Is Artificial Intelligence the Key to a 4-Day Workweek?
Studies show that artificial intelligence (AI) could boost the economy and create more jobs than it eliminates going forward. Thousands of startups focused on applying new AI innovations and machine learning capabilities have sprung up around the world, and there is no shortage of investment capital. The economic opportunity is akin to the gold rush days of the 1800s. AI's biggest...
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The Machines Can't Make Your Hires: Why Recruiters Will Take a Step Away From Tech Aids in 2020
Over the last decade, we've watched as hiring and recruiting processes have become largely automated. That's both a good thing and a bad thing. Who would argue that keyword-reading software didn't become an industry-saving necessity once sites like LinkedIn and Monster arrived on the scene, allowing every yahoo with a resume to apply to any job they took a shine to? But since then,...
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Revolutionizing the Employee Experience in 2020: AI, Hybrid Apps, Contextual Experiences, and More
Building the best employee experience has been a priority for companies everywhere in the last few years, and things are unlikely to change in 2020. If anything, thanks to some recent technological advances, the employee experience is likely to become even more of a key concern. Here are a few of the ways in which innovative organizations are poised to bring the employee experience to new...
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Hiring Decisions Are Human Decisions: When It Comes to AI in Recruiting, Use Your Judgment
Recently, an application of artificial intelligence (AI) in recruiting received some attention, much of it negative. This particular application analyzes video interviews, judging — and rejecting — candidates based on facial movements, speaking voice, choice of words, and other factors. While automation that helps recruiters source and evaluate talent is a welcome development, we...
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5 Ways to Optimize Candidate UX, a Chronically Overlooked Aspect of Recruiting
When it comes to designing the recruiting process, employers tend to focus mostly on their own needs, less so on the candidate's. While the hiring process must help a company attract top talent, a truly great recruitment process is one that also works for the candidate. For a recruiting process to really deliver powerful results, the candidate's user experience (UX) must be optimized. If...
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It's Time to Embrace AI as an Integral Part of Your Company's Future
With the US unemployment rate currently sitting around 3.5 percent, identifying and securing high-quality talent is one of the main challenges the recruiting industry faces. In a market with more job openings than unemployed job seekers, there is no time to waste when it comes to filling positions. And yet, nearly half of employers say filling a job today takes longer than it ever has in...
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The HR Innovator's Mandate: Invest in People Analytics to Deliver Data-Led Strategy
According to a report from Mercer, 98 percent of organizations have started down the road toward digital transformation of HR — and not a moment too soon. From the platforms they use to get work done to those they use to engage with their employers, technology pervades the life of the modern worker. For organizations, the proliferation of workplace tech means more access to more...
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Keep It Simple: The 4 Secrets to Building a Winning HR App
Mobile apps are on the rise. The global market value of mobile apps stood at around $106.7 billion in 2018, and that figure may rise to $407.31 billion by 2026. Apps have become integral to the way we manage our daily lives, and the world of HR is no exception. Over the past few years, there has been a noticeable surge in the number of apps designed to support the activities of HR...
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5 Key Reasons HR Pros Need to Understand Data Analytics
We have more employee information available to us today than ever before, and that's a great thing. Data analytics is vital to performance management, leadership development, and finding talent. No wonder 71 percent of companies see people analytics as a high priority, according to Deloitte. I have been in leadership and management roles for more than 15 years. I've worked with...
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Win the War for Talent: 3 Technologies That Will Change the Way We Hire
The traditional landscape of recruitment is transforming. In the past, technological advances have made elements of the recruitment process quicker and less manually taxing. Rote tasks like scheduling interviews, collecting resumes, and drawing up skills matrices to match applicants to jobs can all now be performed at the touch of a button. Today, however, recruitment technology...
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Planning Makes Perfect: 4 Best Practices for Planning Recruiting Events
Being a part of the hiring team for your organization is an exciting and daunting experience. It's rewarding to have a hand in molding the future of your company, but making a hire is also a major decision with a lot riding on it. If you're also planning, attending, or hosting a recruiting event, the stress can be even greater. A lot goes into getting a recruiting event off the ground...
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Younger Workers Crave Instant Gratification. Here's How to Give It to Them Without Causing Distraction.
Gen. Z workers want immediate access to data that shows them how they're performing. That's one reason many companies — like Accenture, Microsoft, and Adobe — are doing away with traditional performance reviews. Annual cycles are just way too slow for today's workers, among other problems. Younger workers have grown up with expectations of instant gratification. They're used to...
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To Address the Gender Pay Gap, Look at the Numbers
In September, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) chose not to renew an Obama-era policy that helped collect data regarding employee wages and pay. This data had been fundamental in detailing the discrepancies between salaries earned by men and women and proving the gender pay gap actually exists. The EEOC's decision highlights just how crucial data and analytics are when...
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4 Ways to Streamline Your Social Recruiting With the Right ATS
Ten years ago the idea of using social media for anything other than posting cat videos seemed silly. But now? Social media has become one of the most powerful platforms for sourcing and recruiting top talent. Social recruiting might have seemed like a fad when it first hit the scene, but experts agree it will continue to play a key role in hiring at least into 2020. To stay competitive...
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Employees Trust Chatbots: 'AI@Work' Study Opens the Door for Recruiting Reinvention
The latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are fast becoming prevalent in business operations across industries, transforming the relationship between human beings and machines in the workplace. As people move from fear to excitement concerning AI, the time is ripe for recruiters to realize the benefits of AI for the talent acquisition function. The recent...
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Mobile Employee Engagement: What It Means for Your Frontline Employees
Consider this: Anyone over the age of 12 was born after the iPhone was released. A study of Generation Z's mobile habits found that 25 percent of them received their first smartphones before the age of 10. While millennials have been mobile pioneers, Gen. Z-ers are mobile natives born into an era of constant connectivity. They are used to immediate feedback in the form of likes and...
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The Best Online Sources for Remote Team Members
In need of a marketing expert to build your brand? Looking for a copywriter to create content for your website? Wish you had someone on your team who could build you a brand new website? Regardless of what you need, there are remote workers all over the world who could get the task done for you. But is hiring a remote employee the right move for your business? The answer to that...
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Your Conversational Recruiting Strategy Can't Succeed Without a Strong Knowledge Management Foundation
In a recent article here on Recruiter Today, Justin Moodley of LASANAN shared his advice to new recruiters: "The talent acquisition professionals who spend more time their candidate pools tend to have a better sense of how their candidates could fit in and excel at our organizations." In contrast, Moodley explains, more mechanical, hands-off recruiting processes typically bring in poorly...
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Stand Out to Top Talent With These Social Recruiting Best Practices
With the US unemployment rate hovering around 3.7 percent, recruiters today are tasked with the challenge of sourcing talent in a highly competitive, candidate-driven market. To successfully source and attract candidates in this difficult environment, recruiters must make the most of the resources available to them. Social media is one of those resources. According to a SHRM survey, 84...
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The 3 Keys to a Successful, Sustainable Career in IT
The current mantra is, "Everyone should learn to code." The problem is most people interpret that to mean "Everyone should become a programmer." Like many professions, programming takes a certain combination of talent and skills that not everyone possesses. For example, when I (Cal) was younger, I decided I wanted to learn to play the guitar. My parents bought me one, and I started to take...
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Get Your Job Ads to Rank on Google With These SEO Tactics
When employers post job ads, they have high hopes they will attract qualified applicants. However, that does not always happen. Often, unqualified job seekers will apply without even understanding the role. There are even instances, although rare, where the employer doesn't receive a single application at all. Finding the right candidates in the job market isn't just a matter of asking...
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Is Text-Based Recruiting Taking the 'Human' out of 'Human Resources'?
A good first impression at a job interview used to consist of a polite smile, a firm handshake, and stylish business dress. Today, your first impression may be based solely on how well you reply to a recruiter's incoming text message. My advice? Go easy on the emojis. In a bid to save time, a new wave of recruiters are choosing to make initial contact with candidates by SMS text instead...
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In an Age of Ethical Business Dilemmas, Women Leaders Should Be in Higher Demand
As women, we're told to lean in, to be direct, to do our best, to ask for what we want, to establish strong networks, to depend on solid mentors — and then what? We'll rule the world, apparently. But let's face it: That's not happening. We're doing our best and yet, percentage-wise, very few of us are in the upper echelons of leadership. Less than 10 percent of Fortune 500 companies are...
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The Panel Question I Wasn't Expecting: A Closer Look at How Technology Changes Company Cultures
While sitting on a panel at a recent HubSpot event, I was asked a question that made me stop and think. It was a simple, but powerful, question: "How will technology impact the future of work?" The question took me by surprise, largely because the panel's topic was company culture. However, the more I think about the question, the more I see it makes perfect sense: The proliferation of...
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Buying HR Software, From Building the Business Case to Maximizing ROI
Any business leader, regardless of function, has to be able to select and implement the right tools to accomplish their personal and organizational goals. However, buying HR technology (or "WorkTech," people tech, talent acquisition (TA) tech — whatever you want to call it) can be particularly difficult. There are many vendors, internal stakeholders, and general pitfalls you need to...
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The Consumerization of the Job Hunt: How Recruitment Marketing Automation Makes Life Easier in a Candidate's Market
Contemporary job seekers are more like consumers than they used to be. Furthermore, the vast majority of quality candidates are not actively seeking employment at any given moment, and in order to reach these folks, you need to provide personalized attention in multiple places at once. These are all significant challenges, but recruitment marketing automation (RMA) can be an incredibly...
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The Dos and Don'ts of Mobile Recruiting
Mobile recruitment is no longer a nice-to-have strategy — it's a must. Among today's job seekers, 89 percent see their mobile devices as critical to the job hunt, and 45 percent use their phones to search for jobs daily. It's clear that candidates now expect to be able to research, find, and apply to jobs from a mobile device, and that means any recruiter without a solid mobile...
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Is HR Failing to Close the Tech Skills Gap?
The apparent ubiquity of flashy work perks like communal ping-pong tables, kombucha on tap, and unlimited vacation days has many employers worried about outcompeting other organizations to attract, recruit, and retain the workers they want. However, on-site workout classes and Pizza Fridays aren't the top drivers bringing in talent. In fact, today's employees are much more interested in...
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Employees Prefer Images: Here's How to Make Your Onboarding Process More Visual
Released in June, the "Internet Trends 2019" report from technology investment firm Bond came with a clear message for the employment market: People love visuals. According to the report, the number of people sharing and consuming images and videos through online platforms like Instagram and Snapchat has climbed year over year since at least 2010. People aren't just increasingly visual...
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How Modern HR Technology Makes a Difference in Finding and Retaining Great Employees
Finding and keeping great employees is a challenge. In fact, according to McKinsey, 82 percent of business leaders don't believe their companies recruit highly talented people; among those who do believe they recruit top talent, only 7 percent believe they can retain these employees. How do you recognize which candidates in the employment market will become long-term A players? What...
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Keep the Trendy Perks — Your Employees Would Rather You Spend the Money on Tech That Works
From communication to organization, in-office comfort to customer service, advances in tech are taking our work live to new levels of efficiency. Of course, new tech can also be a disruption if you don't know how to leverage it properly. Employers would do well to study the emerging trends sweeping across workplaces in every sector. That way, they'll be better positioned to adopt new...
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As the Net Promoter Score Falls From Grace, So Does the Employee Net Promoter Score
This year has been the Net Promoter Score's (NPS) moment in the shade. The popular metric for measuring customer satisfaction got a drubbing this May from the Wall Street Journal, which noted that while corporate America may be obsessed with the NPS — often using it to determine bonuses and guide investment decisions — the metric's accuracy is "dubious." Forbes, too, chimed in with an...
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10 Effective Technologies to Make Recruiting Easier
Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers! Today's Question: What tech has helped you the most in your recruiting and talent management, and why has it been so effective? The answers below are provided by Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization of the world's most successful young entrepreneurs....
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Research Says You Might Be Scared of New Recruiting Trends and Tools
Companies thrive on innovation — not only to ensure their products and services are on the cutting edge, but also to attract top talent. Job seekers are drawn to companies that use the latest technology trends and tools because they know these employers will give them the resources they need to do their best work. Yet when it comes to recruiting technology, companies are often reluctant...
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5 Metrics That Tell You Whether Your Recruitment Marketing Strategy Works
In today's hyper-competitive job market, it is extremely difficult for a company to stand out without a strong recruitment marketing strategy. But how do you know whether your recruitment marketing campaigns are paying off? With data, of course! Data, in this case, means recruitment metrics. Metrics are the key to showing you where the ROI is, where the budget is being wasted, and...
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The Coolest Advances in Corporate Learning Might Come From the Cannabis Industry
A couple of Harvard grads kick around in finance for a few years before deciding to launch a hip new tech startup of their own. On the surface, the story of Best in Grow cofounders Andrew Duffy (CEO) and Jake Levin (COO) might sound like the story of every tech startup ever. Dig a little deeper, though, and you'll find the tale of this dispensary management software company has a lot...
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#ZohoRecruitChat Roundup: the Candidate Experience, the Rise of the Machines, and the Future of Recruiting
Yesterday, applicant tracking system Zoho Recruit sponsored a fascinating tweetchat on recruiting in the age of artificial intelligence and automation. Participants included our own Recruiter.com CEO Miles Jennings (@milesj), as well as other industry experts like Genesys Talent CEO Carla M. Tibbitts (@CarlaTibbits), CV-Library Founder and CEO Lee Biggins (@LeeBiggins), UK Recruiter...
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Gen. Z Is Challenging the Status Quo When It Comes to Pay Transparency
When millennials began to enter the labor market nearly two decades ago, they turned the corporate world upside down. With the oldest millennials now nearing 40, it's time for organizations to prepare for a new population to upend work culture once again: Generation Z. Defined by the Pew Research Center as those born between 1997 and 2012, Gen. Z-ers were raised in the age of the...
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The Big Data Curse: Is TA Tech Actually Making Recruiters' Jobs Harder?
Sometimes, the issues that plague people in talent acquisition (TA) are unavoidable and really, really hard to solve. But there's one problem — one of the most common TA challenges of all — that we brought on ourselves. In fact, talent acquisition technology created the issue in the first place. I'm talking about the ever-ballooning times to hire that most if not all TA pros...
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Automate More: How Tech Can Help HR Pros Reach Their Full Potential
HR professionals are one of a kind. Working in a fast-paced field, these pros are responsible for seeking new and innovative solutions to develop employees' skills, improve performance, and boost productivity. Amid all that, when performance issues occur, it's the role of HR to handle the situation the right way, in a timely manner and without complication. Succeeding in an HR role...
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To Map the Candidate Journey, You Have to Understand What Google Analytics Is Telling You
Everyone wants to be more data-driven, but when it comes to recruitment marketing, that isn't always as easy as it seems. Sure, when you roll out a social media advertising campaign, you can pretty easily find out how many candidates are seeing your ads and clicking your links — but what happens after that? How can you gain insight into users' behaviors once they have clicked your call...
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The No. 1 Threat to Cybersecurity? Your Employees
Hackers and malware are formidable foes, but employees are the biggest threat to your company's cybersecurity, according to a recently published study. A complacent or poorly trained employee can undermine even the strongest security protocols with a single mistake. Lost or stolen hardware, weak passwords, and other bad habits lead to more data breaches each year than cyberattacks. The...
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Technology as a Work Perk: Your Recruiters Want Better Software, Not More Happy Hours
The conversation around employee perks and benefits usually centers on the competition between big tech companies that can afford in-office slides, free meals, and weekly dolphin rides — or whatever the latest fad in employee engagement is. However, recent studies show less may actually be more when it comes to perks and benefits. Employees increasingly yearn for simple things like...
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Explaining AI: What Talent Acquisition Pros Need to Know About Machine Learning and More
With artificial intelligence (AI) progressing by leaps and bounds, there has been a lot of talk about what it all could mean for the way we work. These conversations have been especially persistent in industries like recruiting, where key processes have long been very focused on human-to-human activity. AI can offer solutions to many of the most common challenges recruiters and hiring...
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12 HR Tech Tool Recommendations From a Talent Acquisition Veteran
Jay Curry, president and founder of TalentRobot, is an experienced recruiting and HR leader who has spent a lot of time in house. Recently, he launched his own business, which has given him the chance to glimpse the inside workings of many different organizations. Curry's experience with a wide range of companies gives him unique insight into HR tech. That's why I recently caught up with...
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There's Gold in Your ATS — But Can You Mine It?
Whether you realize it or not, there's gold buried inside your applicant tracking system (ATS) or candidate relationship management (CRM) system — candidate gold. And yet, despite the enormous investments organizations are making in their recruitment and hiring processes, valuable data is too often cast aside to languish within these software tools. Highly skilled silver-medal...
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For Best Sourcing Results, Blend the Old-School Approach With the New
It can be difficult to keep up with all the new tools, technology, and trends entering the sourcing industry every day. However, rather than looking at these developments as challenges, recruiters may do well to view them as opportunities to become better, more effective professionals. Here are a few ideas to help you supplement your sourcing strategies with new tools and tech: Invest...
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Recruitment's 'Magic Window': The Power of the First 72 Hours
Recruiting is no longer a waiting game. Thanks to a healthy job market and an increasingly limited talented pool, recruiters are now racing to find, engage, and secure candidates. From the moment an application is received, recruiters are on the clock to make the first move, schedule interviews, and even make an offer. What's more, many employers are trying to get it all done within 72...
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