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Cultivating Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Improving diversity and inclusion in the workplace is hard work for business leaders. But, having grown a team that recently hit a 50:50 gender ratio (an uncommon feat these days, especially in Silicon Valley), we can let everyone in on a secret: It’s not rocket science, either. “[Diversity, equity, and inclusion] is everyone’s responsibility, not just HR,”…
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Lever Launches Onboarding Partnership with Sapling
Finding the best talent is key to any successful organization — but it doesn’t stop at hiring. It’s just as important to support new hires, empowering them to be as productive and successful as possible in their new roles at your company. A common pain in many high-growth businesses occurs when the investment in candidate…
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7 Chats Recruiting Must Initiate with Hiring Managers
If you’re a recruiter, chances are you’ve brought your hiring managers some pretty terrible candidate fits at one point or another. Knowing how deeply they care about building the right team, your ultimate goal is to help them find the best people. Needless to say, it’s beyond devastating when the two of you don’t see…
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Getting the Most Out of Interview Evaluation Forms
An interview evaluation form (a.k.a. candidate evaluation form) helps all interviewers provide detailed and structured feedback following conversations with job seekers. This standardized, structured form of interview feedback ensures each prospect with whom your hiring team engages for a given role are evaluated on the same exact criteria so you can make apples-to-apples comparisons. This,…
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Using Interview Feedback to Drive Recruiting Success
Documenting interview feedback from your internal hiring team members — ideally, in an applicant tracking system (ATS) used by all recruiters and hiring managers — is a crucial element of the recruitment process. And one that can help boost your interview performance. Simply put, your interview panelists’ evaluations help identify each candidate’s strengths and weaknesses…
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Improving the Hiring Manager Experience: A Guide
Hiring manager collaboration — or lack thereof — with writing job descriptions, finding top talent, engaging qualified candidates, and making decisions about who to advance in the recruitment process is often the difference between hiring the right people versus letting premier prospects slip through the cracks (or not finding them at all). Unfortunately, a hiring…
