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Candidate Experience & the Application Process: 4 Things You’re Doing Wrong

Social Talent

The core component of a strong employer brand is a positive candidate experience which really defines how current and potential employees perceive you as a company. The importance of optimising the candidate experience cannot go understated. 37% said they would actively tell others to seek employment in that company âś….

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Candidate Experience Part III – Tools

Great Hires

In the first two articles of this series we discussed the role of people and process in the success of the candidate experience. This article is intended to provide a framework for how to think about the tools you use to enhance your candidate experience. Priorities to improve. Tools to solve the priorities.

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No Quick Fix: Why HR Technology Can’t Fix A Broken Candidate Experience.

Recruiting Daily

There are a ton of tools out there that purport to be some kind of silver bullet for candidate experience. From enterprise platforms to point solutions, the concept of “candidate experience” has become increasingly commoditized, an organizational imperative reduced to a software sales pitch.

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6 Fascinating Recruitment News Stories to Kick-Off the New Month – 1st August 2016

Social Talent

LinkedIn recently surveyed over 8,000 STEM professionals about their careers and job seeking habits in an effort to understand how big the gender gap really is and how we can start closing it. SmashFly is Dabbling in “Early Admittance”. Tracey Parsons, Director of Recruitment Marketing Practice at SmashFly. That is, until now.

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Part 1: How to Turn Passive Leads into Hires

Glassdoor for Employers

This series is a partnership with SmashFly covering the key elements and examples of nurture in a recruitment marketing strategy. Look for Part 2 and 3 on the SmashFly blog! The key to providing this kind of candidate experience is implementing a modern recruitment marketing strategy that includes nurture.

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How to Make a Better Recruiting Video

Symphony Talent

Findings from the 2015 Candidate Experience survey show that candidates purposefully look on career sites for employee testimonials (34.9%) and answers to why people work there (30.8%). Continue Reading → The post How to Make a Better Recruiting Video appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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Q&A with Chief Product Officer: SmashFly’s New Referral Feature

Symphony Talent

Most in talent acquisition would agree that employee referrals are the most valuable external candidates their teams can get. Respondents in a recent SmashFly survey confirmed that notion: Referrals were ranked the highest quality candidate from more than 10 sources. But we also.