Interviewing
Beating pedigree bias: why tech teams should hire for skills, not labels
Pedigree bias has long plagued the recruiting landscape. All too often, hiring teams seek sameness: targeting candidates with Ivy League degrees and Fortune 500 work experience. In doing so, they...
Ready to Shuffle Up Your Tired Interview Process?
When the top brass comes in to your HQ for a board meeting, who’s invited? More specifically, who from the talent organization is invited? Hopefully, someone on your team gets that coveted seat at...
Improve Close Rates By Offering Your Candidates a "Reverse Interview"
Experienced recruiters love to say in any interview, the candidate is also assessing you. That you need to balance technical assessment alongside selling the opportunity, making sure the candidate...
Greenhouse's Director of TA Uses These 3 Recruiting KPI Buckets
When you’re not busy sourcing, emailing, phone screening, and debriefing upon your next great hire, there’s a pretty good chance you live inside your ATS. Well, I’m thrilled you’ve all taken a quick...
Advanced Interview Calibration with Patreon's Director of Talent Acquisition
Eli Hamel has got his work cut out for him. 75 hires to make in 2018, another 125 in 2019, explicit company-wide diversity goals, and a lean talent team with which to do it. To get the long and...
Removing Recruiter Hurdles, as Told by Top HR Leaders
Have you ever had to chase around uninterested hiring managers, harangue interview panelists to fill out scorecards, or ping-pong back and forth with HR to move an offer letter up $5k?...