Jobvite Infographic: Smart College Recruiting Strategies

Five years ago, recruiters didn’t spend much (if any) of their time questioning whether a resume was authentic. And candidates? Generally assumed there was a real person reviewing their...

When I started the people actually podcast back in March, my vision was to simply highlight the unsung heroes behind every company—the TA and HR pros. Because people power your business, and these...

TL; DR  Hiring isn’t resume-led anymore—and in truth, it can’t be.  Thanks to the rise of AI, all a candidate has to do is pop a job description into their LLM of choice and out comes… The post...

Baby Boomers first started entering the job market in the 1960s.  Gen Z? They’re entering the job market as we speak.  Today’s workforce is made up of four very distinct, and often, very...

You heard it here first: The “Great Stay” is officially over. Welcome to what we’ve coined at Employ as “The Great Pause.”   For the past few years, our Job Seeker Nation data showed a consistent...

TL;DR: AI didn’t just change the hiring game—it completely rewrote the rules. But with new benefits came new challenges. Specifically: candidate fraud.   Almost overnight, TA pros were left...

TL; DR Peak season doesn’t sneak up—but somehow the hiring scramble always does.  One minute you’re fully staffed. The next? Open shifts, long lines, and “we’re hiring” signs everywhere. ...

Buzzwords? Polished decks? Surface-level trends?   Let’s just say… those weren’t in the room at Employ’s recent Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meeting.   What was in the room? Honest conversations...

Time to hire. Offer acceptance rate. Candidate experience score.   In today’s recruiting world, tracking these metrics is table stakes. But the real question is: How do you know if your results...

TL; DR If your pipeline is growing, why aren’t your hires improving? Here’s the thing: With fewer qualified candidates and lower screen-to-interview rates, the challenge isn’t attracting more...

Hiring teams are facing a shifting reality. Applications are surging, signals are harder to trust, and candidate fraud is becoming more sophisticated by the day.  The post Early Screening in the...

TL;DR AI has reshaped the hiring landscape. But with new opportunities come new risks, namely candidate fraud. Today, TA leaders have a dual mandate: accelerate hiring and protect the funnel. The...

Finding great candidates today isn’t about generating more applicants. It’s about building a smarter, more intentional approach to sourcing, engaging, and converting the right talent—faster. In...

Imagine if every new hire felt like the perfect hire. Not just someone who checks the boxes. But someone who fits the role, the team, and the culture—and stays long-term because...

Ask any recruiter or TA pro what’s keeping them up at night. Lately, there’s a good chance that the answer is candidate fraud.  What once felt like a fringe concern has quickly become one of the...

Last updated: February 17, 2026  Originally published: November 24, 2021 Hiring success today comes down to one thing: keeping the right candidates moving forward.  But when manual processes slow...

You’ve evaluated your options, weighed the tradeoffs, and selected a new ATS.   Now? It’s time for your system migration. This work will set the stage for everything that comes next—how quickly...

Great recruiting isn’t reactive—it’s predictive and proactive.   But that can’t happen with out-of-date, out-of-sync processes and technology. It only happens when you can see what’s coming, when...

Enterprise hiring doesn’t happen on a small scale. When you’re managing thousands of applicants each year, staying organized—and hiring well—requires a powerful applicant tracking system (ATS)...

Many talent acquisition teams have invested in recruitment marketing tools—but still struggle to answer the questions leaders care about most: Did our software move the needle? Where should we...