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A simple guide with quick and easy tips to make sure you’re hiring the best people for your team.

Quick! You need to recruit a lot of people for your growing organization. But hiring more recruiters to hire more people is a catch-22. Use these 3 easy tips to expand your capacity.

Making a difference in diversity requires embracing biases in recruiting. These 5 tips will help overcome gut instincts with consistent and scientific assessment.

When well-written, the Equal Opportunity Employer statement has the potential to attract diverse job applicants that create better teams. Learn how to craft a stellar one and what to avoid here.

New team member starting soon? Get actionable onboarding best practices from an expert. Onboarding is an opportunity you don't want to waste — prep for your new hire's arrival with these tips.

New team member starting soon? Get actionable onboarding best practices from an expert. Onboarding is an opportunity you don't want to waste — prep for your new hire's arrival with these tips.

Lynn Carter (Confluent) and Jackie Velasquez-Ross (InVision) share their strategies to deliver the insights and experience managers and candidates need to recruit without ever meeting in-person.

Running structured 30-60-90 day new hire check-ins maximizes speed-to-productivity and long-term retention. Talent leaders from Talkdesk, Gusto, and Human Interest share their tips.

Use these behavioral interview questions and answers in your next interview to help you make the best hiring decision.

While most recruiting solutions focus on quantity and filling the top of funnel, increasing quality of hire and middle of funnel conversions lead to better return on investment. Learn why.

In this article, you'll learn more about the Caliper test questions, what the answers aim to reveal, and some expectations vs. reality when it comes to using personality tests for hiring.

Whether you’re interviewing a new project manager or a frontline lead, a competency-based interview can help you determine the best choice for your team.

Learn the cost of employee turnover at your company. Know the hidden costs of losing employees and proven ways to increase retention so you can keep your people happy.

Do you know the four main factors that affect the cost of hiring an employee? We'll share the most strategic ways you can maximize ROI when it comes to finding your next hire.

Positioning an offer to candidate is more than about money, it's about aligning it with their whole self. Learn how to craft a closing strategy, and use reference data as a secret weapon.

These 5 parts of a DEI-focused recruiting strategy will show you how embracing bias and building processes can overcome gut instincts with disciplined criteria and assessments.

Evaluating your candidates fairly and consistently against success profiles will reduce bias

What gets measured gets managed. Quality-of-hire is a critical piece of your recruiting strategy.

Actively source from historically excluded communities, don’t rely on inbound

These 5 parts of a DEI-focused recruiting strategy will show you how embracing bias and building processes can overcome gut instincts with disciplined criteria and assessments.

Learn what acts of discrimination in the workplace are, the ways they can affect work and your employees, and how you as a leader can stop them.

By focusing on improving your employee retention rate, you can boost your company’s morale and your bottom line. Read on for 8 actionable strategies you can use today to keep employees longer.

By seeing how far we've come in closing gender gaps, it can continue to motivate more progress. But when it comes to gender inequality in the workplace, there is still a long way to go.

Take your engineering hiring process from average to amazing with tips from a hiring manager who created innovative systems to find high-performing engineers while maintaining team culture.

I closed one of our most senior engineering roles in 24 days - half the benchmark time for a role like this. I did it by nailing the Intake part of our hiring process.

Take a look at the common pain points of your hiring managers and some examples of how automating helps with the heavy lifting to make great hires happen quicker.

Cut the confusion surrounding gathering references on your job application. HR experts share how to ask someone to be a reference without making it awkward, plus who to ask.

Technical hiring is challenging for those who aren't fluent in tech-speak. Here are the seven most common hiring roadblocks and how to fix them so you have a smoother technical hiring process.

Get answers to common questions regarding how to list references. We'll provide you with formatting tips and offer a few ideas of who can potentially make the best references.

Bias hiring decisions often go undetected. The first step on how to reduce bias hiring is to examine the different types of bias so you can address them in your hiring process.

For most job seekers, it's hard to know how to stand out and land an interview in a competitive job market. Read through our tips to help you out.

Learn how to ensure that your workplace is inclusive with steps like educating your leadership, eliminating bias in hiring, and providing safe feedback channels.

Let a hiring expert take you through the structure of a successful intake meeting, including the preparations and guideposts that will help you know if your approach is working.

When you have lots of candidates to get through, the interview process can seem overwhelming. You can rest easy — this strategic interview process will make your best candidate rise to the top.

Amazing bosses all have a few things in common — and we have answers to what those traits are. By mastering these five key management skills, you'll set yourself and your team up for success.

Get some expert tips for managing diversity on your team, including examining unconscious bias, adjusting your job descriptions, offering diversity training, and going beyond affirmative action.

An expert recruiter highlights nine interview questions that withstand the test of time and four creative follow-up questions. These Q’s highlight the best candidates during the job interview.

Hunting for a job? Here are some insightful ways to prepare, research, target, and follow through on opportunities so the job search feels less like an uphill battle and more like surfing a wave.

Will personality tests for jobs help or harm your hiring process? Determine if you should use the ever-popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or DiSC Assessment before choosing a candidate.

Many interviewers ask these nine practice interview questions. Study up with our practical guidelines for answering them. We share sample answers so you can prep your best responses.

Here's everything you need to know about what pre-employment screening is, key details on the types of testing, and which types of screening to use for your unique hiring situation.

Learn what is involved in the recruitment process. We'll show you what a recruiter does (and doesn't do) and what steps you can automate. Craft a more effective recruiting and hiring process now.

Let experts take you through a few guidelines to help you complete the best reference checks. We'll share a couple of tools that can help you get them done painlessly.

Dave Gilbert (VP Talent, Gitlab), Evan Connor (Homes Recruiting, Airbnb), and Fadi Hindi (People Ops/Strategy, Udemy) discuss remote hiring in the midst of covid-19. Here's our recording + recap!

Move over Great Resignation: it’s time for the Great Retention.

References can be game-changing for your hiring process, if you address these 7 common mistakes.

So it's time for the second interview. What should you ask? These examples of powerful second interview questions will help you uncover the most compatible candidate for your open role.

Interviewing someone soon? Mix things up with unique situational interview questions to help you learn more about how a candidate thinks and whether they will fit in with your company’s culture.

Learn how to assess for soft skills in the workplace to make your interviews more effective. This guide to hiring for soft skills will make your teams more cohesive and productive overtime.

Strengths-based recruitment can help you make the tough decision between multiple top candidates. Learn how to ask strengths-focused interview questions that will guide your hiring.

Technical hiring is challenging for those who aren't fluent in tech-speak. Here are the seven most common hiring roadblocks and how to fix them so you have a smoother technical hiring process.

Technical recruiters are the key to getting qualified candidates in the door for your technical positions. Learn what they do, how much to pay them, where to find them, and how to attract them.

If you care deeply about employee engagement and retention, learn how to calculate your turnover rate here. Then, we'll share what causes a high turnover rate and how to fix it.

Who makes the cut when you’ve got several ideal candidates in the pipeline? It really boils down to what types of interview questions you ask job seekers — and how they respond.

There are several different types of interviews that we choose from to ensure we’re getting the information we need from a candidate. We’ll share some of the most common.

Learn the benefits of workplace diversity, the types of diversity you need, as well as common challenges (and solutions) when attempting to build a more diverse talent pool.

Virtual job interviews don't have to suck. Here are tips for every hiring manager to conduct professional, enjoyable Zoom or Skype interviews without sacrificing on quality or human touch.

Allison Silber (Product Manager, Zeus), Carly Donovan (Recruiting Manager, Airtable), and Hope Weatherford (Head of Talent, InVision) share advice for jobseekers. Here’s our recording + recap!

Alex Bouaziz, CEO of Deel, shares hard and soft skills essential for successful remote tech workers

Learn from Jon Stross (co-founder, president at Greenhouse) and Rick Iversen (head of global recruiting at eBay) as they share insights into modern recruiting that is distributed yet aligned.

We’re proud to announce Searchlight’s $2.5M seed round, led by Accel with participation from Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Soma Capital & angels from companies like Stripe, Ironclad, and Front!

Peter Oh, Dir of Eng at Optimizely, shared with me, “No technical gap is too large for a highly motivated individual to cross if they’re in the right environment."