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23 Global Talent Acquisition Statistics for 2023

When you’re trying to manage a talent acquisition team, keeping up with hiring trends can feel like another full-time job. The good news is that people at companies like LinkedIn, Randstad, Aptitude Research...

Lee Ann Prescott

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8 Ways to Grow Recruiting Expertise with the SmartRecruiters Customer Community

Hiring Without Boundaries™ is about breaking free of limitations. And sometimes that limitation is in your mind: it can be a knowledge gap, an outdated mindset, or just an inclination that you know...

Lee Ann Prescott

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Future-Proof Talent Acquisition with These 8 Predictions and 4 Mindset Shifts

How do you think about the future of talent acquisition—and gather the resources to future-proof your organization? While we truly don’t know what’s coming, we can read the signals of what’s happening now and...

Lee Ann Prescott

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4 Reasons to Make Talent Acquisition a Key Business Initiative

How do you navigate hiring amidst constant uncertainty? Talent acquisition has seen it all in the last few years, from mass layoffs to talent shortages. Thankfully, companies like Aptitude Research invest in...

Lee Ann Prescott

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How to Deliver a Great Candidate Experience Before They Even Apply

The global talent shortage is at an all-time high: 77% of employers globally report difficulty finding the skilled talent they need in 2023, versus 35% a decade earlier. To attract more candidates, companies...

Lee Ann Prescott

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23 Global Talent Acquisition Statistics for 2023

When you’re trying to manage a talent acquisition team, keeping up with hiring trends can feel like another full-time job. The good news is that people at companies like LinkedIn, Randstad, Aptitude Research, KPMG, and Accenture have full-time jobs...

Lee Ann Prescott

May 30, 2023

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Customer Stories Hiring Success Inside SmartRecruiters

8 Ways to Grow Recruiting Expertise with the SmartRecruiters Customer Community

Lee Ann Prescott

Hiring Success Recruiting Hacks

Future-Proof Talent Acquisition with These 8 Predictions and 4 Mindset Shifts

How do you think about the future of talent acquisition—and gather the resources to future-proof your organization? While we truly don’t know what’s coming, we can read the signals of what’s happening now and make predictions about what might happen...

Lee Ann Prescott

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4 Reasons to Make Talent Acquisition a Key Business Initiative

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How to Deliver a Great Candidate Experience Before They Even Apply

Lee Ann Prescott

May 9, 2023

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10 Takeaways from UNLEASH America 2023

If talent acquisition teams were unleashed from what holds them back, what could happen? The UNLEASH conference is where they go to find out. At UNLEASH America 2023, SmartRecruiters showed up with all ears open to understand what Talent Acquisition...

SmartRecruiters Team

May 4, 2023

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How German Companies are Getting Proactive about the Candidate Experience

The global trend of high inflation and low unemployment has been particularly acute in Germany. Impacts from the war in Ukraine include supply chain disruptions and high energy costs. Research shows that Germany ranks second among global countries...

Lee Ann Prescott

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How U.S. Talent Acquisition Leaders Can Build Trust in Volatile Times

The contagious global uncertainty of the last several years has a unique flavor in the United States: political polarization, a reckoning around race, rampant layoffs in tech, and bank failures. At the same time, unemployment is low and some...

Lee Ann Prescott

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Australia Hiring Trends: Delivering Value in a Tight-Knit Ecosystem

Lee Ann Prescott

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How Technology Helps UK Companies Adapt to Rapid Changes in Hiring

Talent acquisition leaders around the world face many of the same challenges: how to attract better candidates, how to optimize their hiring processes, and how to best employ technology to help their teams. But each country has a slightly different...

Lee Ann Prescott

Customer Stories

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5 Real-Life Examples of Talent Acquisition Leadership

Leading a team through a major technology implementation is a career milestone. Implementing a new talent acquisition platform often involves months of preparation and focused coordination of internal and external resources. Every day, the customer...

Lee Ann Prescott

January 30, 2023

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The Incremental Journey to Talent Acquisition Transformation at Colliers EMEA

How does a company’s talent acquisition function tie in with talent management? And can talent acquisition (TA) move the needle on transforming an organization’s overall talent strategy? That’s the remit Ben Handyside, Director of Talent Management...

Lee Ann Prescott

Customer Stories

Now’s the Time to Connect People to Jobs at Scale

There have been a lot of clichéd phrases used to describe the “unprecedented times” we live in which we ponder what the “new normal” is and what will remain of the “past we’re leaving behind.” While these expressions might seem a bit hollow, they do...

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An Open Letter to Governments and Healthcare Orgs: We’re Here to Help

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Manufacturing TA Gold: Rethinking the Hiring Process with Caroline Boyce of American Iron and Metal

For an industry in transition, recruiting is the secret ingredient for agility. American Iron and Metal (AIM) is a fast-growing recycling company in Canada. With a footprint in six countries, they employ over 3,000 people and are looking to become...

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4 Hiring Trends You Need to Know About in 2022

Staying on top of current hiring trends is one of the best ways to craft a successful hiring strategy. This is particularly relevant at the moment, as the US and global economies are trending towards an uncertain future. The hiring landscape is...

Augusta Henning

April 5, 2022

A Guide to Remote Collaboration for Designers

By now, we’ve all started to adapt to the “new normal” of remote work. As designers, some of these habits have come easier than others but we’ve found that introducing constraints and utilizing design tools have helped tremendously —go figure...

Sarah Essghaier

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Psychometric Testing For Hiring – FAQs and Answers

There are many methods and approaches companies can take when screening new hires. Major consultancy firms like Deloitte refine the process through psychometric testing, which provides valuable insight into a candidate’s personality. A company...

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The Recruiter’s Guide to Retaining Tech Talent

Enterprise Companies are Ready to Leave Their Legacy Applicant Tracking Systems Behind (Infographic)

Recruiting operations are mission-critical to enterprises searching for top talent, yet the majority of hiring teams continue working with legacy systems that fail to deliver ROI. Modern businesses are under continuous pressure to remain...

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Where To Invest in Recruiter Training Now

With so many ways to get recruiting wrong, how do you get it right? The growing influence of talent acquisition suggests that investing in recruiter training is one way for organizations to set themselves up for success. Josh Bersin listed “Cherish...

Lee Ann Prescott

February 6, 2023

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How to Save Money with Job Advertising

Today, less than 10% of job advertising is managed programmatically, while well over 80% of brand advertising is managed through programmatic means. Brands’ shift to programmatic advertising over the last decade has been for one simple reason:...

Lee Ann Prescott

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6 Steps to Hiring for Skills

Companies have always been hiring for skills. But why has the topic become so hot in recent times? In a tight talent marketplace, companies need to reach further to attract more candidates, tap into diverse talent pools, and keep up their hiring...

Lee Ann Prescott

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5 Ways Talent Acquisition Can Come Out Ahead During a Recession

Lee Ann Prescott

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How to Make Your Employer Brand Shine on a Career Site

Hiring isn’t getting any easier. Today’s talent acquisition teams must do everything they can to attract candidates, convince them to apply, and keep them engaged until they show up on the job. In a competitive marketplace for talent, a strong...

Lee Ann Prescott

Product Tips

Learnings from SmartMessage Early Access

SmartRecruiters recently launched SmartMessage, the industry’s first natively-built text recruiting solution. This will allow hiring teams to reach a wider pool of candidates and deepen their engagement—bridging the divide...

August 6, 2020

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How to Build the Best Business Case for a New ATS

When it comes to cost savings, few software applications can compete with a modern, sophisticated applicant tracking system. Demonstrating those savings in the form of a sound business case is half the battle. Economic downturns pose unique...

Hiring Success Product Tips

Everything You Need to Know About Onboarding in 2022

The onboarding process is what bridges the gap between the candidate and employee experience. This transitional phase is subtle and quick, but, when given due consideration and care, pays off in dividends in the long run. Onboarding is one of...

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6 Tips to Keep in Mind When Buying Your Next Applicant Tracking System

One of the most important parts of shopping for software is informing yourself as a consumer ahead of time. To that end, here’s valuable intel, backed by years of industry experience, on how to carefully research and select the next addition...

Rich Lewis-Jones

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A New Chapter for SmartRecruiters: Leading the Charge for the Future of Hiring

SmartRecruiters community, As the new CEO of SmartRecruiters, I can’t overstate how excited I am about the future of our company. As we embark on this new chapter together, I’m honored to join an amazingly talented team that’s committed...

Michael DeSimone

April 25, 2023

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Winter 2018 Product Release: What Are Universal Profiles And Why Will You Love Them

Christmas may have been a month ago, but SmartRecruiters has one more little present for its users: a new product release. On January 25th, SmartRecruiters rolled out its Winter 2018 product update to all users of the platform. The release came...

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Winter 18 Feature Release

This season’s release is a hat-trick of practical use add-ons that will make your candidate pipeline more efficient, give you greater power to interpret data and enable you to expand into local markets. Every season we release new features...

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Meet Alkestis Spinou: History Enthusiast, Board Game Buff and SmartRecruiters Sales Star

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Meet Valerie Bertrand: SmartRecruiters’ Rock-Loving Head of Legal

Lawyers are often thought of as terrifying, stern, bespectacled types. SmartRecruiters’ Valerie Bertrand proves you can know your legal jargon and how to have a good time. If you work for a company that conducts any business in or with Europe you’ve...

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What to Do if You’re Locked In With an HCM Recruiting Module

We’re hearing it more and more frequently now: HCM/HRIS/ERP recruiting modules hinder companies’ ability to provide an excellent candidate experience and keep TA teams from delivering upon the goals the business is asking of them. “Recruiting...

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5 Ways Technology Helps Talent Acquisition Maintain Its Seat at the Table

The role of talent acquisition has changed substantially in the last few decades. Long viewed as an administrative function, recruiting was seen as a cost center, and systems were built to support this mentality. If the pandemic taught us anything...

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In the post-pandemic world, the rules of hiring fundamentally changed—along with the expectations for talent acquisition. When businesses struggled to hire during the rebound from the pandemic cutbacks, the star of talent acquisition rose from its...

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Generation Z (born 1997-2012) workers comprise about 12.6% of the workforce as of 2020, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, but will account for 27% of the workforce by 2025. As the years progress, employers will need to...

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How Internal Mobility Improves Employee Engagement and Retention

Internal mobility is a time-tested strategy for improving retention: LinkedIn 2022 data shows a 19-point lift in retention for those who made an internal move during a 2-year period of employment. In 2021, companies looked toward internal mobility...

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One of the most significant ways COVID-19 changed the workplace is by making remote work possible for many types of employees. It turns out that employees like remote work so much that they don’t want to return to normal — or even adapt to hybrid...

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