Entelo Acquires ConveyIQ, Raises Additional Funding

While it’s been a bit quieter on the Entelo blog as of late, we’ve been working on something BIG behind the scenes and we’re excited to finally be able to share the news with you.

Announced just this morning, Entelo has acquired ConveyIQ, the leading candidate engagement platform for screening, interviewing, and hiring top talent. This is a giant leap forward for the Entelo recruiting automation suite, making way for the creation of the most powerful – and only – end-to-end sourcing to hire recruitment platform. To fuel such an ambitious undertaking, Entelo has also secured a new round of venture funding. 

5 Shocking Findings of The 2019 Recruiting Automation Trends Report

 
Each year we survey hundreds of TA professionals to uncover the leading trends, practices, and challenges facing recruiters and piece these together in our annual Recruiting Trends Report. Last year, amongst many interesting findings, our 2018 report shed some much needed light on the important role recruiting automation has begun to play within the most successful talent organizations.

Personalization at Scale: Supercharge Your Outreach With These 4 Techniques

Personalizing at scale – sounds like a bit of an oxymoron, doesn’t it? If we focus on one, it’s often to the detriment of the other. This trade off gives high-volume outreach a bad name: without a scalable way to reach a large audience in a targeted fashion, recruiters are left “spraying and praying.”

5 New Year's Resolutions To Take Your Recruiting To The Next Level

For many of us, January is more than the just the start of a new year. It’s a clean slate to set new intentions and a chance to recommit to old ones. It’s no surprise then that January typically sees an almost 20% increase in gym memberships.

Make 2019 The Year You Kick Reactive Recruiting To The Curb

It may be the start of a new year, but for those of us welcomed back to the office today by overflowing email inboxes and back-to back meetings– work may already feel a little old.

It’s easy to slip into 'reactive mode' when we’re struggling to play catch up. In order to stay afloat, our focus turns exclusively to completing tasks and checking items off our to-do list. According to Atlassian’s Senior Recruiter Kylie Gomez, the consequences of operating predominantly in our reactive mode are much more than needless stress: “When we get on this loop of “I’ve got to get these responses, I’ve got to get people out, I’ve got to get people in my funnel,” we tend to not be strategic.”

A Timeline of 2018 – Entelo's Year in Review

It’s been a busy year for us here at Entelo, from hosting the inaugural Recruiting Automation Summit to bringing on 5 of the top 8 Fortune 500 companies as customers, and yet it’s hard to believe another yearend is quickly approaching. 2018 has been one of innovation and evolution for Entelo, with almost every month bringing new features and updates to the platform. To recap this year's progress and set the tone for what to expect in 2019, take a look at our year in review:

Entelo's 10 Most Read Articles of 2018

If the 2018 Recruiting Trends Report is any indication, this year has been a big one for recruiting automation. The most successful talent teams have already begun to separate themselves from the pack by leveraging AI within their recruiting process– hiring great-fit, diverse talent faster and more efficiently than the competition.

3 Ways To Take The Guessing Out of Sourcing

Your hiring manager hands you a vague job description, and it’s up to you to deliver a pipeline filled with top-notch talent. You find a great-fit candidate, but the timing is off. Desperate to find another candidate just as fitting, you begin your search again.

Get Your Copy – The Definitive Guide To Recruiting Automation Hits The Shelves Today

Earlier this year we published Recruiting Automation for Dummies, a beginner’s guide to the emerging space of recruiting automation. Hitting the shelves today, our latest eBook The Definitive Guide to Recruiting Automation goes one step further by providing hands-on exercises to get your recruiting automation strategy up and running in no time. 

In The Wake Of AI, This Stanford Professor Predicts Unforeseen Costs

"At the end of the day, AI makes every decision we make more informative."

-Mohsen Bayati

We took a brief hiatus from Hiring on All Cylinders: Recruiting Automation Summit Edition, but now we’re back – and this time our host Sean Simerly is catching up with Stanford Professor Mohsen Bayati. The topic of conversation? Unforeseen costs of Artificial Intelligence.

3 Email Campaigns to Boost Your Response Rates

From email drip campaigns to sales cadences, there’s a shared philosophy when it comes to marketing and sales outreach– the more at-bats you give yourself, the more likely you are to knock it out of the park. Curious to see if this same philosophy applied to recruiting, we analyzed all emails sent through Entelo Track and discovered a 17% increase in response rates when a follow up email is used.

How Atlassian Uses Entelo To Source Through a Diverse Lens

Atlassian is guided by the belief that great products are a direct result of diversity; this principle informs the vision and direction of the company everyday. For the Atlassian talent team, that means approaching their entire recruiting process–from sourcing all the way to closing a candidate– through a diverse lens.

How Raytheon Uses Entelo to Find Diverse, Security-Clearable Talent

It’s no secret that technical talent is in high-demand. In 2018, unemployment for software engineers weighed in at about 1.6%, significantly lower than the national average of ~4%. With the demand for technical talent far exceeding the supply, recruiters are spending a large part of their day sifting through online profiles and reaching out to passive candidates with a discouraging return rate.  

2019 Recruiting Automation Trends– Join the Conversation Today!

Every year, Entelo surveys thousands of Talent Acquisition professionals to uncover the leading trends in recruiting technologies, best practices, and initiatives. And each year, the data that we collect reveals how rapidly the industry evolves, even in the span of 12 months.  

ICYMI: Our Podcast Guests Talk AI – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Over the last few weeks, our podcast team has been hard at work putting together the final episodes of Hiring On All Cylinders: HR Tech Edition and in the process we've witnessed a central theme emerge. What do an editor of a major HR publication, an HR tech startup CEO, and the founder of a technology advisory firm agree upon, you might ask?