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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 of gig workers becoming a force to be reckoned with.
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. In this blog she shares thoughts on the challenges and opportunities AI brings to 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 agile. Even as technology solutions and automations continue to flood the talent acquisition software market, recruiting teams still struggle with lengthy time to hire averages and ongoing efficiency barriers.
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 steps that enterprise organizations can take to make the implementation process go more quickly and more smoothly.
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 than ever, right? Wrong.
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.
How To: Prepare for a Recruiting Technology Review
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.
#GR8Tips on How to Attract, Engage and Hire Veterans Transitioning into Today's Job Market
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.
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 system. The approach was often used with the intention of making up for features and functionality that weren’t (but should have been) available in their ATS.
How to Use Talent Acquisition Success Metrics to Demonstrate Value to the Business
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.
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 premium on operational excellence, which we see reflected in the priorities of HR leaders.
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 everything from better sourcing strategies and shorter time to fill averages to much happier hiring managers and candidates.
How Strong is Your Talent Acquisition Technology's Core?
From talent CRMs and automated sourcing applications to candidate matching algorithms and video-based assessments, these solutions give recruiters tools that are essential to realizing the advantages they need to compete in our current employment landscape.
TAtech's Top 100 Most Influential Thought Leaders: Wisdom and Storytelling with GR8 People CEO and Co-founder, Diane Smith
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.