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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.
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’s mindsets have changed about their jobs. Many Americans have questioned what really works for them at work over the course of the pandemic.
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 recruiting seasons, foremost that we are still able to successfully engage with students to fill current openings, as well as talent pipelines for future needs, virtually.
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’s natively-built text recruiting solution and what the functionality can mean for recruiters and candidates alike.
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.
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 roles, the strategic application of recruiting automation to an organization’s process is essential to move forward.
#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.
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. Here, Fil shares tips and insights on how the Ardene team selected a talent platform to help dramatically improve applicant management while enabling the team to begin building a strategic talent pipelining program.
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.
How to Leverage Your TA Tech Stack for Better Employer Brand ROI: Part II
In the first part of this two-blog series, I discussed the importance of employer branding to recruiting and retention success and the significant investment that companies make to get it right. However, one of the challenges I’ve observed in recent years is that too many organizations fail to make sure that talent acquisition teams are leveraging their recruiting technology across four critical phases of the candidate journey.
How to Leverage Your TA Tech Stack for Better Employer Brand ROI: Part I
The attention to and investment in employer branding as part of an organization’s comprehensive strategy to attract and retain talent is essential to realizing recruiting success. According to LinkedIn, the vast majority of enterprise talent acquisition teams remain committed to their investment, too, as “63% of talent professionals expect their employer branding budget to increase or stay the same.”
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.
3 Ways to Use Technology to Mitigate Hiring Bias and Improve Workforce Diversity
As organizations examine the need to vastly improve their workforce diversity efforts, many have recognized that not only is it just the right thing to do—it’s also crucial to their ability to perform.
Recruiting Metrics: What's the Story Behind That Stat?
The numbers don’t lie. This is one of those pesky phrases that almost always pops up on lists of overused clichés and business jargon that we’re told to avoid. However, given the rapid adoption of big data to fuel everything from organizational network analysis to predictive hiring, it’s likely that the phrase isn’t going away anytime soon.
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.
People Analytics: Overcoming HR Data Challenges for Program Success
Recently, I completed the Harvard Business Analytics Program, a combination of online and in-person curriculum exploring current issues and topics in business analytics. A cross-disciplinary program, we studied how analytics are being used to solve challenges and realize efficiencies.
Improve Career Website Success with These 3 Key Performance Metrics
Among the biggest benefits a career website content management system (CMS) affords is the ability for recruiters to act immediately on shifting hiring demands, whether that means adding content about a new office location to support the associated hiring push or developing a landing page that highlights a functional area that represents a critical talent need.