Alex Trufin, former Best Buy GM turned Executive Recruiter joins us today to talk about his journey as a founder and scaling his Executive Search business during COVID.
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Professional Baseball player turned Engineering Recruiter, Michael Santoro talks about tools and techniques to stay competitive in the sport of recruiting.

Few would describe recruiting as high-touch right now. But it can be. And it’s not all about automation. It’s about automating the right parts to free up recruiters to focus on human conversations, rapport and restoring trust in recruiting.

The best recruiters use Honeit to search specific questions, candidate answers, call transcripts, which you can easily show to your hiring manager and reduce their time spent on the front end of the process

Now we come to the promise of the modern recruiting: real-time conversations, with real-time interview data, where recruiters bring real value through true, honest, human conversations.

Pre-COVID, the recruiting industry was buzzing about pre-recorded interviews, chat-bots and one-way video interviews. Post-COVID, recruiter engagement, hiring manager engagement and human conversations are essential.

How would you solve a skills gap? The short answer is to think of your tech stack in a skills context, which is what Josh Bersin is moving people towards. The real answer requires a little bit more work.

Audio is powerful and on the rise for everyone. Attract diverse talent with audible job previews, shared in seconds after recruiting intake calls.

Recording job interviews, and giving hiring teams a way to “check the tape,” is a core way to bring transparency to recruiting and hiring.

Trust is a very obvious human-to-human condition. It’s built by conversations and time and relationships and showing up for the other side. How can SaaS help with that?

Recruiter intelligence is the fundamental value that recruiters bring to the hiring process. Info captured during intake calls & phone screens.

Recruiter soundbites are quick hits from a recruiter phone screen — 2 to 4 minutes — that the hiring manager and other stakeholders can hear between meetings, on the treadmill, whatever.

Executive Recruiters are calling Honeit Software “Zoom for Recruiting”. Honeit turns phone or video calls into talent intelligence.

Honeit CEO Nick Livingston was recently featured on the Recruiting Trailblazers podcast. Nick had the chance to talk with Marcus Edwardes about interview soundbites and the future of recruiting and hiring.

Soundbites, or quick highlights from a phone or video conversation with a candidate, could be the future of recruiting. When done right, they will save hiring managers both time and money. So, what does “doing it right” look like?

How do you train junior recruiters and clone your best recruiters? Recruiting works according to Pareto: 80% of output is from 20% of people.

Hiring managers have a huge role in recruiting. But when we talk about recruiting or HR technology, we tend to focus on the candidate and the recruiter. What do hiring managers want?

One of the hallmarks of the recruiter-hiring manager relationship for about three decades has been recruiter notes, but they have no place in 2021 anymore.

Remote hiring became the norm for white-collar jobs around March 2020. How can remote hiring be tactically maximized? Honeit has a solution.

Honeit turns phone, voip and video calls into talent insights. Check out our Greenhouse ATS & CRM integration.

Business conversations have been recorded for decades for training and quality control. Job interviews are business conversations too.

Watch Mike Cohen demonstrate how to impress candidates and delight hiring managers through better phone screens and candidate presentations.

Talk to candidates and clients anywhere in the world through live video calls and video interviews with nothing to download or install.

Now only takes one phone screen for sourcers, recruiters, account managers, corporate recruiters, hiring managers to screen talent together.

Technical recruiting has long been an area that companies of all sizes struggle with, and subsequently struggle to innovate because of. What if a focus on interview collaboration could help solve this?

Steve Cadigan is the former Chief Human Resources Officer for LinkedIn and recently joined the Honeit Software advisory board.

We were flattered. One of the nicest things we’ve heard a client say about HoneIt is that we are “Calendly on steroids.” We were flattered. Calendly is an incredible product for scheduling, and has built a business which now does about $60 million a year. What does this mean? For recruiters, scheduling a call is […]

Synchronous interview conversations, or real conversations with two people, have not been prioritized in HR technology, but it’s the future.

Search interview transcripts, questions, answers, tags to never miss a detail and rediscover the best candidates your team has spoken with.

This post isn’t meant to be political, but we know where your focus is this week. And there’s a lot of politics in hiring processes too, so let’s discuss the overlap.
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