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How talent leaders are investing in talent acquisition strategies during uncertain times
How do you plan for the future when there’s a lot of uncertainty? This is a question we’ve all had to ask ourselves over the past few years, but it’s especially critical for talent acquisition professionals right now. We gathered a panel of talent leaders to discuss the talent acquisition strategies and solutions that they’re relying on – even when the future is especially unpredictable. Read on to learn some of the key insights they shared.
How to structure and optimize your email outreach campaigns
Finding talent to match the skills and experience needed for a role can be challenging. That’s why it’s critical for recruiters to be able to deliver personalized and well-thought-out email outreach campaigns. If your emails are going to stand out from the rest, it’s important to be thoughtful in your approach to get prospects interested in opening your emails and learning more. Read on for our expert tips on how to structure and optimize your email outreach campaigns.
Email templates for recruiters - Scale your candidate outreach
Writing thoughtful outreach emails to passive candidates can sometimes be time-consuming and challenging – but it doesn’t have to be. An effective way to scale your candidate outreach is by creating email templates that can be adapted to various outreach campaigns when sourcing candidates for multiple roles. To help you get started, we've put together this guide on how to create an email template library to save you time while scaling your candidate outreach.
Why a thoughtful candidate sourcing strategy is key to business success
In the past few years, the economic climate has seen rapid changes, which sometimes leads to confusion for businesses looking for clarity on how to build out their hiring goals. Should you slow your hiring, or speed it up? To be successful in any economic climate, you need to find ways to grow and plan for the next wave of hiring. That’s why it’s so important to be actively thoughtful and strategic about your candidate sourcing strategy.
How to effectively source and engage passive candidates
In our webinar, Sourcing the smart way: Engaging outreach, you’ll learn from sourcing experts at Amperity, Two Chairs and Greenhouse about how to design effective and scalable sourcing campaigns to attract and keep talent engaged.
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…