Candidate Experience

Recruitment vs. Talent Acquisition: What Is the Difference?

Many people think that recruitment and talent acquisition are synonymous, but companies focused on smart talent acquisition know there’s a crucial difference between the two.  Recruitment and talent acquisition occur at different times — recruitment strategies focus on quick fixes, while talent acquisition focuses on developing a longer-term approach. Both approaches are important to consider,…

How to Provide a Great Candidate Experience Every Time

Providing a great candidate experience is more important than ever for employers. Put plainly: As candidate expectations continue to shift, enterprise talent teams are working hard to ensure they provide a consistently top-tier candidate experience by abiding by best practices followed by leading employers today. Improving the candidate experience: 5 expert tips Every organization wants to…

Candidate Expectations You Need to Know in 2024

As the labor market and record-low unemployment rates keep recruiters on their toes, the focus on the candidate experience continues. The candidate experience includes all the feelings, impressions, interactions, and activities a job seeker encounters along their candidate journey It’s how a candidate feels they’ve been treated throughout the recruitment process and how that treatment…

12 Ways to Amplify Your Hiring Strategy This Year

Just as your business leadership adjusts the workforce plan for your organization quarterly, you and your talent acquisition team must modify your hiring strategy just as often (if not more so) to ensure you source, nurture, and convert the right talent for your company. From better engaging remote candidates to writing highly optimized job descriptions,…

What Job Seekers Want from Employers Today

When it comes to priorities for HR leaders and recruiters today and in the coming years, improving the quality of candidates, increasing the speed of hiring, and getting more applicants for each open role ranks highest, according to recent Employ data. These priorities, however, are contingent upon recognizing what job seekers want in the midst…

Here’s Why Ghosting Candidates Is So Spooky

It’s a frightening recruiting environment out there. Employers are still seeing significant challenges in finding qualified candidates in today’s tight labor market. The difficult hiring landscape has emphasized the importance of strong hiring programs and even stronger hiring teams. No matter the size of the company, employers are feeling the squeeze to quickly find and…

How to Solve Your Candidate Conversion Problem

This article on candidate conversion was originally published in October 2021. It was republished with updated data and trends in October 2022. You keep hearing about record job openings as the country heads back to work. Yet here you are, sitting at your desk, looking at your ATS and wondering why it isn’t overflowing with…

Why Leaders Should Care About Candidate, Recruiter, and Hiring Manager Experiences

As a leader in your organization, you know that recruiting teams are facing challenges in finding and engaging quality talent. And you know that the ability to attract talent is a strategic imperative for your business. But ensuring that all stakeholders within recruiting have a positive experience may be new to you. It’s called the…

The Keys to Providing a Positive Candidate Experience

Ensuring your hiring team collectively provides a positive candidate experience to each and every individual you reach out to and speak with for open roles is one of the most critical areas of your company’s recruitment strategy today. In short, if it was evident before reading this guide, improving your candidate experience efforts regularly should…