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The #10YearChallenge for Recruiting: What’s Changed Since 2009?

Vervoe

The viral #10YearChallenge taking over our social media feeds inspired us: how has recruiting changed since 2009? Flashback to 2009: the world of recruiting was a different place. In fact, some online experts declared 2009 “THE year to get to know and effectively utilize social media tools.” 2009: Social media vs 2019: AI.

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Creating Meaningful and Positive Candidate Experiences

The Staffing Stream

“If you treat candidates poorly during the recruiting process, they’re going to tell their friends. You could get away with that in 2009, but you can’t get away with it in 2019,” according to Brian Kropp , chief of human resources research for Gartner. Candidate expectations are not what they were 10 years ago. Kropp is right.

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5 Things We Learned at RallyFwd to Reinvent Recruiting

Rally Recruitment Marketing

In 2020, many of us moved to completely remote workplaces and virtual candidate experiences almost overnight. 2, 2020, we heard from 5 talent leaders who have embraced the challenges of 2020 to reinvent their talent acquisition, Recruitment Marketing, candidate experience, employee engagement and career advancement strategies. .

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The Golden Rule of Recruiting: Where Candidate Experience Is Today

ConveyIQ

The unemployment rate climbed to an all-time high of 10 percent a year later in October 2009. What did this lead to when it came to candidate experience? At the time, candidate experience was not at the top of the priority list. The company found that on average, only 4 percent of candidates hear back within a day.

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6 Resourceful Ways to Use Text Recruiting Now

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Centria Healthcare was founded in 2009 and has become Michigan’s leading provider of in-home healthcare. We think that many of these use cases are ones that employers can keep in their toolkit and use on an ongoing basis to improve the candidate and employee experience, reduce time to hire and nurture leads more effectively.

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Disrupting the Status Quo with Brand Differentiation — Important Then, Important Now

The Staffing Stream

And that’s an improvement from 2009 when women represented just 10%. But before 2009, female entrepreneurs were even more rare. Unlike our competitors at the time, our focus was the candidate experience. In 2009, I was introduced to the Women Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). I intended to change that.

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How to Keep Candidates Engaged On a Long Recruiting Timeline

ConveyIQ

In fact, a recent Addison Group survey shows that 40% of candidates will lose interest in a job if they haven’t heard back from a hiring manager within a week of the interview, while 54% of recruiters say that the hiring process can take as long as a month. continue to get longer, increasing by 15% since 2009.