By now, we hope your Rolodex is collecting dust in a box somewhere. Old and new school recruiters may be at a constant battle over cold-calling, social recruiting, video interviewing, and mass messaging, but there are timeless sourcing practices keeping all talent pros from finding and hiring their ideal candidates.
Applicant tracking systems (ATS) were originally designed in the late 1990's to automate the application for job seekers and to track applicants for employers. more
Time is zipping by. A new year is already upon us. Now that 2014 is coming to a close, let's take a final look back at the top content based on traffic published on the Gild blog, as well as the ebooks we released during year.
Note: This post was adapted from a few posts I wrote on Quora ( What should you know before starting your own third party engineering recruiting company? and Is it easy to become a technical recruiter from a software engineer background?). A version of it also recently appeared in Forbes.
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Head of Talent Mat Caldwell equates building a recruiting process to Building An Airplane in Flight. You have to make improvements as you go, particularly when you are scaling at the rapid pace of his company, Instacart. A year ago, Instacart had 18 employees and a single recruiter.
I'm a data alchemist at Lever, which means I use principles of data science and design to create value from data. Hiring is a complicated process, involving a lot of people doing a lot of things. I apply my passion...Read More Your hiring activity generates a lot of data.
Workshape is a talent matching service for Startups. We're a two sided marketplace where Engineers and Startups discover each other through being matched on their 'Workshapes' - visual representations of work, measured by time distribution across universal software engineering tasks.
The average job description is currently a mishmash of an older version of the original specification, some amendments from an enthusiastic new hiring manager and some sexier phrases stolen from various other company's career pages.
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