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Building Trust Through Partnership: Our Customer-Centric Approach
As a trusted advisor to our customers, building strong relationships in today's world is crucial. Our goal at GR8 People is to not only offer a significant impact and ease of doing business, but to consistently deliver value and ensure customer success with our solutions.
Uncover Everyone with Talent Rediscovery
In today’s ever-changing and hyper-competitive labor market, employers must think differently about how they source new workers. Your best source of talent may be closer than you think.
The Risks of Outdated Recruiting Technology
If 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?
World Series Special Edition: The Importance of ‘Team’ in Software
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
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.
Once upon a time the Applicant Tracking System did everything a recruiter needed it to do…
Once upon a time in the enchanted Kingdom of Recruitment, there was a powerful tool that made the lives of recruiters easier. This tool, was known far and wide as the ATS, the all-powerful Applicant Tracking System that had the capability to find and bring forth the best talent to recruiters.
Better Talent CRM Recruiting Results: The Importance of Personalization and Segmentation
The current economy is facing a talent deprivation crisis where there is a shortage of skilled workers to meet the demands of companies. Competition for top talent is fierce and as a result, companies are constantly seeking new and innovative ways to stand out from the crowd and attract the best candidates.
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 more.
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 and persistent clinical worker shortages.
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.
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 record as co-founders of two prominent talent acquisition technology companies over the past 20 years, we couldn’t imagine better voices to weigh in on the state of women in the workforce.
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 audiences—often in the form of candidate personas—and the ability to personalize the experiences of your talent pool members.
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 stats. As much as 69% of companies globally have reported a talent shortage, and during 2021, employers added an astounding 3.8 million job openings.
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.
The Ultimate Way to Measure the Success of Your Virtual Recruiting Events
Whether hosting events for recruiting, internal mobility or early talent information sessions, there’s a strong chance that your event will be—or can be—virtual.
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 descriptions and within the overall candidate experience and communications.
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.
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 common and desirable attributes.
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 and convert them to applicants. The result is that too many programs end up being little more than a series of regular email blasts about job openings that match the candidate’s field of interest.
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.