When researching tools for small businesses, you have a lot of software options to consider: The list of cloud-based management tools goes on and on for today’s small business owners. One often overlooked small business technology many SMBs neglect to prioritize investment in today is an applicant tracking system (ATS) for their HR team’s recruiting […] The post The Top Small Business Technology to Help with Hiring appeared first on Lever ..read more

Talent acquisition teams at small and scaling companies routinely take a step back from their daily recruitment processes to evaluate the state of the candidate journey. (That is to say, TA teams at SMBs and mid-sized businesses assess the typical “path” their ideal candidate personas generally go through from start to finish in each recruiting […] The post Improving the Candidate Journey with an ATS: A Guide appeared first on Lever ..read more

Connecting third-party tools for candidate database management to your applicant tracking system is no longer necessary. Well, at least with an ATS with such a database built in. In other words? Your TA team can reduce its dependency on complex candidate data setups, so to speak, and, instead, rely on a built-for-purpose ATS with an […] The post Why Your ATS Needs a Searchable Candidate Database appeared first on Lever ..read more

While you and your family and friends are (rightfully) taking advantage of the warm (well, sweltering is more like it) summer weather, we at Lever remain hard at work to further enhance our already-best-in-class ATS with candidate relationship management capabilities. The latest evidence of our ongoing innovation can be found in our Summer 2023 release. […] The post Lever’s Summer 2023 Release: New ATS + CRM Features appeared first on Lever ..read more

The current labor market has a high number of job openings and a shortage of skilled talent. The number of openings reported in July by the BLS is hovering between 9 and 10 million jobs as of May 2023, with open roles outnumbering job seekers around 1.6 to 1. Recruiters and hiring managers are the […] The post 9 Ways to Use Recruitment Automation and AI Right Now appeared first on Lever ..read more

Despite economic headwinds and high-profile layoffs in certain sectors, recruiting top talent in today’s job market is still competitive and companies are hard-pressed to find quality talent. Organizations are under enormous pressure as resources are stretched thin, and talent teams search for ways to save time, increase efficiency, and streamline processes. That’s why smart recruiting […] The post How Automation Helps Transform Your Recruiting Efforts appeared first on Lever ..read more

Marketing, sales, product, information technology: These are some of the departments commonly considered “strategic business pillars” of your average company. Talk to talent acquisition leaders, though, and they’ll tell you TA is also a foundational piece of organizations today — and one that deserves to get and keep a permanent seat at the table where […] The post How Talent Acquisition Leaders Get a Seat at the Table appeared first on Lever ..read more

Your talent acquisition technology stack is unique. Few, if any, other orgs have the same exact tools and platforms in their TA tech ecosystems that your business does. At the same time, there are two specific kinds of recruiting systems that can be found in the tech “infrastructures” of just about every top talent team […] The post Transforming Your Talent Acquisition Technology Stack appeared first on Lever ..read more

Legacy ATS systems no longer get the job done for recruiters and talent specialists. Seven in 10 talent leaders (including some at Fortune 500 companies) say candidate relationship management (CRM) functionality is essential in any ATS in which they invest. That makes it clear that older, inadequate versions (i.e., ones that lead to inefficiencies and […] The post How Legacy ATS Systems Hurt Talent Acquisition appeared first on Lever ..read more

The good news is nearly three in four (72%) talent acquisition teams have an applicant tracking system at the center of their TA tech stacks to help them collect candidate data, Employ’s Q4 2022 Quarterly Insights Report found. The bad news is a number of these teams don’t realize they have an outdated ATS system […] The post Making the Case for a More Advanced ATS System appeared first on Lever ..read more