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Talent Acquisition

5 GR8 Tech Tips to Boost Your Employee Referral Program

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.

Customer Stories

Q&A with Randstad’s Graham Trevor: Part II: The Transformative Power of People Analytics

In Part I of our conversation with Graham Trevor, an HR director at global recruitment consultancy Randstad, we explored the value of using data to measure recruiting outcomes and how to build an effe

Hiring Events

5 Smart Ways Talent Acquisition is Leveraging Virtual Recruiting Events to Attract, Retain and Support Employees

Among the many demands talent acquisition teams have had to adapt to quickly is the need to shift their hiring practices from face-to-face recruiting events and onsite interviews to an end-to-end virt

Customer Stories

Q&A with RetailData’s Terri Shiffer: Hiring Part Time Workers in Today’s Fiercely Competitive Market by Streamlining the Candidate Experience

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. With

AI and Automation

Recruiting Automation: What’s New, What’s Next and What’s Needed

Many talent acquisition teams are running leaner and will be even busier as demand for talent surges. Whether the added workload comes in the form of high-volume hiring initiatives or hard-to-fill rol

Customer Stories

Q&A with Rob Felicetta: Using Automated ATS Reminders to Drive Efficiency

Rob Felicetta is the director of talent innovation for Informatica, a leader in Enterprise Cloud Data Management that helps global organizations become more agile, realize new growth opportunities and

AI and Automation

Sourcing With Your Superpowers: AI and Automation

Recruiters do amazing work. From connecting people with great opportunities and shepherding candidates through the hiring maze, to persuading talented professionals to accept a job offer and so much m

Talent Acquisition

Recruiting Software Implementation: Best Practices Begin with a Hiring Process Audit

One of the most rewarding aspects of the work I do guiding enterprise organizations through their implementation of new recruiting software is seeing firsthand the impact modern technology has on ever

Hiring Events

Virtual Campus Recruiting: 7 Steps Recruiters Can Take to Stand Out with Gen Z

The strategies early talent recruiters plan to use in order to engage and recruit on campus and online continue to evolve. There were plenty of lessons learned over the course of the past two recruiti

Customer Stories

Q&A with Ardene’s Fil Farinaccio D’Urbano: Using Technology to Manage High-Volume Applicant Flow and Build a Talent Pipeline

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.

Applicant Tracking

Operational Excellence and the Recruiting Function: The Unequivocal Value of a Unified Talent Platform

Operational excellence has always been a primary objective of successful businesses, from the productivity of people to the efficiency of systems and processes. The pandemic has placed an even higher

Candidate Relationship Management

Building a Better Candidate Experience Starts with a GR8 Communication Strategy

Is poor communication costing you great hires? Employer brand messaging has become more essential than ever in today’s hiring climate. However, all the hard work invested in elevating the employer bra

Talent Acquisition

3 GR8 Tips for Hiring Success in the Gig Economy

There was a time when organizations viewed gig workers as a luxury or an auxiliary piece of their workforce. The last few years have turned that notion on its head. Research supports the growing trend

Candidate Relationship Management

3 Ways to Sharpen Your Segmentation Skills for Better Talent CRM Recruiting Results

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 audie

Talent Acquisition

3 Ways to Modernize Healthcare Recruiting That You and Your Candidates Will Love

It’s tough out there for talent acquisition teams across all industries. However, healthcare recruiters are facing particularly difficult challenges to attract and hire talent beginning with severe an

Candidate Relationship Management

How To: 5 Smart Steps to Gathering Content for Candidate Nurture Campaigns

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 an

AI and Automation

AI and Bias: The Challenges and Opportunities for Talent Acquisition

Jayne Kettles is the co-founder and chief product officer at GR8 People. She’s been a technologist, product visionary, and innovator in the enterprise software industry for more than 15 years. A senio

Other

GR8 Employee Spotlight: Get to Know Chase Hall

Get to know Senior Product Manager Chase Hall, who brings his product and project management, consulting, and customer support experience to our incredible product team at GR8 People.What’s your role

Candidate Relationship Management

Best Practices and #GR8Tips for Text Recruiting

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. Here, she talks about the platform’

Employer Branding

3 Ways to Better Communicate Your Employer Brand and Stand Apart From the Crowd

The scramble for top talent is on. Job seekers are carefully looking for location flexibility, alignment with a company’s ethics, salary transparency and more across corporate career sites, in job des

Talent Acquisition

How Recruiting Operations Can Adopt Agile Principles for Better Talent Acquisition Results

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. Arduous, perhaps, but not ag

Employer Branding

Candidate Personas: Your Path to Better Messaging

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 com

Other

International Women’s Day: Perspectives From 2 GR8 TA Tech Pioneers

In recognition of International Women’s Day, we went straight to GR8 People’s favorite sources of inspiration—CEO Diane Smith and Chief Product Officer Jayne Kettles. Given their successful track reco

AI and Automation

GR8 Tips to Keep Talent Engaged with Consistent, Personalized and Automated Candidate Communications

It’s no surprise that the recruiting landscape has shifted over the last several years and candidate expectations are looking a whole lot different than what you may be used to. It’s a candidate’s wor

Talent Acquisition

Pump up The Volume: How High-Volume Recruiters are Hiring Smarter and Faster

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

Candidate Relationship Management

How To: Use Talent Acquisition Technology to Drive Candidate Experience Success

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

Customer Stories

Q&A with RetailData’s Terri Shiffer: Hiring Part Time Workers in Today’s Fiercely Competitive Market by Streamlining the Candidate Experience

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. With

Applicant Tracking

Recruiting Software Implementation Strategies: 5 Essential Questions for Vendor Reviews

One of the main reasons organizations avoid replacing sub-par talent acquisition technology is the time-intensive nature of implementation. Yet this doesn’t have to be the case because there are many

Talent Acquisition

Internal Mobility: The Rise of Talent and Opportunity Marketplaces

Pressure on organizations to improve their internal mobility programs was felt well before COVID-19 disrupted the workplace and accelerated digital transformation among corporations worldwide. Yet, th

Talent Acquisition

The Rising Role of Company Culture in Recruiting

Is it a watershed moment for company culture? Yes. And a recent LinkedIn 2022 Global Talent Trends report agrees. The report shares the commonly held opinion by many of us in talent acquisition that c

Metrics

Today’s Labor Shortage Calls for More Data-Driven Recruiting

Organizations are desperately seeking skilled professionals to fill their open positions and the war for top talent is at an all-time high. While this isn’t new news, let’s take a look at some of the

Applicant Tracking

Point Solution or Talent Platform? Set Up (Don’t Trip Up) Your Recruiting Teams

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

AI and Automation

World Series Special Edition: The Importance of ‘Team’ in Software

By: Diane SmithThis is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could hav

AI and Automation

The Risks of Outdated Recruiting Technology

By: Vince LyonsIf it’s not broken, don’t fix it, right? Wrong! How often do you feel that you miss out on great candidates because you couldn’t move fast enough or always feel a step behind? Do usabil

Customer Stories

Q&A with Randstad’s Graham Trevor: Part I: Building a Data-Driven HR Function

Graham Trevor is an HR director at global recruitment consultancy Randstad. He leads the UK human resource function for specialist businesses, providing best-in-class services that improve organizatio

Hiring Events

Virtual Recruiting Events: Best Practices to Lead Your Talent Acquisition Team to Success

The abrupt shift to working virtually has presented employees everywhere with significant challenges across organizational strategy, communications, logistics and process. For talent acquisition—a pro
Multi-channel sourcing + AI to find top talent fast.
A custom career site to entice the best.
The CRM to nurture your future hires.
The ATS to fast-track your talent.

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