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Don’t Be Scared of NYC’s New AI Bias Law on Recruitment Software!
AI is far from new technology, and it’s a tool that has been leveraged in countless ways. From IBM’s Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 to Apple introducing Siri in 2008, to content recommendation

Economic Soft Landing and What It Means for Recruiters
The term ‘economic soft landing’ refers to a deliberate and controlled slowdown in economic growth to prevent out-of-control inflation and unsustainable expansion. Picture this scenario akin to a seasoned pilot guiding an aircraft to a gentle touchdown

How to Get the Most Out of Your ATS
In today’s competitive job market, you need to adapt quickly to find and retain top talent. Businesses often resort to sinking a significant investment into external recruiting sources and job boards to attract top talent. These can

Today’s Economy Calls For A New Approach to Recruiting
In recent years, change has been the only constant for global HR organizations. From the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to the ripple effect of a challenging economy, HR leaders and their teams have had to

Myth Busting Part II: Should You Spend or Save to Stay Afloat?
In Part I of Busting Myths: The Reality of Hiring in 2023, we established that despite many common misconceptions about the state of the job market, companies simply can’t afford to blindly slow hiring efforts if they

Top 3 Hiring Myths of 2023
The workplace is ever-evolving. The notion that employers must adapt to successfully attract and retain top talent is not new. However, the many challenges that the post-pandemic economy has introduced to businesses are. In addition to navigating

Why your candidate experience is dismal and what to do about it
Companies need to bring in the right talent to meet their business goals, but they are constrained by inefficiencies in the recruiting process every step of the way, starting with the first impression they make on applicants.

Quitting in Place: The High Price of Poor Employee Experience
If you’re involved in hiring, especially a human resource (HR) executive or talent acquisition (TA) professional, you may be familiar with the term “quitting in place,” and the effects it has on business performance. In this article,

What You Need to Know About Internal Mobility
Internal mobility isn’t a new concept; however, it is having a profound moment in the talent acquisition space. In response to the talent shortage, organizations are investing in the movement of their internal teams to ensure high-level

How to Attract Top Talent During a Labor Shortage
The race to attract top talent is hot, and shows no signs of slowing. Only now, it’s not just about recovering from an unexpected change in the market. Experts of identified a legitimate labor shortage. If you’re

Top 3 Recruiter Pain Points and How to Solve Them
Recruiters are still navigating a tumultuous market with 11 million job openings and only about half as many unemployed. You get it- the pandemic, nearly an entire generation retired, and the great resignation is holding on for

How to Attract and Retain Great Recruiters in 2022
You’re not alone if your company wants to do more to retain its best recruiters. With competition for talent heating up, the ability to attract and retain recruiters has become a hot commodity. According to data from

5 questions to ask your talent acquisition technology vendor
As companies struggle to fill their open positions, many are acquiring new talent acquisition technology to help them cope. In fact, according to Korn Ferry, 68% of recruiters surveyed said that investing in new talent acquisition technology

4 Ways to Improve Recruiter and Hiring Manager Collaboration
This article about improving the recruiter and hiring manager relationship was originally published in April of 2022. All relevant copy and statistics have been updated as of July 2022. Strong recruiter and hiring manager collaboration is vital

Talent Acquisition and Internal Mobility Combine: Is Your Team Prepared?
This article on internal mobility first appeared in December 2021 and was updated to reflect new information in August 2022. For additional information on talent acquisition and internal mobility , subscribe to the MojoHire blog. According to the U.S.

Career Pathing is Obsolete: Career Portfolio is the Future
Unfortunately, most companies’ approach to promoting internal mobility and keeping talent challenged, growing, and motivated has not kept up with the times, resulting in enormous costs. Employees are now leaving companies at unprecedented rates. We’ve seen companies

MojoHire wins 2022 Western Regional Minority Supplier Development Council’s award for Best Innovator
On June 9th, the Western Regional Minority Supplier Development Council held it’s 3rd annual “Best in the West” MBE Technology Pitch Event — a private event held annually where 7 handpicked World-Class Minority Business Enterprises pitched innovative

Six Ways to Incentivize Internal Talent Mobility at Your Organization
Every organization is experiencing hiring pains that are not going away anytime soon. Not only is it hard to recruit new employees, but it’s increasingly hard to keep the ones you already have. Much of this is

Beyond keywords: use intelligent matching to turn your ATS from a burden to a blessing
Keyword matching is great for simple Google searches, but when you’re dealing with the complexities of finding the right candidate for an open role, you need more than unintelligent word and phrase matching — you need intelligent matching.

Struggling with your ATS or HCM recruitment module? Here’s what you can do.
“Can someone explain to me why an ATS released in 2018 has the functionality of something built in 2008? Why is HR Tech so. dang. bad?” Pick any given day on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn and you’ll

Podcast: Make Clunky HR Systems Work and Discover Overlooked Candidates with MojoHire
On RecruitingDaily’s Use Case Podcast with William Tincup, MojoHire’s Spencer Liu describes some of its unique features and benefits that set it apart in the TA/HR Tech ecosystem, such as overlaying on top of existing systems and drastically

Clunky HR Tech Stacks: The Struggle Is Real, but There is a Better Way
Because talent acquisition is a complex process that involves multiple parties both inside and outside the organization, companies adopt technology to help HR teams effectively find, evaluate and onboard employees. Research shows that the average company can

The New World of Data and Talent: Solving the Pareto Problem Associated with the “Doom Loop”
When Rich Post, our Chief Revenue Officer at MojoHire, started his role with Team Mojo, he described to us a market observation he termed the Doom Loop. (Somewhat fatalistic, Rich!) Despite the fatalism, it resonated with everyone.

How to Turbo-Boost Hiring Velocity
The pandemic has talent acquisition leaders fighting a battle on two fronts. On one hand, it is harder than ever to find good talent, as masses of workers leave the salaried ranks to start their own businesses

Why You Need AI-Powered Talent Acquisition
Today’s HR organizations and recruiters are under tremendous pressure to find and acquire top talent with few resources and limited bandwidth. Artificial Intelligence (AI) talent acquisition tools and technology are reshaping how HR hires. Because AI technology

How AI Accelerates Recruiting
According to a recent Linkedin study, 56% of HR organizations already use some form of artificial intelligence (AI) and AI automation for talent acquisition. That same study projects that AI for talent acquisition is expected to dramatically

Organizational Agility: Is Your TA Team Helping or Hurting?
By Polo Crosbie and Spencer Liu, Product and Strategy at MojoHire Your talent acquisition team’s attitude towards HR tech is a tell-tale sign of how change-ready it is. Which one of these four organizational agility mindsets best

How to Transform a Recruiter’s Work from “Database Admin” to “Strategic Hiring Partner”
Talent intelligence starts with intelligent talent discovery By Polo Crosbie, Business Development Lead at MojoHire If there was already a talent shortage in the tech industry before COVID-19 hit, the challenge has intensified with the sea of

Internal Mobility: Onward and Upward
In a recent piece, we talked about the unspoken challenges of D&I: the pressure to deliver – and fast. It’s one of those topics that few people tackle because no one wants to admit that meaningful progress is

Discover Overlooked Candidates with MojoHire
On RecruitingDaily’s Use Case Podcast with William Tincup, MojoHire describes some of its unique features and benefits that set it apart in the TA/HR Tech ecosystem. Tincup described MojoHire’s ability to mine otherwise overlooked candidates buried in a

Four Ways to Increase Workplace Diversity
MojoHire sponsored a live webinar featuring Telle Whitney, co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration, in partnership with GLAM (Girls Leadership Academy Meetup). In this engaging conversation, Telle offers up four tips for attracting and retaining more women in your

MojoHire Available on Microsoft AppSource
We are excited about MojoRank’s availability on Microsoft AppSource, an online cloud marketplace providing tailored line-of-business solutions. MojoRank’sAI-enabled talent matching software features a proprietary algorithm that intelligently evaluates candidates based on job requirements to instantly disqualify those who

MojoHire Wins Gold for its Recruiting and Internal Mobility Innovation
MojoHire was named a Gold winner in the 13th Annual 2021 Golden Bridge Business and Innovation Awards, in the Cloud Computing/SaaS Innovation category, in recognition of the groundbreaking “industry firsts” it delivers to talent mobility and recruiting. “This recognition