What New Grads Look For In Their First Full-Time Role

Graduation marks the end of a chapter and the beginning of a new one for college students. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, about 1.9 million students will graduate in 2019. We tracked down 5 of those nearly 2 million students to discuss what’s next.



May’s Can’t-Miss Events & Resources for Professional Development

If our 2019 Guide To Recruiting & HR Events is any indication, at Entelo we get really excited about any opportunity to step outside the normal 9-5 and learn from industry leaders and peers. As an avid reader of the Entelo blog, we’re sure that you do too. Well, get your notebook and your reading-glasses-you-don’t-really-need-but-make-you-look-smart ready, because May is lining up to be a great one for professional development.



3 Workflows To Try Out In Entelo's New Extension Experience

The reality of today’s talent market requires recruiters to reference over 13 sites to source just one candidate. That means that any given time, the average recruiter has over 13 tabs open, hopping between them to cross-reference and gather candidate information. Talk about Tab Overload!



Announcing The 2019 Guide To Recruiting & HR Events

Another year, another long list of recruiting conferences and events to choose from. Deciding which event is best suited for your talent team is no easy task, which is why we’ve put together our annual Guide to Recruiting & HR Events.



Recruiting Education 101: How To Invest In Your Professional Development


Recruiters are an eclectic bunch. I’ve met lawyers turned recruiters, entrepreneurs who've launched agencies, and engineers who loved working with people too much to sit behind a screen all day.



Tired of Being Ghosted? Sapling CEO Bart Macdonald Has Some Advice for You

 

The term ‘ghosting’ likely brings to mind dating apps and swiping right. However, in our latest episode of Hiring On All Cylinders, it’s not the woes of modern dating that we’re discussing– but rather the growing prevalence of ghosting in the professional world.



Podcast: Duke Professor Talks Skill Islands, Super Highways, and Other Emerging Trends In The Job Market

40% of job descriptions with the exact same skill requirements have completely different titles. This is according to research done by Duke Professor Sharique Hasan and is what he dubs the ‘language gap’ in hiring.



What We Learned About Tech Recruiters from the 2019 Recruiting Automation Trends Report

As a part of the industry responsible for machine learning, AI, and the ‘cloud’, it’s not at all surprising that tech recruiters are early adopters. Back in the heyday of job boards and ‘post-’n-pray’, tech recruiters shifted their focus towards passive candidates. And now, as most companies practice passive sourcing in some shape or form, the most successful tech recruiters rely on intelligent tools to give them a competitive edge.



Entelo Study Shows Healthcare Recruiting Is Ripe For Automation

 
As the baby boomer generation ages, the number of job openings in healthcare is projected to skyrocket. Currently that number already far exceeds the supply of healthcare professionals, 1.1 million to 689,000.

With the demand expected to only increase, how can healthcare recruiters find success? Taking a closer look at responses from healthcare recruiters in the 2019 Recruiting Automation Trends Report, we’ve uncovered some answers.



5 Stats That Reveal A Persistent Challenge for Recruiters in Finance

 
The 2019 Recruiting Automation Trends Report has unveiled this year’s most important trends in recruiting, from the ways in which organizations leverage recruiting automation to the most successful strategies for bolstering diversity and mitigating unconscious bias in hiring.



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.

 



These Companies Are Paying the Big Bucks for Tech Recruiters in 2019

 
Back in 2015 we published one of our most popular articles to date reporting on the highest paying recruiter salaries in the industry. We couldn’t believe some of the incredibly high salaries top-performing recruiters were able to rack in.



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.”