Candidate experience
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Impossible Interview Questions
Picture the scene: You’re a candidate sitting in front of a panel of hiring managers, it’s the second round of interview, the competition is high, the pressure is on but you’re well prepared, along comes the next question: “What’s your favourite song? Perform it for us now”. It’s a joke right? Wrong. According to a…
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Candidate Experience
What is Candidate Experience? Learn everything about the candidate experience, from initial contact to hiring. Our glossary explains key terms and concepts.
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Rejection letter: How you can still be remembered positively
No applicant likes to hear „no“ and most HR decision-makers don’t find it easy to write a rejection letter either. It’s easy to reach for the run-of-the-mill standard text such as „Unfortunately, we have to inform you that we have decided in favor of another candidate“, but in most cases, recruiters are not doing themselves…
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Candidate Experience 2020 – Part 3: Job search starting points and their impact on the candidate journey
For the candidate journey to end in a hire, everything has to be right. Find out why the starting point of the job search is so important – and what candidates really expect.
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Survey: Candidate Experience 2020 – Part 2: Application processes and candidate perception
Short process for your processes: Find out what really matters to applicants during the application process and gain an advantage.
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Study – How digitally fit are applicants?
How applicants’ online behavior affects the digital job market and what companies need to do now
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Candidate Experience 2020 (Part 1) What really matters
Employer reviews as a recruiting booster: Find out how you can use the most popular entry points in the job search in your favour and convince suitable candidates.
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Life Careerism, Are You Offering It to Your Candidates Yet? [INFOGRAPHIC]
In a recent report from Universum, a global leader in employer branding, the company highlights the rising value of life careerism for our emerging professionals. Apparently today’s younger generations are looking for meaning in their work, not just a paycheck, and according to Universum, it’s up to employers to deliver the goods. But how do…
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Do You Have an Online Application Process to Be Proud Of?
Earlier this year softgarden teamed up with Heilbronn University to undertake a survey which asked participants how they felt about the online recruiting process. The survey was carried out not only to find out how the participants felt about current application processes, but how we can improve the experience for them. After all, the system…
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Candidate experience & technology: It’s all about the human being
Technology is great, it facilitates several everyday tasks and speeds up uncountable processes – it starts with your laundry and continues with your applicant tracking system. We at softgarden love the technological advance so much that we completely dedicated ourselves to it. Our passion is a recruiting software which solves recruiters‘ problems they haven’t been…
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Looking for a job at your company should be easy
Put yourself in a candidate’s position. You are looking for a job and are searching different websites for interesting vacancies. You find an exciting company and you click through the complicated criteria list. Very often you have to choose criteria which do not really suit you. At the end, you are get a message saying…
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Recruiting Experience: It’s worth it to change perspectives
Although the war for talent is an ongoing topic in the human resource department, the topic of e-recruiting is still neglected. The authors of the current study „Recruiting Trends 2011“ note that online application forms and applicant management systems can reduce processing time and cost per application. Employers that pay more attention to this aspect…