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Structured hiring explained
What is structured hiring? Here's our step-by-step summary of this foundational process.
Achieve measurable success: Setting onboarding goals for new employees
Most new hires have a lot on their minds, from relationship-building to compliance tasks to learning a new role – now you can help set them up for measurable success with Greenhouse Onboarding Goals for New Hires.
Why an applicant tracking system is essential to hiring success
Today’s job market is uncertain, unstable and confusing, but there are ways businesses can come out on top – and it starts with your recruiting process. An effective and structured recruitment process allows companies to attract, hire and even retain top talent. We sat down with Jaime Engle, a Greenhouse advocate and Principal at Lantern Partners, to learn more about the most important factors to consider when investing in an applicant tracking system.
How to source top talent: Questions to ask hiring managers
In order to source the right talent, it’s important to know which questions to ask hiring managers before you begin your search. These questions can help you determine whether a candidate is right for the job. In this blog, we’re sharing expert tips and the most insightful questions to ask hiring managers from Greenhouse's Senior Talent Acquisition Manager Mason Calaiaro and Technical Talent Sourcing Manager Jessica Cronk.
Overcoming talent acquisition challenges in 2023
Today’s TA leaders are engaged in a balancing act between finding the right moments to put the proverbial pedal to the metal – and when it makes more sense to slow down and fully take in the surroundings. BrightHire’s Co-founder Teddy Chestnut recently moderated a panel discussion, Overcoming TA challenges in 2023, between Checkr’s VP of Talent Justin Ayers, Greenhouse’s Head of Talent Planning & Acquisition Ariana Moon and Salesloft’s Director of Talent Amber Schwartz. The conversation focused on friction in the hiring process – when is it a problem, when is it an opportunity and how might it impact your approach to TA? Explore some of the highlights of the conversation.
Drive greater ROI with efficient hiring practices
In today’s economy, an efficient hiring process isn’t a nice-to-have; it’s a necessary investment to maximize business outcomes while saving time and resources. Join our expert panel as they share…
Staying people-first in challenging times
As a company, investing in inclusion, diversity, equity and allyship (IDEA) is not only the right thing to do for a business – it’s also the smart thing to do. But IDEA is also vulnerable to being…
How to get the best hire: Recruiting advice from the pros
Watch this discussion with Anita Grantham, Head of HR at BambooHR, Vanessa Brulotte, Human Resource Business Partner at BambooHR and Mason Calaiaro, Leadership Talent Acquisition Manager at…
Strategic recruiting: Become a trusted advisor
Recruiters often struggle to be seen as strategic advisors, missing out on opportunities to take a proactive role in driving conversations around hiring and business goals. Learn the four key skills…
Tips for improving interview scorecard submission rate
Are you following all structured hiring best practices, like hosting a kickoff meeting with your hiring manager, aligning on the business objectives of the role and building an interview kit, but even after all this proactive work and close collaboration, still get low scorecard submission rates? In this guidance article, we’ll address why scorecard submission rates might be low at your organization and how you can implement highly effective change management to increase scorecard completion by your hiring panels.
Investing in talent acquisition strategies
Spark Hire hosted an on-demand webinar featuring panel experts from Greenhouse, Spark Hire and AWL.
Betting on recruiters: How to avoid burnout panel discussion
This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Conference 2022. Millions of recruiters are working around the clock to fill open requisitions and hire talented people on behalf of amazing brands and organizations.
Working smarter: What the best recruiters do to win
This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Conference 2022. Hung Lee, Curator of Recruiting Brainfood, will guide an enlightening panel discussion with recruiting leaders from NPR, Modernizing Medicine, BlockFi and SeatGeek to explore the specific tools and techniques of elite TA teams.
Navigating a structured hiring and kickoff process
A structured hiring kickoff like a GPS app – before this tool was universally available, we relied on complex, fold-out maps to try to find where we needed to go. GPS technology, on the other hand, gives a well laid out series of directions that gets us to the front door of our destination.
How to foster fairness and inclusion: A guide for recruiters and hiring managers
This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Forum: Building Belonging 2021 It’s time to demystify the confusion around what “good” means when it comes to your DE&I strategy. In this session…
Tips for staying inclusive when using Auto-Advance in Greenhouse
Our own Auto-Advance feature in application review gives users the ability to set criteria that will automatically progress candidates from application review to any future stage of the interview process. Learn how to stay inclusive in this process.
Recruiter agility: Building a strong hiring foundation when you’re not hiring
Hiring plans are subject to change. Especially during times of uncertainty. As recruiters, you already know how to be nimble and navigate the ever-changing needs of your company. But what do you focus on when you’re not hiring?
Structured hiring 101 worksheets
We’ve all seen what happens when companies aren’t on the same page when it comes to recruiting. It leads to wasted time, duplicated efforts, and a whole lot of frustration for everyone involved. If you’ve experienced this lack of alignment and want to correct it…
Hiring hacks: How Kik built an interview process its engineers love
In this webinar, Joshua Dunton, a recruiter at Kik, shares how he has found a way to better automate the recruiting process and increase the involvement of Kik’s engineers.
10 common hiring manager roadblocks and how to overcome them
In the topsy-turvy world of talent acquisition, often it seems like recruiters and hiring managers are on different teams. Sound familiar? As a recruiter, you do all this great outreach and legwork to…
How Kabbage defines their ideal candidate – A new approach to a standard job description process
Diagnosing your recruiting funnel
Have you ever found yourself wondering why sourced prospects aren’t responding to your outbound messages or why you have a high number of candidates not converting from onsite to hires? Well, with the…
Learning how to craft better job posts
This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Conference 2019. Katrina Kibben, expert recruitment consultant and founder of Three Ears Media, is going to teach you to think differently about writing…
Workshop: Sharpen your top of funnel skills – Lyft’s sourcing best practices
This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Conference 2019. During this workshop, Lyft’s Recruiting Team will share their best practices and practical take-aways to cut through ambiguity…
Recruiting events simplified: A recruiter’s perspective on using the Greenhouse Events app
Structure is key to excellent hiring: A bulletproof 5-step plan for interviewing success
Structured hiring made simple with these useful worksheets
In an ideal world, recruiters, hiring managers, and everyone else involved in the hiring process would be perfectly aligned. After all, everyone has the same goal: to get great candidates to accept…
How to implement structured hiring: Step 1 – role kick-off meeting
Last week, I introduced our Structured Hiring 101 eBook and explained the benefits of the structured hiring approach. Structured hiring not only gives recruiting teams better outcomes, but it also…
4 steps for determining what motivates a passive technical candidate
Lauren Allanson is a Technical Recruiter at Greenhouse. She works with Engineering to create recruiting strategies, find and evaluate candidates, and grow the team. She loves working with her…
4 Strategies for recruiting marketing teams
Using personas, campaigns, and pipelines to build a robust marketing team Struggling to find the right people for your marketing team—those who have both the necessary skills to do the job now and…
Architecting the interview process for success: 4 steps to creating a structured interview
How well do interviews actually determine a candidate’s likelihood of success on the job? It all depends on how well you’re interviewing! During his presentation at the Greenhouse Recruiting…
Non-profit LIFT, Inc. relies on Greenhouse structured hiring to make recruiting seamless
In this video, hear from Haleema Ali, HR & Operations Coordinator at LIFT, Inc. as she tells us why adopting a Greenhouse-enabled structured hiring process has made recruiting seamless.
Talent Makers Studio – Episode 1: Susan Lee, SeatGeek
For Chief People Officer Susan Lee, humility is one of the things she loves the most about working at SeatGeek, a company that helps the world enjoy live events. During this episode, Susan shares what she values in a strong recruiting team…