Occasions have been robust. Between an impending financial downturn and tightening headcount, expertise groups have needed to flip to business thought leaders to know what’s subsequent.
And whereas TA leaders like you’re researching the most recent macro components impacting your job, you’re additionally turning to content material that teaches or reinforces greatest recruiting practices in an effort to nonetheless construct candidate relationships and be extra intentional about hiring within the subsequent yr.
- Lever understands the challenges that corporations and expertise groups are experiencing at this time.
To assist your recruiting workforce keep sharp in a tender market, we’ve compiled a listing of essentially the most impactful Lever weblog posts we revealed in 2022 that may make it easier to form your expertise acquisition methods and ways in 2023.
DEI, quiet quitting, stopping ghosting and extra: Prime matters featured in Lever’s 2022 recruiting blogs
The blogs beneath aren’t essentially the preferred from 2022. Moderately, these are posts that “clicked” with our viewers and sparked conversations round a number of the largest traits and matters which have affected (and proceed to have an effect on) expertise leaders and their groups.
From ongoing investments in variety, fairness and inclusion initiatives to proactive efforts to stop candidates from departing the recruitment course of, the themes of those blogs resonated with TA and HR professionals at corporations of all sizes and throughout industries.
1) Sustaining Your Give attention to Variety In The Office
Staying up-to-date on DEI greatest practices and traits was already overwhelming for a lot of execs. Doing so grew to become much more troublesome for them, as they needed to prioritize different urgent enterprise issues (i.e., staying afloat, avoiding layoffs) amid financial headwinds in 2022.
However, as our recruiting weblog explains, that’s nonetheless not sufficient cause to deprioritize DEI. A “down” interval is an opportune time for CEOs to double down on their DEI efforts to proceed enhancing their firm tradition and stand out to high expertise.
“The extra folks in your group whose passions you’ll be able to faucet into with these DEI partnerships by which you’re investing, the extra protected that DEI funds is from being sidelined by different priorities or by financial instability,” Attentive Chief of Workers for Recruiting Cierra Tavarez shared at Accelerate22.
2) Stopping ‘Ghosting’ with Sensible Candidate Nurturing
“Ghosting” is one thing chances are you’ll anticipate from a blind date or a “pal of a pal” who mentioned they’d come to your subsequent occasion. Now, although, it’s one thing numerous corporations (sadly) expertise with job candidates.
A Robert Half survey discovered 39% of senior managers noticed a rise in candidate ghosting (i.e., skipping interviews, ignoring affords) in 2022 in comparison with 2020.
Our recruiting weblog breaks down why passive candidates ghost would-be employers and what your workforce can do (see: well timed, personalised communications) to stop energetic alternatives from exiting your recruitment course of.
3) The Nice Rehire and Candidate Expectations in 2022
The Nice Resignation could also be slowing down, as 2022 winds down. And, as famous, disruptive exterior situations have hindered many corporations’ hiring efforts for the foreseeable future.
Nonetheless, as our weblog outlines, it’s nonetheless important for expertise groups to perceive what certified candidates need from employers at this time. This degree of readability ensures they will join with and convert these job seekers and meet their desires and desires (e.g., versatile work choices, give attention to DEI, inner mobility).
4) Are You Stopping or Pushing Quiet Quitting?
One of many extra confounding TA-related traits of 2022 was quiet quitting: workers’ act of doing the naked minimal on the job and by no means going above and past of their roles.
Greater than half of HR professionals and one-third of individuals managers informed SHRM they have been involved concerning the potential unfavorable ramifications quiet quitting might have on their workforce engagement, communication and productiveness.
Our weblog may also help you discern whether or not or not actions by your C-suite and folks managers are contributing to excessive charges of quiet quitting (and, in flip, low output and morale).
5) 2023 Recruiting Tendencies All Expertise Groups Ought to Know
Accelerate22 featured many informative discussions with TA consultants and influencers on the most recent recruiting traits: from DEI, to inner mobility, to retention.
These traits aren’t simply ones expertise leaders ought to know heading into 2023. They’re additionally ones TA administrators should issue into their annual recruitment technique planning.
There are 5 fundamental takeaways from our digital convention that may assist enterprise and expertise leaders enhance the psychological well being of their workforce, make additional progress with their DEI initiatives, and — within the case of expertise acquisition leaders — learn to maintain their seat on the desk with different high-level decision-makers.
6) 3 Variety Recruiting Methods to Encourage Your Crew
One side of DEI expertise groups should frequently refine is their variety recruiting efforts.
This weblog publish highlights how three Lever prospects constructed distinct variety recruitment applications that assist them establish, have interaction, and rent candidates from underrepresented teams and showcase their DEI-related progress internally and externally.
For instance, Lever buyer Ritual ensures its job postings function inclusive language and interview panels function members of various diversities and backgrounds to supply an equitable, end-to-end recruitment course of.
7) 15 Useful Recruiting Instruments for Expertise Acquisition
Your major recruiting know-how allows you to government successfully and effectively in your day-to-day. However there are particular exterior instruments recruiters want to attach to their fundamental TA tech to streamline and pace up sure actions — together with joint duties with their HR groups.
This recruiting and HR weblog spotlighted a number of instruments that sync straight with Lever’s huge (and rising) integration associate ecosystem. These instruments assist expertise groups with our TA suite higher collaborate internally and talk with certified candidates in a well timed, personalised means.
We clarify why these strong recruiting instruments — from talent-sourcing options to candidate evaluation platforms — are must-haves in trendy TA tech stacks.
8) Setting Sensible Recruitment Targets for Your Expertise Crew
Actually transformational expertise leaders don’t simply “set and neglect” broad aims for his or her recruiters. As an alternative, they set formidable however sensible KPIs that align with general enterprise objectives tied to income and headcount development.
This weblog implores expertise leaders who’re planning their 2023 recruitment methods to set objectives for his or her groups at giant and particular person recruiters which can be SMART: particular, measurable, achievable, related and time-based.
In response to the weblog publish, expertise acquisition administrators can craft clearly outlined aims and KPIs following conversations with their CEO, CHRO and hiring managers.
9) 5 Knowledgeable Ideas for Recruiting for a Hybrid Office
We’re nearly a couple of years into the pandemic-altered enterprise panorama by which hybrid work environments have turn out to be the norm for quite a few corporations worldwide.
Nonetheless, it’s by no means too late to study greatest practices tied to establishing a hybrid office and associated recruiting technique that satisfies job candidates’ and present workers’ wishes to separate time working remotely and on the workplace.
10) How Expertise Acquisition Groups Leverage Visible Insights
Expertise leaders more and more perceive the significance of expertise analytics — and, extra particularly, data-driven recruiting options that supply real-time, actionable insights — to their groups’ and firms’ success.
Nonetheless, many TA leaders don’t know the distinction between legacy, standalone recruitment databases and full TA suites with strong analytics and highly effective CRM capabilities multi function answer — and why the latter is the extra confirmed and sustainable possibility for his or her groups.
Our explanatory weblog on Visible Insights, the out-of-the-box analytics constructed into LeverTRM, particulars the dozen-plus dashboards in our native ATS and CRM answer.
The publish notes how Lever prospects use the always-up-to-date information concerning prospects’ standing of their pipeline, the variety of their expertise swimming pools and energetic alternatives, and different aspects of their TA efforts to refine, streamline and pace up their recruiting processes.
We hope this checklist of recruiting blogs helps you construct out your 2023 technique and empowers your workforce to tackle challenges they may face within the coming yr.
Find out how our expertise acquisition suite may also help you and your TA org obtain your hiring and development objectives within the yr forward. Chat with our workforce at this time.
