In a highly competitive job market, it’s crucial to communicate with applicants promptly and professionally. If you don’t respond promptly to talented candidates, your competitors will.Minimize the risk of losing out on excellent candidates by receiving timely email notifications for new applications. This way, you’ll be ready to reach out and expedite your recruitment processes. Never miss another application :Recruit … Read More
Welcome to :Recruit Essentials
Understanding the dashboard and other basic navigation Welcome to :Recruit Essentials! This guide is designed to help you become familiar with your new talent acquisition platform! With :Recruit Essentials, you’ll have a more streamlined recruitment process with all your talent information stored in one place, and multiple time-saving features at your fingerprints. Getting to know your way around this powerful … Read More
3 Burning Questions Keeping HR Professionals And Hiring Managers Awake In 2023
This article originally appeared in Forbes Human Resource Council and can be accessed here. Andrea Davey, CEO of Scout Talent, is a proud Forbes Council member and aims to support the Human Resource Council and its members to harness the potential of technology and the passion of people to grow companies, careers, and communities. 3 Burning Questions Keeping HR Professionals … Read More
On-Demand Webinar: How to Cut Time to Hire in Half
In a survey of 1,100+ HR and talent acquisition professionals conducted by Spark Hire, 84% of respondents stated that time to hire is a KPI they are actively trying to improve. Organizations are feeling the pressure to improve the speed to hire as they’re missing out on top talent more often and seeing their costs compounding. Watch Spark Hire and … Read More
The Secret to Identifying the Best Talent in Your Pool
Over the past year, the candidate market has slowly been opening up, with steady increases in applications per job ad month on month throughout all of 2022. As one challenge starts to subside, another arises for hiring managers everywhere: how to identify and hire the most skilled candidates in a growing talent pool. Fast, informed hiring decisions are still the … Read More
Generate more applications with Skills-Based Recruitment
The labor market is tight, and there are more jobs available than good candidates. Can your organization afford to try the same recruitment tactics again and again, hoping for a different result? You must think outside the box and try new, proactive hiring tactics if you hope to entice great talent to your teams. One way you can do this … Read More
Solve the top three talent acquisition challenges with employer branding
A report from KPMG has found that 77 per cent of business leaders have cited talent as their biggest challenge in 2023. The specific talent challenges being faced will range from attracting the right candidates, candidate drop off, and quick quitting. Creating a strategy to address these challenges is key to retaining your people, and growing your business. One facet … Read More
5 ways proactive talent acquisition empowers strategic workforce planning
There is a lot of talk about what constitutes a “future-ready” organization, and what that looks like for small to medium-sized establishments. A major theme in recent years is adaptability. The last eighteen months, in particular, enshrined the old adage that change is the only constant. And to be adaptable to change, organizations must be creative, antifragile, and collaborative. They … Read More
Smarter Employer Branding: Your guide to becoming an employer of choice
Amidst tough competition for talent, are your talent attraction and retention strategies attracting the right people? An important and often overlooked part of the talent acquisition process is the Employer Brand. That is, the reputation your organization has as an employer, and the work it does to retain your current team and attract new talent. In 3-part fortnightly webinar series, … Read More
A letter from the CEO
As we start to wrap up 2022, I’m taking some time to pause and reflect. I’ve been considering how we, the team at Scout Talent, have lived our purpose over the last twelve months: to Connect People to Grow Companies, Careers and Communities. I’m proud to share that in 2022 over 1,503,882 candidates applied for jobs using our talent acquisition technology … Read More
