Automated job matching and recommendation: The path to efficient, fast, and cost-effective candidate sourcing
Modern recruiters face a monumental challenge – finding and hiring top talent in a competitive labour market. 63% of companies interviewed by HR.com in 2021 stated that their top barrier to talent acquisition success was the inability to find talent that matches their job requirements. In traditional recruitment processes, recruiters source candidates each time a […]
Automated candidate reference checks – The key to achieving accurate hiring
Reference checks are a means for recruiters to better understand a candidate through their peers’ perspectives. Recruiters can learn about their candidates’ strengths, weaknesses, conduct, and previous responsibilities. Speaking with references allows recruiters to verify claims candidates make in their resumes. This is critical as survey findings from Checkster, a reference checking company, show that […]
Why diversity, inclusion and equity matter in the workplace
“A diverse mix of voices leads to better discussions, decisions, and outcomes for everyone.” — Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer, Alphabet Diversity and inclusion in the workplace are critical, from staff productivity and engagement to profitability. In fact, McKinsey’s most recent Diversity Matters report highlights that companies in the top quartile of ethnic diversity outperformed […]
Why you need a data-driven recruitment process in a candidate-short market?
In today’s recruitment landscape, recruiters and HR professionals are challenged with finding top talent in a candidate-short market. Recruitment difficulties are on the rise across almost all global markets, and savvy recruiters are turning to data to respond to the challenge. What can your existing data do for you? Your data is a veritable minefield. […]
Challenges faced by TA teams in meeting the market need for CX
The last decade has witnessed many profound changes in the HR world. Technology has been the driving force behind this transformation. The global pandemic has truly revolutionized where and how work is done. This also brings long new challenges for talent acquisition teams. Let’s take a look at some of the common challenges that TA […]
Talent acquisition marketplace trends
Through the day-to-day work supporting clients and candidates, we see how employers and HR personnel are adapting and evolving their recruitment approach to suit the current candidate-driven market. Here are some of the emerging trends and recruitment actions becoming a top priority as employers look to compete and stand out. 1. Agile Recruitment Processes in […]
Exploring end-to-end candidate experience
Candidate Experience (CX) is best described as “every point of contact a candidate has or makes with a company during the recruitment process.” It can be thought of in terms of seven components – Job Search, Job Application, Communication, Feedback, Interview, Onboarding, & Analysis. All these aspects collectively define and determine CX which ultimately determines […]
Use cases for intelligent automation in recruiting
In today’s challenging recruitment landscape, recruiters and HR teams are looking for ways to attract the best talent, identify the right hires, and gain a competitive advantage. The answer lies in using intelligent automation (IA) to increase hiring speed and accuracy while delivering a more engaging candidate experience for forward-thinking organizations. What is intelligent automation? […]
What your hiring process says about you
According to Career Builder, 78% of your candidates consider the candidate experience to reflect how you value your people. That’s 4 out of 5 people who equate candidate experience with your organization’s values, culture, and working environment. This statistic should have HR teams across the globe thinking about what their hiring process says about their […]
How to set up monitoring on your AWS SES account?
The business context At impress.ai, we use AWS’s SES (Simple Email Service) to send out all our transaction emails from our platform. We make use of the boto3 API for this which we’ve got working rather nicely. One of the systems AWS has in place to keep bounces and complaints in check is that they […]