translates to their background can be a challenge.
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By Annette DeHaven
Following the progression of many other sectors, recruiting trends within the finance and insurance industries are aligning with 2021’s improving economic performance. Talent acquisition teams within the sector are recognizing that they must act quickly in order to ensure their organizations attract and retain the A-players needed to continue steering the business in the right direction.
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By Alex Adams
Fil Farinaccio D'Urbano is the head of people and culture for Ardene, a fashion retailer with more than 300 stores in Canada and the United States, as well as multiple locations beyond North America.
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By Annette DeHaven
Prior to 2020, many enterprise organizations took a build-your-own strategy to their talent acquisition tech stack by layering best-in-breed point solutions on top of their existing applicant tracking system.
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By Patrick Amaral
The name GR8 People sums up everything our software helps our customers in talent acquisition find—GR8 People.
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By Alex Adams
Those who have existing Talent CRM programs in place can attest that success is rooted in authentic and credible candidate communications, which require an in-depth understanding of one’s target audiences—often in the form of candidate personas—and the ability to personalize the experiences of your talent pool members.
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By Dan Mayo
It’s not easy to go more than a few days without seeing another new report or article examining the desire employees have to continue working from home long after the pandemic subsides.
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By Alex Adams
The need for HR’s expertise, insight and leadership has never been greater. Whether seeking advice on how to manage a remote workforce during a pandemic or address persistent DEI challenges head on, CEOs are increasingly reaching out to HR at a level not previously seen.
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By Chase Hall
