Once again in the middle of May this year I have had the pleasure to attend Pipeline Summit conference targeted at … sales people. Why? The participants and speakers of Pipeline Summit are representatives of very innovative companies. Companies where the customer goes first, where sales are based on understanding and satisfying the real needs
Last week, I attended the third edition of the Pipeline Summit. This is a “first of it’s kind sales event”. Ok, so if it’s a sales event, then what does someone who works with HR on a daily basis do there? I love Pipeline Summit for at least a number of things.
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Posting job advertisements online is a very common method for recruiting new employees. Did you know that there are simple methods for increasing the number of qualified candidates and that you can optimise the process? This will allow you to get much better results – with no change to the budget allocated to posting advertisements.
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This post will be a little different. In May 2016 I spent a day at the Pipeline Summit, a sales conference. Not by chance but by choice. What can make someone working in HR consider a conference aimed at sales valuable? There are at least a few reasons.
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In this post, based on my experience of applying to booking.com, I will describe a few features that are very easy to implement into normal behaviour and procedure, and at the same time can make the candidate feel like a partner in the recruitment process in which they participate.
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In one of the entries here I wrote about experiences I gathered in 17 interviews and how they led me to sad conclusions on how candidates are being treated. Now, let’s say a few words about what we can do to easily change it.
For those to whom the argument that candidates should be treated with respect is not convincing, I present some additional support.
A number of reasons made me put off writing this post. But instead of pointing them, I will better explain what made me finally decide to do it.
Firstly, for 10 years of my work in Pracuj.pl (the largest recruitment website in Poland) I would spend every day listening to opinions, expectations and pains of both sides of the recruitment process – candidates and employers. Still, when I started looking for a new job, every now and then I was completely stunned.
It is no secret that finding a nice domain that is not yet taken isn’t easy. And being serious…
“Digital” is a must-have
It is not only a fashionable word, a trending topic, a buzzword and a popular #hashtag. Digital means using modern media and tools, more then just the Internet and Facebook. It also means a complete change in approach to candidates and employees. This will be the kind of actions which we will be providing HR teams with to help them keep up with candidates, who have long been digital.