Category: HR Metrics

HR Metrics 5 productivity tools for recruiters

5 productivity tools for recruiters

According to the Gartner CIO Agenda Report, 66% of CIOs believe that there is talent crisis in the world… yet there is surprisingly little talent innovation. This is further aggravated by the emerging digital skills that companies will need to compete. As companies invest in areas such as analytics, the Internet of Things and cloud …

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HR Metrics 8 reasons why recruiters should be careful when using gamification to screen candidates

8 reasons why recruiters should be careful when using gamification to screen candidates

Gamification brings elements like rewards, points, rankings and techniques such as storytelling, into recruiting methodology for potential candidates. It is being used increasingly by companies in all its facets as it facilitates faster candidate-screening, teaches key values and processes, educates them on job content, tools and technologies and lastly, it challenges candidates on specific skill …

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Employer Branding Hiring for the Future, how to build a future-proof workforce

Hiring for the Future, how to build a future-proof workforce

Last month on October 10th, we organized our fourth event in Berlin dedicated to HR Professionals. We involved Eva Glanzer, VP of People at GetYourGuide, Matthias Schmeißer, Cluster Lead – Talent Acquisition at Zalando, Natasha Borsos  Director of People and Talent at Clue to discuss this topic.       When companies find a working product-market fit, scaling is inevitable. For companies in this …

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HR Metrics Recruitment Process

Recruitment Process

What is the recruitment process The recruitment process is usually managed by Human Resources, and is a model of sourcing candidates with the main goal of hiring new people. It provides a pool of qualified candidates from which recruiters can choose. Not always are great talents looking for a job, so that’s why the recruitment procedure should not …

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HR Metrics What is talent acquisition

What is talent acquisition

Talent acquisition is the process by which an employer finds and obtains potential candidates. It is often confused with recruitment, but there are main differences between them, and they should not be used as synonyms. What is talent acquisition Talent acquisition is the process of finding and acquiring skilled human labor for organizational needs and to …

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HR Metrics How to measure HR Metrics

How to measure HR Metrics

In every industry, collecting metrics that indicate the return on investment for a particular business event, campaign or strategy is essential to the success of your operations, also in the human resources organizations. Hence in being a strategic business partner, HR experts have to certainly communicate the language of business. Inherent in this language is …

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HR Metrics Time to hire

Time to hire

An important metric for recruitment is the ‘time to hire’, which is a factor that shows the efficiency of the recruitment process, and provides insight into the difficulty of filling a certain job position. Using recruiting metrics effectively is about finding the signal in the noise. Hiring managers, business owners, and recruiters need data that delivers …

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Digital HR What do a surfer and a small company have in common

What do a surfer and a small company have in common

Close your eyes, and imagine to be at the Hawaii. You are in the ocean, with a surf board, and looking at a giant wave coming towards you. How do you feel in front of such a challenge? The answer goes from a range of “excited” and “fearless”, to “afraid” and “overwhelmed”. A giant wave …

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HR Metrics How HR should tackle post-vacation blues

How HR should tackle post-vacation blues

Do you know what the “post-vacation blues” is? Or, even better, have you ever experienced it? It is that kind of depression, feeling of sadness that employees feel after the holidays. Is it a legend? Is it a myth? Or does it really exist? We do not know this, but we do know that an …

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Digital HR Why is Internal Communication essential for HR?

Why is Internal Communication essential for HR?

It is clear that the world has changed the way we communicate. Organizations, companies, people: they are all changing. And, it is becoming more difficult to determine what people should be doing, what the mobile new world is gonna bring. The digital world is changing communication, and companies need to do something about it. The boundaries are blurring …

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