Data-Driven Recruiting

How to Centralize Talent Acquisition Technology

It’s no secret — enterprise companies continue to find it challenge to hire enough qualified candidates. With more than 8 million available jobs, talent teams are feeling the pressure to hire as quickly as possible despite the challenges. A considerable number of businesses are looking to shift their recruiting strategies to impact their hiring process.…

Decoding Active and Passive Candidates Today

New data from Employ reveals that one in three workers would feel comfortable quitting their current job without having another role lined up. According to a survey of more than 1,500 U.S. workers conducted by Employ in April 2024, candidates are feeling confident in the current labor market. And despite high levels of job satisfaction,…

What’s Most Important to Job Seekers Today?

The job market continues to defy expectations. Companies have added new jobs at a rapid pace, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting more than 800,000 new jobs added in Q1 2024 alone. To understand the perspectives of job seekers in this complex market, Employ conducted its annual survey of U.S. workers, exploring job satisfaction,…

How to Improve Your Talent Acquisition Strategy: 10 Ideas

Your organization’s definition of an effective talent acquisition strategy likely differs from other large-scale enterprises because of your unique goals, challenges, complexities, and hiring needs. Yet every business requires a solid approach to recruiting and hiring. And there are tried-and-true recruitment approaches that leading enterprises use to grow and scale their companies. This guide examines…

How to Make Recruiting Efficiency a Priority in Your Enterprise

Recruiting is the backbone of every successful organization, but finding quality candidates in a timely manner and increasing recruiting efficiency can feel like an uphill battle for talent acquisition professionals today.  The competition for top talent is fierce, and hiring the wrong person can be costly. As the market becomes more competitive, businesses need to…

How Forward-Thinking Talent Pros Optimize Recruiting Strategies

Talent scarcity is an ongoing challenge for companies across multiple sectors. With the current economic landscape and the global pandemic creating lasting disruptions to the job market, many companies are experiencing an uphill battle in hiring top talent. Competition for skilled workers continues, making it increasingly difficult for employers to attract qualified candidates. But optimizing your…

15 Recruiting KPIs to Assign to Your Talent Acquisition Team

Your talent acquisition team, like many others at enterprises worldwide, undoubtedly tracks an array of critical recruitment metrics that provide insight into each stage of the recruitment funnel. But, if your TA leader doesn’t assign specific key performance indicators (KPIs) tied to each metric — both at the individual recruiter level and for the overall…

Recruiting Challenges and Opportunities in Today’s Labor Market

An era of uncertainty has made its way into recruiting. Many talent practitioners are asking themselves, “What in the world is going on?” The truth is, the new normal is here to stay. And volatility is the name of the game. Unemployment remains low, while wages, inflation, and interest rates remain high. The number of…

Recruiting Funnel Metrics: Get a Handle in an Unsteady Market

Data-driven analysis and decision making is even more important today in talent acquisition than it was just a few years ago. And understanding some of the most important benchmarks can help your talent team recognize how it stacks up compared to other organizations of a similar size and sector. For recruiting professionals and HR decision…

Using a Recruitment Dashboard to Centralize Your TA Data

Organizing all your talent acquisition team’s data tied to sourcing, nurturing, interviewing, candidate experience, and diversity hiring (among a number of other critical elements of your overall TA efforts) in a unified recruitment dashboard in a centralized ATS is a game-changer. Your enterprise recruiting org no longer has to go back and forth between disconnected…