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Talent teams face more and more pressure and responsibilities, yet organizations are slow to recognize the impact of their role or to provide necessary support. Talent acquisition professionals are often the unsung heroes of their organizations – but it’s time for that to change. We're celebrating recruiters in this new series.

First impressions are everything, especially when it comes to recruiting emails. In our Sourcing emails series, we're exploring how to create compelling introductory emails that will attract top talent.

An essential part of attracting great talent is writing effective emails. We're launching our Sourcing emails series to take an in-depth look at the different types of emails to include in your outreach campaigns to effectively engage prospects.

With the demand for talent more competitive than ever before, sourcing and recruiting tools are invaluable – automating this process to quickly find the best prospects that fit your criteria is a game-changer. We’ve compiled this short list of 4 great sourcing and recruiting tools to help you find, attract and snag great talent.

When you’re on a hiring spree, there are plenty of pain points and potential problems that can arise. We caught up with three members of the Greenhouse talent acquisition team – Maria Culbertson, Team Manager, Talent Acquisition, Seán Delea, Team Manager, Talent Acquisition and Will Rubin, Team Manager, Technical Talent Acquisition – to hear some common mistakes companies make when scaling rapidly and how to avoid them.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

Spark Hire hosted an on-demand webinar featuring panel experts from Greenhouse, Spark Hire and AWL.

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

Integrating a diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) lens into how your company attracts and selects talent is essential. Inclusive recruiting and hiring is an intentional, ongoing effort that helps your company make the right hiring decisions.

Your talent pipeline is your most valuable asset. Whether you’re experiencing a sudden increase in applicants or prospecting for future roles, how you manage your pipeline today will determine your…

Design an efficient process with Greenhouse to streamline your top of funnel and effectively nurture talent for future hiring. Whether you’ve experienced a sudden influx of applicants or you’re…

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?

Your guide to building a strong hiring foundation, even when you’re not hiring Hiring plans are always subject to change. Sometimes it’s a strategic business decision to slow down growth and focus…

Sourcing and hiring top talent has never been more competitive. Smart recruiters know that they must innovate in order to attract the right candidates to open roles. But while focusing energy…

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…

Lars Schmidt, Founder of Amplify Talent and Co-Founder of HR Open Source, discusses the ways in which recruiters and hiring managers can develop stronger alignment in an effort to improve internal…

We sat down with Neil Frye, Global Head of Recruitment at Dropbox, to discuss HR myths that remain prevalent in today’s hiring world and how companies should navigate around them.

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.

In this webinar, Maia Josebachvili, former VP of People and Strategy at Greenhouse, shares how to use data to measure HR performance, become a strategic asset to business leaders, and make an…

Think like a programmer. Talk like a programmer. Hire a programmer. Okay, so the formula may not be that simple, but learning how to speak tech talent's language is definitely a lot easier than you…

In this Entelo and Greenhouse webinar, we let Kenny Mendes take the reigns to share his story scaling Box from 40 people to over 1,200. Learn how to apply these strategies to structure and manage…

It’s no secret that today’s recruiters are faced with the daunting challenges of competing with other companies to hire not only the best engineers, but ones that are a solid, long-term fit with the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

There’s no question that recruiting and marketing go hand in hand. The similarities are plentiful: sharing your story, telling the world how wonderful and innovative your company is, and of course,…

The talent market is more competitive than ever. In the past year, the U.S. unemployment rate went from 5.3 percent to 4.9 percent—and the number of employed individuals rose by nearly 60 thousand (…

Most companies post job openings on their website, where they describe the position and qualifications, and invite candidates to submit an application . This is a great recruiting tactic, but works…

You know how it works. You want to recruit your next set of high performers. You send out a few hundred emails to potential candidates, then wait for a response. You get some replies. A few have…

When you’re a growing company, things are great! Your product is doing well, you’re adding new people to your organization. There’s a certain buzz and energy you can feel in the air. That also…

A common question I’m asked by colleagues in Recruiting, Human Resources, and People Operations is: How do you actually do interview training? First, the fact that you’re planning interviewing…

You’ve been working on a hard technical search for weeks (or maybe even months) without much progress. You posted your job and waited. And waited. Very few qualified or nearly senior enough…

When you’re a recruiter in a rapidly growing company, you know that you’re going to have to spend the majority of your time filling roles. Functioning well as a team, becoming thought leaders in the…

Reference calls. Probably not the most thrilling part of an interview process, but when conducted thoughtfully, they can provide invaluable insight that you just can’t get through interviews and…

As a recruiter who manages a recruiting team for a company that sells recruiting software , I’m often asked “Wait... what? What do you do?” But that’s not what this post is about. This post is about…

Planning out an employee referral program can seem complicated, and there are definitely a lot of moving parts. But if you’re looking for a source of high-quality employees who are more likely to…

Hiring new talent can be time-consuming, not to mention costly: according to Geoff Smart, author of the bestselling book Who: The A Method for Hiring , a poor hiring decision can cost a business up…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…