Candidate Engagement

The Top 12 TA Resources of 2021

After a year of learning and knowledge-sharing among TA leaders and professionals, we’re feeling pretty prepared to take on 2022. Get your recruiting ready for next year with our top 12 resources for TA teams. This list has everything you need to know about sourcing, hiring, onboarding, and more in the new year. 1. 6…

Why Emerging Businesses Should Utilize an ATS

Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) like the one from Jobvite are among the most powerful recruitment tools in business today. That doesn’t mean they’re only for big companies, though. Emerging businesses can also benefit from using Jobvite ATS, an affordable and adaptable part of Jobvite’s industry leading talent acquisition suite. Whatever your needs, an ATS can…

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…