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Renowned University Is Trailblazer for Higher Ed Investing in Employer Brand: Princeton University Case Study ?

Stories Incorporated

Princeton’s talent acquisition team audited its recruitment practices and pinpointed its biggest challenges: wide breadth of jobs, old-fashioned brand perception, difficulty attracting high-tech talent, and limited recruiting resources. Communicating the employer brand to top talent. Enter Stories Inc.

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How LinkedIn’s Skills-Based Hiring Pilot Delivered Jobs to Workers Who Didn’t Meet Basic Qualifications

Linkedin Talent Blog

Through this innovative pilot program, the company has hired 13 customer support consultants by removing the basic qualification — two-plus years of customer service experience on email, chat, and phone — from the job description and focusing on skills rather than experience and education. That’s how Shine with LinkedIn was hatched.

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How a New LinkedIn Hiring Initiative Takes 'Skills Not Schools' to Heart and Eliminates Basic Qualifications

Linkedin Talent Blog

Through this innovative pilot program, the company has hired 13 customer support consultants by removing the basic qualification — two-plus years of customer service experience on email, chat, and phone — from the job description and focusing on skills rather than experience and education. That’s how Shine with LinkedIn was hatched.

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If You’re Not A Client of Choice, You’ll Lose in the On-Demand Talent Economy.

Breezy HR

By loose definition, being an Employer of Choice means the top talent you don’t have wants to work for you — and the top talent you do have doesn’t want to work for anyone else. Already, we see the best talent literally choosing the companies, teams and projects that interest them.

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9 Need-to-Know Recruitment News Stories – 21st September 2015

Social Talent

In the news this week: Hired Has A New CEO. There’s been a bit of a leadership shuffle at Hired : President Mehul Patel has been promoted to CEO, while the previous CEO, founder Matt Mickiewicz, has become chief productive officer. The company recently hired its first CMO too — Juney Ham, co-founder investment advisor startup Upside.

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How Removing Some Requirements from Your Job Descriptions Can Lead to More Inclusive Hiring

Linkedin Talent Blog

workers that they would be given “a fair shot” and companies would “hire them based on their skills not degrees.” Just what does skills-first hiring look like? Significantly, most of the consultants hired in this pilot did not meet the company’s previous basic qualification (BQs).

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A Skills-First Hiring Pilot Showcases How Companies Can Give Every Candidate a 'Fair Shot'

Linkedin Talent Blog

workers that they would be given “a fair shot” and companies would “hire them based on their skills not degrees.” Just what does skills-first hiring look like? Significantly, most of the consultants hired in this pilot did not meet the company’s previous basic qualification (BQs).