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Better decision-making starts with structured hiring

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Create a structured hiring framework that weaves consistency, fairness and alignment into all stages of the recruitment process.

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Transforming hiring: How companies can overcome hiring challenges with AI in Greenhouse

Curious about the right AI recruiting tools that can help you solve hiring challenges? Learn more in this blog.

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Staying focused on what matters most: Great hiring

Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait provides product and company clarity on recent US Executive Orders (EOs) regarding diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I).

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Meet the 9 Talent Makers award finalists championing great hiring

We’ve carefully reviewed the hundreds of nominations for our Talent Makers® awards and have narrowed them down to nine finalists who continually go above and beyond to champion great hiring. Meet the finalists.

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The evolution of interview scheduling

In today's competitive hiring landscape, efficiency is critical. Greenhouse’s evolving scheduling solution simplifies interview coordination with recruiter-led, candidate-led and AI agent-led modes, reducing manual work and empowering teams to focus on finding top talent. Learn how these innovations transform modern recruitment processes.

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The great hiring debate: Perspectives from HR, finance and tech leaders

In today’s competitive business landscape, great hiring is more than just filling positions; it’s about securing the right talent to drive growth, productivity and competitiveness. Watch this…

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Get the eBook: Unlock business success through better hiring

Hiring is more than just an HR function. It’s a critical driver of overall business growth and success, relying on multiple organizational functions to be effective. Whether you’re a technology…

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From credentials to competencies: Mastering skills-based hiring

Hiring better teams means going beyond resumes and credentials. It means prioritizing candidates’ capabilities over conventional qualifications to make more effective, inclusive and data-backed…

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Maximize your hiring ROI with Greenhouse

IDC research shows that Greenhouse delivers a 589% ROI, proving we’re a strategic partner that helps customers maximize their hiring efforts. Watch this webinar to hear directly from our panel of…

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Faster, smarter hiring with automated systems

As a company scales, TA teams are often the first to feel the pressure. A lack of structure during a rapid growth phase can result in difficulties scheduling interviews, delays in approval processes…

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Data-driven recruiting in 2024

It’s a challenging time to hire. Facing limited resources, uncertain hiring targets and a rapidly changing recruiting landscape, talent teams are expected to do more with less. It’s more important…

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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…

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Actionable ways to improve hiring efficiency

Greenhouse hosted a webinar sharing practical ways that talent teams can ramp up efficiency, clean up data and build a strong foundation for times of low and slow hiring. Hear from Michelle…

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How to effectively assess talent with a strong interview structure

Structured interviewing helps you hire efficiently, while creating a process that’s more fair and equitable for candidates. Learn how implementing a structured hiring process from the beginning…

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Recruitment strategies: Values-based hiring

Hiring for values is essential for building a successful and sustainable company culture. Defining your values and weaving them into your hiring process creates a shared understanding of how…

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Harness data analytics to improve your hiring process

Recruiting can feel like a competitive race when searching for top talent. To succeed, companies must make talent acquisition a strategic differentiator for their business with a data-driven hiring…

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Overcoming TA challenges in 2023

BrightHire hosted a webinar featuring panel experts from Greenhouse, Salesloft and Checkr, who shared strategies about how to remove friction from your hiring process.

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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.

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The value of great hiring outlasts any economic downturn

Innovative businesses choose to invest in their hiring infrastructure during uncertain times, as well as during healthy economic times. They see an economic downturn as an opportunity to build new…

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Staying successful at hiring in a confusing labor market

If there’s one word that can be applied to the current labor market, it’s “confusing.” We’re seeing turbulence, uncertainty and a number of trends that appear to contradict each other, leaving…

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Recruiter enablement: How to upskill and retain recruiters

This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Conference 2022. The talent market for recruiters is red hot, which makes leveling up your recruiters to retain your existing talent and grow your team’s capabilities is more important than ever.

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The culture architects: The changing role of People teams

Greenhouse sponsored Remote Connect’s first annual conference, Remote Connect 2022: Building Belonging in the New World of Work. Hear from experts at Remote Connect, Stanley Black & Decker and Greenhouse on the untapped power of HR.

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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.

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Prioritizing fairness and DE&I in your hiring strategy

We brought together top talent and diversity experts from Greenhouse, Checkr and Justice Reskill to give real-world advice on maintaining your commitment to equitable hiring. Learn why high-volume…

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How to build an inclusive recruiting process

Check your bias and your list: A worksheet to help you assess your inclusive hiring It’s a given that adding structure to any process enables efficiency – and that having better data leads to…

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Hiring manager’s guide to a structured hiring process

Actionable advice for any hiring manager to learn how to hire the right person for the role As a hiring manager, you already have a lot on your plate. That’s probably why you’re hiring for your…

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Structured hiring 101: Achieving better hiring outcomes with a consistent hiring framework

This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Forum: Transform Your Hiring Practices 2021 Structured hiring creates a more strategic and consistent hiring process by making interviews more…

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Reduce bias and strengthen DE&I with a structured approach to hiring

This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Forum: Transform Your Hiring Practices 2021 Companies that embrace diverse, equitable and inclusive hiring practices see better business results. By…

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Enabling belonging through structured hiring: How to build an inclusive recruiting process

This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Forum: Building Belonging 2021 It’s a given that adding structure to any process enables efficiency – and that having better data leads to better…

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Meet the authors of Talent Makers, the book on hiring

This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Forum: Join the Talent Makers 2021 Despite its central importance to company success, hiring continues to be one of the most undervalued areas in…

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From chaos to confidence: Why structured hiring is worth the effort

This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Forum: Join the Talent Makers 2021 Great hiring is not easy. It’s competitive, it’s dynamic and it requires systems, tools and processes to do well.…

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How to use data to drive operational excellence and improve over time

You’ve understood the Greenhouse Hiring Maturity™ curve and taken the assessment to see where your team currently sits. Here's what happens next.

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Structured hiring: How to achieve the best hiring outcomes

Why structured hiring leads to better outcomes The goal of recruiting is to efficiently hire top talent for your organization. This is a straightforward objective that recruiters, hiring managers…

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Greenhouse Hiring Maturity success stories – Episode 4: Heather Doshay, Webflow

Hear from today’s talent thought leaders to discover how a winning talent strategy drives real business results.

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Greenhouse Hiring Maturity success stories – Episode 5: Brian Breth, Fair

Hear from today’s talent thought leaders to discover how a winning talent strategy drives real business results.

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Greenhouse Hiring Maturity success stories – Episode 6: Tim Sackett

Hear from today’s talent thought leaders to discover how a winning talent strategy drives real business results.

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Greenhouse Hiring Maturity success stories – Episode 7: Arthur Matuszewski, Better

Hear from today’s talent thought leaders to discover how a winning talent strategy drives real business results.

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How to make great hiring decisions

In recruiting, we put great effort into sourcing and interviewing top talent, but when it comes time to make the right hiring decisions, we far too often hit a wall. Here are four straightforward things that you, as a recruiter, can do to bring clarity and confidence to your hiring decisions.

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Greenhouse Hiring Maturity success stories – Episode 2: Erin Wilson, Team.ai

Hear from today’s talent thought leaders to discover how a winning talent strategy drives real business results.

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Greenhouse Hiring Maturity success stories – Episode 3: Neil Casey, ThoughtWorks

Hear from today’s talent thought leaders to discover how a winning talent strategy drives real business results.

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DE&I strategies that work – Episode 1: Michelle Gadsden-Williams

Hear from industry leaders how building a strong DE&I foundation enables companies to reach the next level of business success.

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DE&I strategies that work – Episode 2: Checkr

Hear from industry leaders how building a strong DE&I foundation enables companies to reach the next level of business success.

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DE&I strategies that work – Episode 3: X, the moonshot factory

Hear from industry leaders how building a strong DE&I foundation enables companies to reach the next level of business success.

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DE&I strategies that work – Episode 4: Okta, Inc.

Hear from industry leaders how building a strong DE&I foundation enables companies to reach the next level of business success.

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DE&I strategies that work – Episode 5: JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Hear from industry leaders how building a strong DE&I foundation enables companies to reach the next level of business success.

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DE&I strategies that work – Episode 6: HubSpot

Hear from industry leaders how building a strong DE&I foundation enables companies to reach the next level of business success.

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Greenhouse Hiring Maturity success stories – Episode 1: Lauren Holzer, The Knot Worldwide

Hear from today’s talent thought leaders to discover how a winning talent strategy drives real business results.

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Optimize and streamline: Structure your hiring process for efficiency

Whether you're new to structured hiring or your process could use some fine-tuning, we know that optimizing your hiring process can seem overwhelming. We’ve organized this process into three actionable steps so you can quickly build the structure you need to increase your team’s hiring efficiency.

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Creating scorecard rubrics

Scorecards are fundamental to a structured and inclusive hiring strategy. Consistent candidate evaluation helps mitigate interviewer bias, reduce total interview time and drive a more evidence-based decision framework in selecting great talent.

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Climbing the Greenhouse Hiring Maturity curve

Becoming great at hiring is more than a theory. At Greenhouse, we’ve worked with thousands of companies worldwide and seen firsthand how impactful an effective talent strategy is for business…

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Designing a structured interview process

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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…

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Structured hiring 101: Your blueprint for success

In an ideal world, recruiters, managers, and everyone else involved in the hiring process would be perfectly aligned. Yet most of us have had frustrating experiences due to an unstructured approach…

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The art of decision-making in hiring

This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Conference 2019. Despite structured hiring, techniques to eliminate bias, state of the art tools and great collaboration across all stages of the hiring process, the rate of failure and wasted effort in hiring is substantial. Our panel of experts…

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The philosophy of structured hiring: Why you need an interview plan, every time

This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Conference 2019. During this fireside chat, hear why Talent Maker Grace Koo, Managing Director and Head of Talent Acquisition at AQR Capital, is passionate…

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How structured recruiting sets you up for hiring success

Join Daniel Chait, CEO of Greenhouse Software and Matt Clarke, Head of Talent Acquisition at Genius, as they discuss best practices for building a Structured Recruiting process. Get tips and…

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Structured interviewing: How to architect an effective process and get organizational buy-in

Many companies largely rely on impressions from unstructured interviews to make hiring decisions. There has been vast literature that calls into question the validity of an unstructured process...

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An introduction to structured recruiting and Greenhouse

In today’s market, companies are growing rapidly and competing for candidates. The first step in recruiting talent is to have a strategic and comprehensive approach to sourcing, interviewing and…

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How Betterment built an effective in-house recruiting process

Small companies might be able to get away with unstructured hiring processes, but as headcount begins to grow, Structured Hiring becomes non-negotiable. Just ask Christina Kane, Head of Talent at…

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How great hiring builds great companies

This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Conference 2019. Warby Parker is known for being a wonderful place to work. In this session we'll learn from Warby Parker co-founder and co-CEO Dave…

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Changing the world, one hire at a time

This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Conference 2019. Non-Profits are critical to creating change in the world. Hear how Classy supports non-profit organizations by turning hiring into a key…

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A quick and easy guide to structured interview questions

Would you ever bake a cake without a recipe? It’s a risky endeavor, and you are very likely to end up with something other than the outcome you were hoping for. Similarly, interviewing a candidate…

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Grow responsibly! Learnings from rapidly scaling companies

This session recording is from Greenhouse Open Conference 2018

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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…

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How to implement structured hiring: Steps 5 and 6 – interviewing candidates and reviewing feedback

I hope you’ve been enjoying my blog series on Structured Hiring! Previously, we explored the meaning of structured hiring and then dove into how to implement it, including conducting the role…

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How to implement structured hiring: Step 4 – create an interview kit with these four types of questions

Just last week, I explained steps #2 and #3 of the structured hiring process—defining your scorecard and planning your interview. (Click here if you’re interested in knowing what step #1 is). Now that…

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How to implement structured hiring

Steps #2 and #3—defining your scorecard and planning your interview In last week’s post, I introduced the first step in carrying out the structured hiring approach: doing a role kick-off meeting…

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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…

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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…

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10 examples of competency-based interview questions

By now you know that the recruiting and hiring process is a key element to your company’s success. It’s no secret that every company approaches hiring differently, but at the end of the day, the…

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Building trust and efficiency at Udemy

In early 2023, a decision was made to consolidate all HR operations under one umbrella. This created an opportunity to transform and unify people processes and experiences throughout the entire shelf life of an employee.

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Wrike reduces time-to-fill by 10 days with structured interviewing

Wrike is a collaborative work management platform trusted by more than 20,000 customers in 140 countries with offices in the US, Europe and India and 850+ employees distributed globally.

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5 tips for successfully integrating Greenhouse’s Harvest API

Want to connect Greenhouse to all of your recruiting and hiring workflows? Harvest API lets you build integrations that programmatically create and update candidate, job and organization data from Greenhouse – seamlessly.

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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.

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Cultivating collaboration at Stitch Fix

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Scaling internationally with Evernote

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Hiring for hyper growth at PlanGrid

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