Data-Driven Recruiting

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…

8 Talent Acquisition Strategies to Inspire Your TA Team

Your enterprise’s definition of “effective” talent acquisition strategies likely differs from other large-scale orgs. The truth, though, is all big businesses run mostly the same recruiting and hiring playbook. The only real differences between your talent acquisition processes and those of other companies is your company’s unique business model, goals, and hiring needs. That said,…

3 Ways to Get Maximum Results from Data-Driven Recruiting

Within organizations large and small, the recruiting function has a huge opportunity to become more agile using data-driven insights, especially in light of the unsteady talent landscape. As the talent landscape continues to evolve and challenges arise, recruiting teams have had to get even more nimble and learn how to analyze talent data in real-time…

Reducing Time to Hire: A Collaborative Effort

One of the most vital recruiting metrics you must track and improve is the time to hire metric. (Not to be confused with the average time to fill.) It’s a data point that, when continually addressed (read: sped up), can lead to greater conversions of qualified candidates — and happier hiring managers. Improving time to…

Talent Analytics: The Key to Unlock Greater TA Success

The demand for skilled professionals continues to surge among employers worldwide today. The harsh reality is businesses that wish to thrive amidst this competition must invest in their people — and that means taking full advantage of their (likely robust) candidate data sets. It’s no longer enough to simply rely on gut instinct or basic…