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Apr 14, 2024 | 
loublaser.substack.com | Lou Blaser |Lee Prescott |Dawna Kreis
My dear reader friend, I asked a couple of friends the other day, “If you had the choice, would you rather take meds for life or change your lifestyle to cure an ailment?”The answer from both? Meds for life. 🫢I get it. Not only is it a tall order to give up the things we enjoy. It’s hard to change a lifetime of habits that we’ve perfected to suit the person we are today.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
smartrecruiters.com | Lee Prescott
Just how important is a great career site for attracting and engaging talent? Very important, it turns out. According to joint research with the Talent Board and SmarrtRecuriters, career sites are the number one recruiting technology survey respondents deployed to attract and engage candidates with specialized skill sets. With high competition for skilled talent, a career site has to be better than good—it has to be amazing.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
smartrecruiters.com | Lee Prescott
At many organizations, talent acquisition has finally reached its potential as a strategic function. At the beginning of 2023, 70% of global talent acquisition (TA) professionals told LinkedIn their teams could claim a seat at the proverbial table. “TA is more of a strategic enabler now than it ever has been,” said Ben Handyside, Director of Talent Acquisition, EMEA, at Colliers, “I think it should be at the table, in boardrooms, and with senior leaders.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
smartrecruiters.com | Lee Prescott
Don’t you wish keeping up with change was easy? As if your recruiting teams knew exactly how to adapt their processes in response to the market and your technology automatically adjusted to fit? Unfortunately, there’s no silver bullet for recruiting perfection when we don’t know what’s coming next in the economy, technology, or workplace trends.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
smartrecruiters.com | Lee Prescott
Personalized experiences are memorable. Think of the last time you were greeted at a hotel by name, or when a retail associate took the time to understand your needs and preferences. While a candidate experience is not quite the same as a customer experience, candidates are consumers, too. Personalization helps them build affinity for your employer brand and encourages them to move forward in the hiring process.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
rfr.bz | Lee Prescott
Personalized experiences are memorable. Think of the last time you were greeted at a hotel by name, or when a retail associate took the time to understand your needs and preferences. While a candidate experience is not quite the same as a customer experience, candidates are consumers, too. Personalization helps them build affinity for your employer brand and encourages them to move forward in the hiring process.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
smartrecruiters.com | Lee Prescott
Remember the Before Times? Not just before the pandemic, but before the smartphone, before streaming television, and before email, depending on your age. Any adult alive today has lived through seismic shifts in technology that create new behaviors. It’s also happened in talent acquisition. Many SmartRecruiters employees have worked at companies that used the “before” applicant tracking systems.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
smartrecruiters.com | Lee Prescott
Usability is an often overlooked feature in HR systems. Systems built more than 20 years ago were born from a mindset that having the technology to manage recruitment activities was better than working on paper, and it was—if you could learn how to navigate complex hierarchies and onerous drop-down lists. Over the last decades, the practice of user experience (UX) design has transformed systems used by consumers, frontline workers, and even government employees.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
smartrecruiters.com | Lee Prescott
We live in an experience-driven world. Companies spend significant time and resources to improve the customer experience, employee experience, and product user experience. In recruiting, it’s all about the candidate experience. As the front door to a deep relationship with your organization, improving the candidate’s experience is an ongoing challenge in the face of evolving candidate expectations and recruitment technology.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
smartrecruiters.com | Lee Prescott
Companies that engage in high-volume hiring know that its unique needs require different processes for moving large numbers of candidates from application to hire. Companies often run into three roadblocks: Candidate drop-off: How do they keep interested candidates engaged so that they convert into applicants, and how do they keep applicants engaged as the top ones are converted to hires?
