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SmartRecruiters’ Company Update
Dear Customers, Prospective Customers, Partners, and Smartians, I started SmartRecruiters 12 years ago with the hope and the dream to build a company that makes it easy for organizations to hire great people and for great people to get hired. Today, I can assure you that what we have built has exceeded my wildest expectations. SmartRecruiters is consistently voted a leader in talent acquisition software, with hundreds of employees (Smartians) supporting more than 1,000 customers.
Building Intelligent Career Sites with SmartRecruiters Attrax
In today’s tight labor market, hiring has become a top issue for HR leaders and even CEOs. Career sites are a crucial tool in the fight for talent. Traditional career sites used to be static web pages with a nice video and job listings, but that’s not good enough these days. I’ve seen countless examples of companies spending lots of money advertising open positions to find great candidates, but falling short when candidates visit career pages that are hard to navigate and boring.
Hire externally or promote internally? In a labor shortage, the answer is clear
It’s no secret that for many job roles, there’s an acute shortage of talent, right alongside high unemployment. Most companies across the US, Canada, Europe, parts of Asia, and even China have struggled against hiring shortfalls in specific sectors. And it’s not just front-line workers, nor is it limited to a Great Resignation of disaffected millennials—this year, up and down the talent market, overall demand exceeds supply across all demographics and sectors.
The key to hiring success post-pandemic
Article by: Jerome Ternynck, Founder & CEO - SmartRecruiters | Published: 12 September 2021 Jerome Ternynck, Founder & CEO - SmartRecruiters 10 September 2021 The pandemic changed how talent acquisition works forever – employers and workers across the globe dramatically shifted their expectations around what work means, and what makes work meaningful. As a result, remote recruitment has become the industry standard in just over a year.
Let’s Get Smartr
Dear SmartRecruiters Community, If we looked up roller coaster in the dictionary, the last 18 months in talent acquisition would be a fitting definition — From dealing with layoffs at the onset of the pandemic to keeping up with explosive growth for the great rehire. It’s not lost on me the struggles experienced by other industries and professions. But talent acquisition is what we live and breathe, and this community has seen a ton of change in a short period of time.
11 Million Hires, $1.5 Billion Valuation, And Delivering Hiring Success Around The World - A Letter From SmartRecruiters’ CEO, Jerome Ternynck
When I founded SmartRecruiters, the vision was simple: connect people to jobs at scale by making hiring easier. Hiring is a fragmented, opaque process undermined by outdated technology that turns off candidates and hiring managers. But it doesn’t have to be. I imagined a world where finding great candidates is easy, it’s easy for people to show interest in jobs, it’s easy for hiring teams to collaborate, and vendors are just a click away. And then we developed SmartRecruiters.
$50M to Deliver Hiring Success
Today we announced the closing of $50M Series D financing with two of the world’s best software investors, Insight and Mayfield, effectively doubling down on SmartRecruiters! That brought me right back to the moment 8 years ago when I founded SmartRecruiters on a very personal mission to Connect People to Jobs at Scale. What we ended up building is a modern Talent Acquisition Suite (named a leader by IDC for all company sizes) that safely replaces the legacy ATS.
GDPR. Let’s Remember Why We’re Doing This
If you hadn’t already had a good reason to be aware of the European Union’s long-time-coming General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), the term may have crossed your radar as late last week, after a flurry of emails from what seemed like every online service you’ve ever used.
The Future of Work is Hiring Success
SmartRecruiters’ Founder and CEO on where the current revolution in recruitment will take us. Hiring managers, recruiters, executives: Close your eyes. Relax. Think about the last time you hired someone amazing. Find a name. Breathe. Think about what you were able to achieve together. Feels good, right? What you are experiencing is called Hiring Success. When you think about it, hiring is success. Who you hire defines everything: your ability to sell, to service, to innovate, to win or lose.
The future of recruiting is (obviously) AI
The world of sci-fi books and movies has long loved to speculate about what forms artificial intelligence will take in our future lives.
Recruiters Unite for Diversity and Inclusion
The recent development in American politics is painful to watch. As an immigrant Founder I feel threatened. Do I belong here? What if the French are next? As a proud European, I feel scared. We already know the consequences of nationalism, and how hard we worked to overcome our murderous instincts. But as a Recruiter, I feel energized because the best place to fight against discrimination is in the hiring process.
The Only 3 Things That Matter if You Want to Be an Entrepreneur
The Entrepreneur Insiders network is an online community where the most thoughtful and influential people in America’s startup scene contribute answers to timely questions about entrepreneurship and careers. Today’s answer to the question, “What qualities make an amazing entrepreneur?” is written by Jerome Ternynck, founder and CEO of SmartRecruiters. Entrepreneurs are born, not made. If you have an entrepreneurial mindset, you will know it.
Money, Ideas, and People
Today we announced a $30m Series C financing round led by Insight Partners. This round follows two years of spectacular growth (700 new customers in 24 months) and validates SmartRecruiters as the leading candidate to disrupt the $3 billion ATS market, particularly in the enterprise segment. For me, it is another important milestone towards the realization of a simple vision. We hear most CEOs claim that people are their number 1 asset. Well, turns out they are right.
What a Difference a Year Makes
Today is a big day for SmartRecruiters. We’re returning to the world’s largest HR technology show in a big way after a year of transformative innovation and explosive growth. You can read all about it in the press release we’ve just put out from the HR Tech show in Las Vegas. We’ve been working on our Hiring Success vision for a while, in part to help companies succeed in today’s talent economy and in part to undo the errors of the past.
LinkedIn Referrals + SmartRecruiters
We at SmartRecruiters have always been the first talent acquisition platform to deliver the deepest level of integration with LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions products, including a seamless LinkedIn Apply process, one-click LinkedIn job posting, support for managed LinkedIn contracts and the best LinkedIn Recruiter integration in the market. About that last, it’s bi-directional and real time.
The Rise of the Recruitment Marketplace
5 Reasons to centralize recruitment services and vendors in one place Talent acquisition professionals typically wrestle with an unwieldy variety of systems in their war for talent. Besides core recruitment systems (often an old-fashioned ATS), they deal with job boards, video interview tools, background check vendors and candidate assessments. Using this tech menagerie is inconvenient, as they aren’t easily integrated to the ATS, all of which translates into extra clicks and duplicate data entry.
Slay The Integration Dragon
Integration to HR systems has traditionally been costly and time consuming, requiring months of prep and scoping, mapping of repetitive fields, setting up testing servers, writing scripts, designing error handling, and paying ridiculously high consulting and maintenance fees. And that's just the start of it. Nonetheless, it's a necessity. Especially as companies get larger, the amount of manual effort required to transfer data between systems can be astronomical.
Work as One to Hire Many
Hiring the right people is hard and who we hire has an enormous impact on the ultimate success or failure of a business. So why would you put that kind of pressure on your talent acquisition team? You shouldn't. Recruiting needs to be a company wide activity. Your existing employees are your best resources for finding and retaining the right people for several reasons: Your employees are naturally connected to 100s if not 1000s of unique people.
A PlayBook for Running Recruiting Like Sales & Marketing
There's a funny thing about corporate recruiting in big companies. Everyone knows that recruiting is the most strategic part of HR but heads of corporate talent acquisition struggle to gain power over the technology they use to run it.
4 Ways the Best Recruiters are Like Salespeople
When you think of a salesperson, you might think of a relentless professional who persuade others to buy things they don't need. But salespeople are more than that. Stereotypes aside, salespeople use effective strategies to increase business. Recruiters are like salespeople. Both need to find new opportunities, build relationships, and close deals.
7 Steps to Effective Content Marketing for Recruiting
In my last column, I shared 5 Ways to Recruit Like a Marketer and highlighted content marketing as a key deliverable. We know research shows that 69% of candidates wouldn't accept a job with an organization with a bad reputation and as employers are getting more creative with their hiring strategies, content marketing will play a primary role in building brand awareness.
5 Ways to Recruit Like a Marketer
The job market is improving, and professionals are taking advantage of new opportunities. About 75 percent of working professionals surveyed by LinkedIn in 2014 would consider switching jobs if the right one came along. In this new hiring environment, job seekers can afford to be choosy about their employer. As a result, recruiting is shifting, and employers need to focus on appealing to job seekers during the hiring process. Instead of just posting a job, you need to market and sell that job.
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How to Recruit When the Competition Is Stiff
In recruiting there are winners and losers. It's a zero sum game. Top candidates are recruited by multiple companies and quickly make decisions about where to go. One company will win the best candidate and the rest will lose. Multiply that effort times the number of people you hire each year and you quickly realize you're in a fierce competition.
9 Job Search Trends Every Employer Needs To Know
9 Job Search Trends Every Employer Needs To Know Staying ahead of these and other job search trends is a must. By Jerome Ternynck, Founder and CEO, SmartRecruiters@JeromeTernynck Getty Images The competition for talent continues to heat up. According to Manpower's 2014 Talent Shortage Survey, 40% of US employers experience difficulty filling jobs.
The Past, Present, & Future of Mobile Recruiting
In my last column I provided 7 tips for mobile recruiting. It's obvious that we use our phones for everything from online shopping to driving directions, our mobile devices are there for us. It's replaced our camera, camcorder, alarm clock and more. The popularity and convenience of smartphones makes them a powerful tool for recruiting too. Job seekers are attached to their phones and other devices, and use them in their search for new positions.
TechHire Shows Strong Potential For Small Businesses, Startups And Local Communities – TechCrunch
Jerome Ternynck Contributor Editor’s note: Jerome Ternynck is the CEO and founder of SmartRecruiters. Earlier this month, President Barack Obama announced the $100 million TechHire initiative, a new campaign to work with communities to get more Americans rapidly trained for well-paying technology jobs – not just in Silicon Valley but across the country.
7 Tips for Mobile Recruiting
7 Tips for Mobile Recruiting Learn how to bring in a new age of applicants. By Jerome Ternynck, Founder and CEO, SmartRecruiters@JeromeTernynck Getty Images Mobile recruiting was introduced in 2007 and as it continues to rapidly evolve, job seeker behaviors are changing quickly too. It might surprise most recruiting leaders that 90 percent of job seekers now utilize mobile devices when looking for a new opportunity.
How to Build a Successful Referral Culture
Last month, I shared 3 ways to optimize your employee referral program. We know that employee referrals are powerful--they bring in quality talent, reduce time to hire, and help ease the burden of recruiters. In a 2014 CareerXroads survey, referrals were the top source for hiring and companies said they filled 20 percent of their openings through employee referrals. After establishing a referral program, the next step is to incorporate referrals into the company culture.
5 Tips to Improve the Candidate Experience
As attracting and engaging talent continues to become more competitive, how recruiters and hiring teams design and deliver the candidate experience is finally getting the attention it deserves. The Talent Board, which runs the Candidate Experience Awards, published Candidate Experience 2014 and shared insights collected from nearly 95,000 candidates who applied to approximately 140 companies.
What You Can Learn from Slack's 'Wall of Love'
A company's corporate career site provides a great opportunity to showcase the true value proposition of an employer and can provide compelling reasons for both active and passive candidates to learn more and eventually express an interest in working for the company. Words, pictures, tweets and videos all play a role in positioning your organization as a leading employer.
WARNING: Your Current #Hiring Process is Outdated
In my last Inc column, I predicted that 2015 would be an exciting year for the U.S. job market and offered five resolutions for better hiring in the new year. Focusing on these ways to improve your hiring is a great start. But it’s also important to look at your overall hiring process and refine how you recruit and hire your workforce. In my last Inc column, I predicted that 2015 would be an exciting year for the U.S. job market and offered five resolutions for better hiring in the new year.
3 Ways to Optimize Your Employee Referral Program
For decades, employee referral programs have been known to outperform other hiring sources. The benefits include candidates who know more about your culture and have a higher likelihood to succeed (new hire success), shorter hiring times and decreased recruiting costs. What I've been most surprised at when talking to other executives and recruiting leaders is that these same companies also invest less in their referral program than other hiring sources that produce mediocre results.
7 High-Impact Approaches for Employee Development
As the CEO of a company that delivers technology focused on hiring success, I know far too well the importance of recruiting (and retaining) the best employees. A few months ago, I wrote about hiring for the long haul and 6 tips to find candidates who will stay. Once you've closed and successfully on-boarded your new employee, it's time to focus on their contributions, growth and development.
WARNING: Why Your Current Hiring Process is Outdated
In my last column, I predicted that 2015 would be an exciting year for the U.S. job market and offered five resolutions for better hiring in the new year. Focusing on these ways to improve your hiring is a great start. But it's also important to look at your overall hiring process and refine how you recruit and hire your workforce. What's So Wrong With How You Hire? Here's a question: Would you let the technology you use to run your business get outdated?
Stop Tracking Applicants and Join the Hiring Success Movement
For far too long recruiting technology has not been aligned with hiring success and applicant tracking systems have been designed to do just that – track applicants. As a result, technology providers of these solutions have failed miserably in help companies engage and hire the best talent in a meaningful way. For far too long recruiting technology has not been aligned with hiring success and applicant tracking systems have been designed to do just that – track applicants.
5 Counterintuitive Ways to Minimize the Risks of Hiring
This column originally published on Inc.com. There is no quick test that guarantees the candidate in front of you will be a good or bad hire. A lot can change from the point of the interview to the point of employment. Surprises can and do crop up throughout the course of your working relationship–for better and for worse. I’ve found that the No. 1 way to minimize the risks of hiring is something that sounds counterintuitive at first: let your employees do it.
5 New Year's Resolutions For Better Hiring and Recruiting
2015 is poised to be the most exciting year for the U.S. job market in quite some time. With the unemployment rate is at its lowest point since 2008, the economy is emerging from a rough recession period and showing real signs of a turnaround. The U.S. added nearly 2.7 million jobs in 2014--the most in fifteen years. Companies are bolstering their hiring efforts, and economists are optimistic this trend will continue in 2015.
5 (Safe) Ways to Let Your Employees Do the Hiring
There is no quick test that guarantees the candidate in front of you will be a good or bad hire. A lot can change from the point of the interview to the point of employment. Surprises can and do crop up throughout the course of your working relationship--for better and for worse. I've found that the No. 1 way to minimize the risks of hiring is something that sounds counterintuitive at first: let your employees do it.
How Unlimited PTO Will Help You Recruit & Retain the Best Team
Trust your employees when it comes to time off. The results could build a better company for you. This column originally appeared on Inc. Here are the 5 reasons CEOs should offer unlimited vacation in 2015. As a CEO, do the words “unlimited vacation” cause cold sweats and an overwhelming urge to hide all your employees’ passports? If so, you aren’t alone–most CEOs have some discomfort around the concept of unlimited vacation, which explains why only 1 percent of U.S. companies offer this program.
Why Winning in Business Means Treating Employees Like Adults
As executives, business owners and hiring managers, we spend countless hours, budget and brainpower securing responsible and passionate employees who can be trusted to help us achieve our business goals. Why then is it that once the employee starts, that trust often goes out the window and micro-managing begins?
How To Be The Company Everyone Wants to Work For
Here are the 5 ways to turn your company into a magnet for great candidates. This column originally appeared on Inc. Here are the 5 ways to turn your company into a magnet for great candidates. There’s a reason why so many people want to work for the Apples and Facebooks of the world, and it’s not just the salary or perks: these companies have fantastic employer brands.
5 Reasons CEOs Should Offer Unlimited Vacation in 2015
As a CEO, do the words "unlimited vacation" cause cold sweats and an overwhelming urge to hide all your employees' passports? If so, you aren't alone--most CEOs have some discomfort around the concept of unlimited vacation, which explains why only 1 percent of U.S. companies offer this program. Among these 1-percenters is Netflix, an unlimited-vacation pioneer and the company that inspired Richard Branson to recently announce a similar policy for Virgin.
7 Tips For Job Seekers That Hiring Managers Secretly Want You To Know
By Jerome Ternynck 3 minute Read As a job candidate, you’ve heard all the insider tips about how to impress hiring managers. Firm handshake? Check. Good eye contact? Check. Cut the “likes” and “ums” from your speech? Check. Yet you might still be struggling to gain an edge in the job market and find the position that suits your needs. From responsibilities to salary, location, work environment, company culture, mission, and client base, there are a lot of elements to get right.
5 Ways to Turn Your Company into a Magnet for Great Candidates
There's a reason why so many people want to work for the Apples and Facebooks of the world, and it's not just the salary or perks: these companies have fantastic employer brands. The employer brand, the public face of a company's internal culture, is becoming a major factor in whether or not great talent will choose to get on board for two reasons. First, the new workforce generation is looking for more than a big paycheck when deciding which job to take.
How to Get Candidates to Drop Their Job Interview Facade
This column originally appeared on Inc.com. Here are the 5 Questions to Turn Your Job Interview Into a Job Conversation. Several years ago, I was recruiting a candidate from a well-known software company. He was strongly recommended by a contact of mine, and I was excited to hear details about his contributions to the company’s success.
These 5 Questions Will Turn Your Job Interview Into a Job Conversation
Several years ago, I was recruiting a candidate from a well-known software company. He was strongly recommended by a contact of mine, and I was excited to hear details about his contributions to the company's success.
Don't Be Afraid to Grill Hiring Managers. Chances Are, They're Hoping You Will.
This column originally appeared on Inc.com. Here are the 8 questions every candidate should ask during job interviews. Photo Credit flickr David Silverman. Earlier this month, I was interviewing a prospective designer for my company. The candidate asked, “Who does wireframing for your app, the product team or design team?” A simple question. But it kicked off a great discussion about our processes and how he could contribute to the team.
8 Questions Every Candidate Should Ask During Job Interviews
Earlier this month, I was interviewing a prospective designer for my company. The candidate asked, "Who does wireframing for your app, the product team or the design team?" A simple question. But it kicked off a great discussion about our processes and how he could contribute to the team. I remember thinking, "Hey, we are already working together..." This candidate is now an employee and a good fit for our company.
Hire for the Long Haul: 6 Tips to Find Candidates Who Will Stay
One of my biggest hiring rules of thumb is to make sure the job candidate knows that I'm a candidate as much as he or she is a candidate. I only hire the best people, and since they are the best, they have a lot of options too. By being humble and treating the candidate as an equal, you can actually create better long-term employment relationships.
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