Greenhouse VP of Engineering Decodes Tech Talk in Programming 101

Hiring tech talent is tough enough.

Striking gold means locking down skilled, available people for your engineering roles – a rare, treasured occurence for many hiring teams. To add to the mix, recruiters and engineers have notoriously mingled the same way oil and water does not. Miscommunication. Kitsch outreach. Less than ideal timing. It's a recipe for recruiting disaster. 

One quick fix? Learn how to speak tech talent's language and you'll be a few steps ahead of most recruiters blindly leading the charge.

If you won't take our word, lend an ear to Mike Boufford. As the days count down til we kick off Programming 101 with Greenhouse's VP of Engineering, Mike spills the beans on what ticks off engineers the most – and how to get them on your side. Read on.

3 Ways to Evaluate Sourcing Tools for Your Team

Choose wisely – the tools of the hiring trade hold the key to how your company makes or breaks its future.

For a seasoned recruiter, evaluating hiring tools is a familiar undertaking, some preferring to stick with a select list of tools throughout their career. Those who are new to the game might find a jumbled, confusing mix of options rife with bells, whistles, and genuinely helpful features.

Not sure where to start when deciding which candidate sourcing tool works best with your hiring goals?

Closing out the last days of #WGS15, we asked Gamemaster Ronnie Bratcher to share his wisdom from 15 years of tech sourcing and recruiting. Here’s how he evaluates the next best thing.

A Quick Guide to the Fundamentals of Programming

Shun the nonbelievers. You don’t need a background in tech to make tech hires.

Hiring teams frequently deal with the challenge of finding people for these roles – skilled and available candidates are already hard to come across, but the task becomes especially difficult when you’ve never held or recruited for the job.

That’s where we come in. We tapped on the shoulder of good ole Mike Bouffard, Greenhouse VP of engineering, to teach us his love language in our upcoming joint webinar, Programming 101 for Recruiters.

Won’t you say you’ll join us?

Why You Should Hire Candidates for Potential

In a world where experience and job titles are one and the same, and the density of a resume can make or break a hire, the idea of hiring someone with less experience can scare some recruiters.

A candidate who looks exceptional on paper may not translate the same in the office. On the other hand, a candidate who has the basic skills needed to get the job done now and the drive to learn skills required for the job later can be just as good a fit as an ideal candidate.

Here’s why.

Top Productivity Tools to Add to Your Team’s Hiring Arsenal

Haste makes waste but in this century, there’s an app for this and a shortcut to automate that.

The World’s Greatest Sourcer Challenge is off to a running start and we’re halfway through, so we spoke with The Sourcing Institute’s Shally Steckerl to learn what he’s using to amplify his sourcing strategies.

Check them out.

6 Email Hacks to Improve Your Outreach Strategies

Candidate emails can be likened to haikus. The 5-7-5 model need not apply, but there's a recipe for creating a concise message that's relevant and compelling.  

You've heard of hyper-personalization and nurturing a virtual relationship, but because the ball ultimately lies in a candidate's court, the key is opening up the conversation to influence an interpersonal reaction. Read: They don't toss your message.

Try these six techniques for increasing your email open and response rates with candidates. 

Last Call: Your Chance to Be the World's Greatest Sourcer

The World's Greatest Sourcer is off to a swift start! We're just a week deep and a few challenges into the competition, but from what we've seen, this contest is on fire. We don't need water, but we would like you to join the party!

Hundreds of contestants are duking it out for the title of none other than the World's Greatest Sourcer, and there's still time to put on your sourcing hat, freshen up your hunting skills, and hit the ground running. 

Here's why you should cash in on the extra tickets we saved for you and your team to hop on the bandwagon. 

Top 4 Things We Learned from Greenhouse Summit 2015

The first ever Greenhouse Summit opened its doors this week, combining the forces of over 300 talent pros to discuss their top techniques for finding the best people and transforming their company into a lean, mean hiring machine.

Folks by the likes of Lou Adler, Stacy Zapar, and Jason Medley, to name a few, shared their know-how and solutions for some of recruiters' oldest and biggest problems.

Here's what we're going back to the drawing/hiring board with – share them with your team!

Ready? Set? Source! WGS 2015 Kicks Off

Dole out the drum rolls, hoots, hollers, and all the live tweets in between.

Today marks the official start of the World’s Greatest Sourcer competition!

Hundreds of sourcers worldwide will duke out their candidate hunting skills in a decathlon series of challenges to prove their chops as the top talent pro.

Bloomberg TV and Entelo Discuss Improving Workplace Diversity in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is notorious for being the homebase for many of the world's largest tech companies and an ever-growing population of emerging startups. On another front, the hub for leading innovation is also known for its less-than-impressive diversity reports exposing the underrepresentation of women and minorities in the workforce.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon, and Pinterest released their own diversity numbers in the last year, revealing the Valley's male-dominated industry and unmissable, unsuccessful initiatives to cultivate a mix of employees with diverse backgrounds.

In the midst of the ongoing conversations striving to solve tech's diversity problems, Entelo CEO Jon Bischke was featured on Bloomberg TV to discuss the algorithm already helping dozens of companies, including Microsoft, Facebook, and Yelp, meet their diversity initiatives – Entelo Diversity.

How to Tell When a Candidate Will Reject Your Offer

There are a few indicators of when a candidate is about to say no to an offer you’ve extended to them, and rather than running in circles waiting on someone stuck in the perpetual state of “maybe”, there are ways to identify someone who’s about to fall out of your funnel.

No matter how much a star a candidate may be, putting a halt on building your pipeline while waiting for a candidate’s response is never ideal or efficient.

What recruiters and hiring managers should generally look out for are candidates who self-select, push back, and delay the hiring process by choice.

Avoid breaking the hiring process and heed caution around candidates who express these behaviors after you’ve extended an offer.

Missed Our Webinar with Jobvite on Improving Recruiter-Hiring Manager Communication? Read On

We joined forces with Jobvite for a hot talk on one of the biggest challenges in hiring – building a solid relationship between recruiters and hiring managers.

“Why is the search taking so long?” “What does this job title mean?” “Where on Earth am I supposed to find a candidate like that?!”

Whether you’re a rookie recruiter or a seasoned pro, these are questions you’ve likely heard around the office.

Here's How to Win the World's Greatest Sourcer

Time to turn on sourcing survival mode!

We’re just two weeks away from the March 24th kick-off of the World’s Greatest Sourcer – are you ready to take on the competition?

Battling with the best and brightest sourcers and recruiters isn’t an easy feat, so we teamed up with The Sourcing Institute for an exclusive sneak peek into the official WGS challenges.

6 Obvious Signs a Candidate Could Be Interested in Your Opportunity

“They like me. They really, really like me.”

When was the last time you thought that about a candidate? You may be missing out on people responding to your moves to get them in the company if you’re overlooking their inconspicuous, low-key gestures.

Check out these signals a candidate likes what you’ve got to offer.

The 10 Books Every Talent Pro Should Have on Their Nightstand

…and very likely could have!

Practice may make perfect, but if luck runs out and the $2,500 cash prize for winning the World’s Greatest Sourcer slips through your fingers, runner-up is still pretty sweet.

We previously came up with the official WGS reading collection, but adding 26 books to a growing reading list may feel ambitious for any talent pro. We asked Shally, “If you could take any 10 books with you to a deserted island, what would they be?”

Here’s what he told us.