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16 Roles and Responsibilities for Your Talent Acquisition Dream Team

Building an effective talent acquisition function requires a careful orchestration of people, processes, and technology. Not only do leaders have to ensure the people who report to them are empowered to do...

Lee Ann Prescott

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Recruiting Technology Trends 2024: What the Experts Are Saying

Do you ever wonder who sets the trends? Who actually decides that a given solution is so good that everyone starts rushing to implement it? In the recruiting technology space, it’s not just technology...

Lee Ann Prescott

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6 Hiring Capabilities You Can’t Live Without in 2024

Improving hiring capabilities has always been a mixture of updates to processes and technologies. As you look ahead, it’s helpful to know where simple process changes can help you, and where you might need to...

Lee Ann Prescott

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6 Secrets of Talent Attraction in 2024 [Data + Expert Tips]

Job boards, referrals, CRMs, career sites, chatbots, AI-based matching—where do you start in the quest to attract skilled talent to the business so you can fill roles on time? With so many options, there might...

Lee Ann Prescott

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Recruiting Statistics on the Best Technology to Exceed Goals for Hiring Skilled Talent

Research shows that hard-to-find talent is harder to find than ever: according to the new Talent Board Recruitment Survey Report: Tactics & Strategies for Winning Hard-to-Find Talent in 2024, 60% of...

Lee Ann Prescott

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16 Roles and Responsibilities for Your Talent Acquisition Dream Team

Building an effective talent acquisition function requires a careful orchestration of people, processes, and technology. Not only do leaders have to ensure the people who report to them are empowered to do their best work, but they must also gather...

Lee Ann Prescott

February 7, 2024

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Recruiting Technology Trends 2024: What the Experts Are Saying

Lee Ann Prescott

6 Hiring Capabilities You Can’t Live Without in 2024

Improving hiring capabilities has always been a mixture of updates to processes and technologies. As you look ahead, it’s helpful to know where simple process changes can help you, and where you might need to apply technology to solve your hiring...

Lee Ann Prescott

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6 Secrets of Talent Attraction in 2024 [Data + Expert Tips]

Lee Ann Prescott

Recruiting Specialized Talent

Recruiting Statistics on the Best Technology to Exceed Goals for Hiring Skilled Talent

Lee Ann Prescott

December 20, 2023

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Four Amazing Career Sites and Why We Love Them

Just how important is a great career site for attracting and engaging talent? Very important, it turns out. According to joint research with the Talent Board and SmartRecuriters, career sites are the number one recruiting technology survey...

Lee Ann Prescott

December 13, 2023

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Six Ways Recruiting Will Be Different in 2025

Have you ever wondered how pundits make far-off predictions about technology? Future thinkers get clues on what might happen tomorrow by looking at the combination of problems faced by the majority today and how trendsetters are solving them. At...

SmartRecruiters Team

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Four Secrets to Talent Acquisition Leadership in 2024

At many organizations, talent acquisition has finally reached its potential as a strategic function. At the beginning of 2023, 70% of global talent acquisition (TA) professionals told LinkedIn their teams could claim a seat at the proverbial table. ...

Lee Ann Prescott

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10 Do’s and Don’ts for Keeping Pace with Recruiting Technology

Lee Ann Prescott

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5 Ways a Flexible Applicant Tracking System Powers Hiring Success

Remember the Before Times? Not just before the pandemic, but before the smartphone, before streaming television, and before email, depending on your age. Any adult alive today has lived through seismic shifts in technology that create new behaviors...

Lee Ann Prescott

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6 Key Responsibilities of a Talent Acquisition Operations Manager

There’s no doubt that talent acquisition has become more complex. Often, leaders turn to technology without understanding how their systems will work together to solve recruiting challenges. Often, they try to retrofit functionality to homegrown...

Lee Ann Prescott

September 12, 2023

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How to Improve the Candidate Experience While Reducing Application Drop-Off

Have you ever lost interest in a company after reaching a long application form? If so, you’re not alone in being offered a poor candidate experience. Research shows that the candidate drop-off rate for people who click “Apply” but never complete an...

Lee Ann Prescott

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How Playtech Got Started with a Recruiting CRM

A candidate relationship management system (CRM) for recruiting is an essential tool for building out talent pools and engaging prospective candidates. Aptitude Research found that companies with a recruiting CRM are 2X more likely to have a...

Lee Ann Prescott

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Customer Stories Hiring Success Inside SmartRecruiters

8 Ways to Grow Recruiting Expertise with the SmartRecruiters Customer Community

Lee Ann Prescott

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5 Real-Life Examples of Talent Acquisition Leadership

Leading a team through a major technology implementation is a career milestone. Implementing a new talent acquisition platform often involves months of preparation and focused coordination of internal and external resources. Every day, the customer...

Lee Ann Prescott

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4 Hiring Trends You Need to Know About in 2022

Staying on top of current hiring trends is one of the best ways to craft a successful hiring strategy. This is particularly relevant at the moment, as the US and global economies are trending towards an uncertain future. The hiring landscape is...

Augusta Henning

April 5, 2022

A Guide to Remote Collaboration for Designers

By now, we’ve all started to adapt to the “new normal” of remote work. As designers, some of these habits have come easier than others but we’ve found that introducing constraints and utilizing design tools have helped tremendously —go figure...

Sarah Essghaier

Future of Work Recruiting Hacks

Psychometric Testing For Hiring – FAQs and Answers

There are many methods and approaches companies can take when screening new hires. Major consultancy firms like Deloitte refine the process through psychometric testing, which provides valuable insight into a candidate’s personality. A company...

Future of Work Recruiting Hacks

The Recruiter’s Guide to Retaining Tech Talent

Enterprise Companies are Ready to Leave Their Legacy Applicant Tracking Systems Behind (Infographic)

Recruiting operations are mission-critical to enterprises searching for top talent, yet the majority of hiring teams continue working with legacy systems that fail to deliver ROI. Modern businesses are under continuous pressure to remain...

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7 Ways to Make High-Volume Hiring Easier

Companies that engage in high-volume hiring know that its unique needs require different processes for moving large numbers of candidates from application to hire. Companies often run into three roadblocks: Candidate drop-off: How do they keep...

Lee Ann Prescott

September 21, 2023

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Supercharge the Candidate Experience with These 6 Keys to Offer Management

Some companies go to great lengths to provide a stellar candidate experience by building a personalized career site, an easy application process, and collaborative interview workflows. All that good work can fall apart, however, with slow and clunky...

Lee Ann Prescott

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How to Structure Your Interview Process to Deliver a Great Candidate Experience

The candidate experience has many components. The pre-application experience is all about converting the right candidates to complete an application. The application experience is about making it as easy as possible for candidates to provide their...

Lee Ann Prescott

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4 Ways Talent Acquisition in France is Getting More Strategic

Lee Ann Prescott

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Future-Proof Talent Acquisition with These 8 Predictions and 4 Mindset Shifts

How do you think about the future of talent acquisition—and gather the resources to future-proof your organization? While we truly don’t know what’s coming, we can read the signals of what’s happening now and make predictions about what might happen...

Lee Ann Prescott

Product Tips

Learnings from SmartMessage Early Access

SmartRecruiters recently launched SmartMessage, the industry’s first natively-built text recruiting solution. This will allow hiring teams to reach a wider pool of candidates and deepen their engagement—bridging the divide...

August 6, 2020

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How to Build the Best Business Case for a New ATS

When it comes to cost savings, few software applications can compete with a modern, sophisticated applicant tracking system. Demonstrating those savings in the form of a sound business case is half the battle. Economic downturns pose unique...

Hiring Success Product Tips

Everything You Need to Know About Onboarding in 2022

The onboarding process is what bridges the gap between the candidate and employee experience. This transitional phase is subtle and quick, but, when given due consideration and care, pays off in dividends in the long run. Onboarding is one of...

SmartRecruiters’ 10 Favorite Product Releases of 2019

6 Tips to Keep in Mind When Buying Your Next Applicant Tracking System

One of the most important parts of shopping for software is informing yourself as a consumer ahead of time. To that end, here’s valuable intel, backed by years of industry experience, on how to carefully research and select the next addition...

Rich Lewis-Jones

Inside SmartRecruiters

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How to Manage and Measure Personalized Candidate Experiences at Scale

Personalized experiences are memorable. Think of the last time you were greeted at a hotel by name, or when a retail associate took the time to understand your needs and preferences. While a candidate experience is not quite the same as a customer...

Lee Ann Prescott

October 26, 2023

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How Applicant Tracking System Usability Improves Hiring Outcomes

Usability is an often overlooked feature in HR systems. Systems built more than 20 years ago were born from a mindset that having the technology to manage recruitment activities was better than working on paper, and it was—if you could learn how to...

Lee Ann Prescott

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Get the Latest Resources for Recruiter Training in the SmartRecruiters University

Making hiring look easy requires thoughtful configuration behind the scenes. Hiring teams come to SmartRecruiters for the ATS’s ability to adapt to their unique needs—which can change at any moment and require reconfiguration. Additionally, team...

Lee Ann Prescott

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10 Takeaways from UNLEASH America 2023

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A New Chapter for SmartRecruiters: Leading the Charge for the Future of Hiring

SmartRecruiters community, As the new CEO of SmartRecruiters, I can’t overstate how excited I am about the future of our company. As we embark on this new chapter together, I’m honored to join an amazingly talented team that’s committed...

Michael DeSimone

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28 Recruiting Statistics on the Candidate Experience

We live in an experience-driven world. Companies spend significant time and resources to improve the customer experience, employee experience, and product user experience. In recruiting, it’s all about the candidate experience. As the front door to...

Lee Ann Prescott

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6 Ways Australian Talent Leaders Are Future-Proofing Hiring

Have you ever thought of talent acquisition as an art form? If you can talk about it in an art gallery, it most certainly is! On the 14th of November, 2023, talent leaders will be discussing The Art of Talent: Hiring Without Boundaries at...

SmartRecruiters Team

How to Design an End-to-End Candidate Experience [Expert Tips]

Trying to improve the candidate experience can feel like chasing an ever-moving target. In recent posts, we’ve covered the many stages of the candidate experience: pre-apply, application, interviewing, offers, and the employee experience. While all...

Lee Ann Prescott

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6 Tips to Improve the Employee Experience for Internal Mobility & Referrals

Talking about internal mobility and making it happen are two different things. According to Aptitude Research, only 25% of companies are confident with their internal mobility strategies, and 77% have lost talent due to the lack of career...

Lee Ann Prescott

23 Global Talent Acquisition Statistics for 2023

When you’re trying to manage a talent acquisition team, keeping up with hiring trends can feel like another full-time job. The good news is that people at companies like LinkedIn, Randstad, Aptitude Research, KPMG, and Accenture have full-time jobs...

Lee Ann Prescott

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4 Reasons to Make Talent Acquisition a Key Business Initiative

How do you navigate hiring amidst constant uncertainty? Talent acquisition has seen it all in the last few years, from mass layoffs to talent shortages. Thankfully, companies like Aptitude Research invest in surveys that uncover trends in how...

Lee Ann Prescott