Fall is almost here, which means SmartRecruiters is gearing up to hit the road for several industry events and conferences, and we want to meet you there! Connect with us in a city near you!

Talent Board North American Candidate Experience Symposium & Awards Gala

October 2, 2017 – Nashville

Talent Board is the first non-profit research organization focused on quality candidate experience.

Did you know:

• 30% of candidates will share their negative candidate experience publically via their social networks
• 40% of candidates were still waiting for a response after they applied over 2+ months ago

SmartRecruiters is hyper focused on providing a great candidate experience, so we are very proud to be sponsoring the CandE Awards Gala on October 2nd in Nashville, Tenessee! Click here to learn more!

HR Technology Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas

October 10-13, 2017 – Las Vegas

The HR Technology Conference & Expo is one of the most anticipated events in the HR community and it will be back in Las Vegas from October 10-13, 2017. Join us as we gather with thousands of HR professionals to learn the latest HR best practices and rub shoulders with the industry trailblazers.

Visit SmartRecruiters at booth 1954 for live demos, a look at our new product features, interactive activities, photo booth, and hourly giveaways.

HR Tech World Amsterdam

October 24-25, 2017 – Amsterdam

In 5 years, HR Tech World attendee rates have grown by 1,500%. From October 24 – 25, 2017, we will be attending HR Tech World in Amsterdam. Attendees include CEOs and HR Leaders of the world’s fastest growing companies and the world’s leading enterprises, including AOL, Bersin by Deloitte, BlaBlaCar, and more.

Visit SmartRecruiters at booth 104 for hourly Apple Watch giveaways, live demos, and new product features, Don’t miss our Found and CEO, Jerome Ternynck, speaking on the main stage!

The content at Hiring Success 17 was the #1 rated component of the conference, and we are excited to announce the call for speakers for Hiring Success 18 is officially open!

We are looking to build the best agenda yet, filled with inspiring stories, thought leadership, and learning for our forward thinking community of talent acquisition leaders.

Come be part of the speaker community at Hiring Success 18, alongside talent acquisition experts, innovators, and business growth heroes who will share their stories with the best minds in recruiting.

We’re looking for high-quality, passionate speakers to share:

• Unique use cases, best practices, teachings and how-to’s
• Implementation strategies and success stories
• Best practices and lessons learned

What to include in your speaker application:

• Presentation description or outline of key talking points
• Identify what problem/issue you’re addressing and how to solve
• Top learning objectives and/or attendee takeaways

Deadline to submit your application is November 30, 2017. All applicants will be notified of their status in December. Selected speakers will receive a complimentary ticket to Hiring Success 18 and be included in the conference promotions. Have questions? Contact us at conference@smartrecruiters.com.

Don’t miss your chance to be a part of the next evolution of the world’s best recruiting conference at #hire18!

So many talent acquisition executives told us that Hiring Success 17 was one of the most inspirational, innovative, and engaging recruiting events they’ve attended. We’re energized and hard at work, creating an even more amazing event — Hiring Success 18. It will be held from March 12 – 14, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco.

Did you miss Hiring Success 17? Make sure to check out the HS17 highlights video.

Bigger and more impressive than ever, Hiring Success 18 will include:

• 5 breakout tracks with over 100 sessions covering the entire universe of recruiting topic
• More hands-on learning and interactive problem-solving sessions with peers
• Networking and social events to meet colleagues and experts from around the world

Sign up now to receive updates and a special letter you can use to justify your trip.

Be sure to book your calendars now for March 12 – 14, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. We hope to see you there!

Did you miss Hiring Success 17?

Check out the highlights in this video.

Keynote Speakers included

• Michael Ross, EVP of Human Resources at Visa
• Stacy Zapar, Founder of Tenfold
• Matt Charney, Executive Editor for RecruitingDaily
• Lou Adler, CEO of The Adler Group

Some of the topics discussed

• Women in Tech
• Closing the Gender Gap at All Ranks of the Business
• Diversity Sourcing and Hiring Practices
• Artificial Intelligence
• Optimizing the End-to-End Candidate Journey

If you weren’t at Hiring Success 17, you missed out on all this and more.

Don’t make that mistake again. Make sure you’re at Hiring Success 18 this March. We’ve got big plans – so watch this blog for updates.

What an excellent way to spend some great time in the Bay Area at HR Tech World last Tuesday through Thursday. We had a lot of fun at our booth, but it was outside our booth where many attendees and our guests had so much fun!

First, we were really excited to host HR Tech World’s Official After Party. Fun? Absolutely! But also a bit bittersweet because we were saying goodbye to our old office.

We also were honored that Visa’s Senior Director of Talent Acquisition Tara Strebe joined us for one of our Keynote addresses – sharing some of the excellent improvements Visa has enjoyed since going live with SmartRecruiters back in 2016.

And we treated many conference attendees to the thrill of sailing the Bay on our SmartRecruiters Extreme 40 Racing Catamaran.

It’s hard to believe so much happened over just two days, and these are only some of the highlights:

Great party and fun games, but a touch of nostalgia

About 300 people came by our offices for the HR Tech World’s Official After Party Tuesday evening. Our drink menu? It speaks for itself. Smartinis, HR Tonics, and Recruiting Slammers were the specialties of the evening.

I’m sure we’ll have plenty more Smarty Parties, but this was the last one at our old 56 Tehama Street offices. As I said, it was a nostalgic party in many ways, but after 5 great years (filling 10 million jobs!), we’ve now moved only a few blocks away to 225 Bush Street and expect to help fill many millions more jobs here.

An excellent keynote session, “Life After ATS”

On Wednesday, our VP of Product, Rebecca Carr, and Visa’s Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, Tara Strebe addressed the conference — hosting a jam-packed keynote session on hiring success. They demonstrated how today’s ATS solutions simply don’t come close to supporting support modern workflow, with Tara explaining why Visa ditched its old ATS.

Yes, it was an honor to participate, but it was exceptionally rewarding to hear Tara explain how Visa – with 15,000 employees worldwide – is now enjoying so many benefits so soon after the organization went live with SmartRecruiters in 2016. Key metrics she shared include:

• 214,000 new applications and 1,200 new hires
• Quick interview feedback thanks to high adoption worldwide – from an average of 2 weeks down to just 3 days!
• Creating, approving, and sending offer letters in an average of just 2 days – down from an average of one full week

Her advice to organizations evaluating new technologies? Take the opportunity to integrate recruiting, hiring, and HR solutions to simplify business logic and clean up legacy data. She also emphasized the importance of training, gaining executive buy-in, and keeping an open mind in considering new technologies.

Extreme sailing in delightful Bay Area weather

On Tuesday and Wednesday, we offered rides around the beautiful San Francisco Bay aboard our SmartRecruiters Extreme 40 Racing Catamaran. What gorgeous views!

Talent executive Angie Verros said her ride was “amazing” and Pamela O’Leary Global Diversity Lead at Ericsson called her experience the “highlight” of her first day at the conference.

Oh yeah, we did give away seven Apple watches to a few of those who stopped by our booth to view our demo. Now they can view their candidate pipelines, open job status, analytics, and more right from their wrist!

HR Tech World is a jam-packed 2-day event  for HR leaders with engaging speakers, breakout sessions, and networking events. But after all that learning, we think you need a break. Come celebrate after Day 1 of the conference and rub elbows with the best from the world of recruiting  at the official HR Tech World San Francisco conference after-party. You won’t want to miss it!

When is it? Wednesday, June 14th, 2017, 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM

What will be there? Dinner, drinks, music, entertainment and more!

Where is it? 56 Tehama Street, San Francisco, CA 94105

How to get there? Transportation from Fort Mason (the venue of HR Tech World San Francisco) if you RSVP now!

You deserve to kick back and have some fun, so make the most of the Smarty Party with our top three tips:

1. RSVP to the party.

RSVP now to reserve your spot at the Smarty Party as space is limited. You’ll save yourself the hassle of having to register at the door (or worse, being turned away due to the space filling up). If you’d like to bring a friend along to the party, encourage them to register ASAP as we’d love to see them too!

2. Get there early.
Smarty party veterans recommend arriving early. You’ll have a much easier time getting a drink, finding a seat, and securing a snack if you don’t wait until the place is packed.

3. Meet some new people.

What’s unique about the HR Tech World after-party is that it brings HR Tech professionals together from all around the world including thought leaders, analysts, and HR leaders. So try to meet at least a few new people as you attend each party and enjoy the networking opportunities

4. Have Fun.

The most important piece of advice is to have fun! Our party is unique in the sense it is not just a celebration of HR Tech World but also a celebration of our amazing customers and partners. We’re here to celebrate you.  You deserve it! So RSVP now!

With a diverse set of speakers, panels, and learning, there will be something for everyone to take back to their company from HR Tech World in San Francisco on June 14-15.

Here are some of the sessions we’re excited to attend!

Life After ATS

The world is changing. Finding and engaging qualified candidates means that organizations need to be more agile, mobile and automated. Your legacy Applicant Tracking System could prevent you from jumping ahead of your competition and driving your business forward.

In this session, Tara Strebe, Senior TA Director at Visa, and Rebecca Carr, VP of Product at SmartRecruiters, share how Visa prioritized candidate experience, hiring team platform, and platform agility by upgrading their legacy ATS.

You Are Who You Hire

You are who you hire. This truth applies to organizations, executives, managers and recruiters. Throughout history, all progress and success is because of great teams.

In this session, Jerome Ternynck, Founder and CEO of SmartRecruiters, shares research on how hiring impacts organizational performance and what it takes to do great hiring.

Hiring Is Success: Scaling a global organization like a startup

From teams to giant corporations, great hiring is the foundation for organizational success. Hiring success requires empowering and delighting three critical groups: candidates, recruiters and hiring managers. Candidates need a smooth way to apply and understand what the organization stands for, hiring teams need to be fully immersed in a transparent and high-quality process, and recruiters need to free up time for relationship building and strategic work.

In this session, Jerome Ternynck, Founder and CEO of SmartRecruiters, shares best practices for scaling global organizations in an agile way.

HR Tech World is turning out to be an awesome event and we can’t wait to see you there. There will be a lot of great speakers, and you can see the entire list here.

What? You don’t have a ticket yet? Hurry over to the registration site to make sure that you get your ticket! They are selling fast so don’t wait!

Don’t forget to schedule a demo with SmartRecruiters at Booth 302.

Insight, inspiration, vision and innovation define HR Tech World shows. HR Tech World San Francisco gathers the Who’s Who of the industry to share ideas on how to transform their organizations, identify the best technologies and ways to apply them for maximum impact and increased value. The show features Peter Hinssen, Karen Parkin, Gary Vaynerchuk, Pat Wadors, Francine Katsoudas, Josh Bersin, and more.

We’re extremely excited to be a part of HR Tech World in San Francisco from June 14-15, 2017 at booth 302. It’s going to be an amazing event with a killer lineup of speakers, and we know there’s going to be a lot of great things to do. More and more companies are joining the SmartRecruiters family, and we can’t wait to share them with you. In addition to that, we’ll have giveaways, speakers, and best practice talks.

Additionally, our CEO Jerome Ternynck will be speaking at the conference about “How to make hiring success measurable.” Jerome will demonstrate how TA functions can make contributions to the board room beyond cost and time metrics. We think this is a ‘can’t miss’ session.

Stop by booth 302, we’ll have plenty for you to explore on the SmartRecruiters platform. We’ll also have recruiting experts to help you think about different ways to improve hiring in your company or organization.

If you’d like to schedule an appointment, you can do that here.

And if you’re not attending HR Tech World in San Francisco, but are interested in learning more about SmartRecruiters, you can request a demo here!