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Recruiters, It's Time to Start Texting Candidates

Cornerstone On Demand

A version of this article was originally published on the SmashFly blog. And while email is still, of course, the preferred method of communication for recruiters looking to connect with potential job candidates its getting as easy to ignore and delete as T.V. I am the person whose mobile Gmail app always has a number bubble on it.

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PODCAST - #HRHappyHour 267 - Recruitment Marketing, Branding, and Technology

Steve Boese

Recorded live at SmashFly Transform in Boston, Massachusetts. This was a fun show, thanks to Jared for sitting down with us, and thanks to SmashFly for having the HR Happy Hour at the Transform event. And of course, thanks to our HR Happy Hour Show sponsor Virgin Pulse - www.virginpulse.com. Hosts: Steve Boese , Trish McFarlane.

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Improve the Candidate “Shopping” Experience

TalentCulture

As a board member for the Talent Board , you’ve hopefully witnessed my advocacy for candidates; Of course I also offer kudos to employers who are taking strides toward improving the journey from stranger to employee. Data from SmashFly states that 74% of candidates drop off of the apply process. This post is sponsored by SmashFly.

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Top 4 Reasons Talent Pipelines are A No-Brainer

TalentCulture

A talent pipeline, of course! According to SmashFly, make your career network accessible from as many ways as possible and keep it simple. This post is sponsored by SmashFly. For more content like this, follow SmashFly on Twitter , LinkedIn , YouTube and SlideShare. Where, you ask? All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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The Nature vs. Nurture of Sourcing

TalentCulture

So of course, being resourceful and masters of critical thinking, with access to unlimited data, plus more and more job reqs to fill, sourcers are expected to find more of the better candidates, faster. This post is sponsored by SmashFly and was previously published on the Smashfly blog. It’s critical thinking at its finest.

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AI in Recruiting – Salvation at Last?

General Information Services

But thanks to ground-breaking apps with whimsical names such as SmashFly and Mya, the heavy lifting part of recruiting the most qualified talent is becoming vastly faster, easier and more accurate than anything we could have imagined even five years ago. But of course there are risks.

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My 2017 Recruiting Challenge — Get More Sourced Candidates Interested

Jeff Waldman

I’m not the most detailed person in the world so this was challenging for me, and I am sure if I was using a recruiting CRM (a few that immediately come to mind are Avature , Workable , Bullhorn , SmashFly , Beamery and Jobvite ) I could have been a little bit more effective. Of course not.