Candidate Engagement

3 Ways Automation Can Help Convert Candidates to Happy New Hires

Speed and efficiency are critical in talent acquisition – especially when you’re under pressure to fill open roles in a tight labor market. Talent teams everywhere are looking for new ways to streamline processes, eliminate barriers, and optimize the end-to-end candidate experience. Fortunately, new advancements in automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the face…

Here are 3 Ways to Make Applications Faster and Easier

There’s no question that the current employment market is tough for talent acquisition pros. In August 2021, there were 11 million job openings in the US – nearly twice the open positions reported a year earlier. This puts job seekers in the driver’s seat and leaves employers competing fiercely for top talent. In fact, recruiters…

A Guide to Hiring Military Veterans for Civilian Roles

Each year on Veteran’s Day, we pause to honor the contributions and sacrifice of military service members and their families. This year, that group includes thousands of military veterans returning home after the end of active conflict in Afghanistan. As talent acquisition pros, our appreciation of veterans shouldn’t end after November 11. Each year, roughly…

3 Ideas to Optimize Applications and Automate Candidate Screening

Talent acquisition teams are constantly looking for ways to streamline processes, save time, and maximize efficiency. That’s even more true under challenging conditions like the current job market, where employers are competing for top talent and candidates have become increasingly selective. For smart talent teams, automation can help alleviate some of the pressure to fill…

Agility and Adaptability, the Key to Successful Recruiting

Learn how recruiters are creatively responding to a new set of industry challenges to hire top talent quickly and efficiently

 Today, the U.S. is seeing a return to early 2020 employment numbers, with the economic recovery allowing many companies to increase staffing levels rapidly. However, priorities and expectations in the workplace have shifted, putting increased…

Not Getting Enough Applicants? You May Have A Candidate Conversion Problem

You keep hearing about record job openings as the country heads back to work. Yet here you are, sitting at your desk, looking at your ATS and wondering why it isn’t overflowing with applicants. You’ve exploded your budget for ads, slapped a new banner on your company home page, and begged staff to refer past colleagues. This…

5 Lessons from Manufacturing Job Seekers

The manufacturing industry has faced a whirlwind of shifting expectations, opportunities, and shortages over the past year. Last fall, we surveyed manufacturing recruiters to learn more about their challenges for our 2020 Recruiter Nation Survey and learned that manufacturing recruiters are struggling with too many applicants without the necessary skills or qualifications, and increased stress…

6 Tips for Recruiting in a Candidate’s Market

What a difference a year makes. From a stalled job market in 2020 to one where many sectors are thriving and workers have the upper hand. Why do they have the upper hand? Well, in what is (hopefully) the tail-end of the pandemic in the U.S., the economy is predictably changing for the better, but…

Engaging Candidates Through Automated Texting

Recruiters across all industries are seeing the benefits of texting with candidates to provide a better candidate experience. Whether you’re recruiting in healthcare, manufacturing, retail, or quite frankly any industry, candidates are always near their phones and frequently check and respond to texts. In fact, texts have a 98% average response rate. Text recruiting lets…

2021 Job Seeker Nation: Key Findings from This Year’s Report

Learn how the workforce is responding and adapting one year into the pandemic  This just in! Jobvite’s 12th annual Job Seeker Nation Report has been released, uncovering a profound change in concerns, challenges, and priorities for workers while navigating the job seeking process amidst COVID-19. At 6.2%, the U.S. unemployment rate today is lower than it was…