Category: Recruiting strategies

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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Employer Branding What employee perks companies on Meritocracy are offering?

What employee perks companies on Meritocracy are offering?

Benefits are non-salary compensations that are given to employees: even though they represent an additional cost for companies, offering benefits can help them to attract best talents, increase their engagement and improve their long-term loyalty. What benefits companies on Meritocracy are offering to their employees? We run an analysis on companies on Meritocracy to learn …

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Recruiting strategies How BlaBlaCar, Bending Spoons and Caffeina onboard their new hires

How BlaBlaCar, Bending Spoons and Caffeina onboard their new hires

The onboarding is an important part of the recruiting process: a well structured onboarding process can determine how quickly new employees find their fit and how long they will remain in the company. Mariana (Communications, Culture & Engagement Officer at BlaBlaCar), Silvia (People Operations Officer at Bending Spoons) and Henry (Co-founder and HR Director at Caffeina) shared with …

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Recruiting strategies Why is the Candidate Experience important

Why is the Candidate Experience important

Candidate Experience is something every person in the HR sector should be considering very carefully. Once, hiring was all about the employer. Now, it is not like this anymore, the candidates have great power and their opinion is more important now than ever. But, what is it? What is Candidate Experience The Candidate Experience is …

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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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HR Metrics Why you should not hire for cultural fit

Why you should not hire for cultural fit

Hiring new candidates is a huge responsibility. During a job interview, recruiters may feel inclined to hire people that perfectly fit the company culture, and are on the same page of the future team. ‘Cultural fit’ is a term used to explain how companies are identifying the right candidates in this very competitive marketplace. Does hiring for cultural …

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Digital HR What will 2018 bring in recruitment trends?

What will 2018 bring in recruitment trends?

One of the biggest task of HR is, of course, recruitment. When we speak of the recruitment process, we immediately think of activities such as the analysis of the requirements of a specific job, attracting candidates to apply for that job, screening the applicants and selecting among them, hiring the chosen candidates to become new employees …

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Digital HR Should your company go for remote?

Should your company go for remote?

HR professionals are an integral part of every organization. Business owners need HR professionals to manage employees within an organization and handle the human value. But what happens if there is no human value to handle..physically? Well, we are talking about remote working, which means the chance for an employee to work wherever he wants, as long …

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Recruiting strategies Why should HR use Instagram to recruit talents?

Why should HR use Instagram to recruit talents?

Instagram has 200 million monthly users. Every day it has: 60 million photos taken. 25% of Fortune 500 companies using it. 45% of Top 100 brands posting. What does it all mean? Well, the numbers say it already. Instagram is one of the most powerful social media nowadays. But recruiting on it can be like trying to …

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