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As a fledgling startup besotted with playbooks, there is a constant gripe amongst us about the lack of one in a crucial growth lever – recruiting. Witnessing the internet being littered with established playbooks on sales, marketing, customer success and everything in between, the absence of a Recruitment “Holy Grail” was a gaping void.The good folks at SquadRun (we are ...

At DoSelect, we have been focused on rethinking technical assessments. We realized that the traditional “coding tests” approach was ignoring the most crucial aspect associated with a codebase -The inability to gauge how a candidate’s skill-sets align with the requirements of a job role.Today’s candidates rank interview experience as one of the large motivators for them to ...

The interview process can invariably be perceived as a science of sorts - entailing discovery and requiring understanding at each step. From discovering a candidate’s technical proficiencies, striking up conversations that explore their breadth of knowledge and work, and unearthing their primary and secondary technology inclinations, it requires one to observe sharply, and experiment a lot along the way. One ...

If you believe certain urban legends, Leonardo da Vinci was the first person in recorded human history to have crafted a professional résumé. Of course, he didn’t call it a résumé at the time. He just wanted to convey his usefulness to the Duke of Milan during the critical times of war and peace. Little did he know that ...

This is part II of our series on helping recruitment teams get the microscopic fill of the mechanics behind building an EVP. If you missed part I, have your fill here.In the “Vocation of Man”, Fichte said that “you could not remove a single grain of sand from its place without thereby …changing something throughout all parts of the ...

Hasn't there been at least one instance with an open role where your sourcing chops have stared at you, blank? You follow the prescribed norm - dive into your ATS, drop InMails, sponsor that LinkedIn post and email active candidates on job boards - only to hit a wall with all the outreach that you trigger.For moments like these, DoSelect ...

It's that time of the year again.Like the advent of autumn blooming buds, Tech HR has been the quintessential autumn for many a budding HR Tech solutions in the country. If there is one event where the fraternity and sorority congregate to celebrate the confluence of HR and technology, it is Tech HR - and DoSelect will be in ...

The recruitment community is tightly knit amongst the leaders, and leaders only. Their talks range from strategies to metrics that change the face of hiring in organisations. The surprising disturbing thing is only a handful talk about the recruiters who are getting their hands dirty while implementing the said changes.X-Ray Recruiting is a mission to change that. We want ...

During a recent, interesting conversation, a talent acquisition executive voiced a profound opinion that has since, stayed with us. “An organization’s Employee Value Proposition comes to exist the moment an organization is born”, he remarked. The challenge is not creating an EVP at birth; 85% talent acquisition executives at established GICs rue the absence of EVPs, altogether. They are ...

This is part II of our series on helping recruitment teams halve their “time to hire” by building candidate personas. If you missed part I, have your fill here.“Treat candidates like customers”Prophecies, oh dear prophecies – what does not come as a prelude to prophecies is the realization that there are invariably three stooges to them – the good, the ...