Hiring Solutions & Resources
Recruitment process & strategy
Develop your entire recruitment strategy and process from the bottom up with the help of these resources.

How to welcome a new hire
The first day at a new job normally involves trainings, meetings and paperwork. But if you only stick to formal tasks and docume...

6 ways to build an employee referral program that works
An employee referral program can be a superior recruiting tool: referred candidates are typically cheaper and faster to hire and...

How to develop a recruitment plan
A successful recruitment plan is more than just numbers. Vacancies and recruiting budgets form the basis of recruitment plans, b...

How to conduct a skills gap analysis
Here’s how to conduct a skills gap analysis: Step 1: Plan You can perform a skills gap analysis on two levels: Individual: You c...

Understand your Workable hiring data with Tableau
If you’re new to recruiting reports, working on changes for the coming year, or just looking for a quick refresher, see ou...

The limits of euphemism
As individuals it is likely that we have differing degrees of tolerance for being spoken to indirectly. And yet most of us are e...

How recruiters and hiring managers can work together
Recruiters and hiring managers share a common goal: finding great candidates as quickly as possible. In a perfect world, their c...

How to explain your structured interview process to candidates
There’s scientific consensus that structured interviews are better hiring tools than unstructured interviews. They’re more objec...

Making Workable mobile
One of our latest challenges was to help our users hire-on-the-go by taking Workable’s ATS and making it fully mobile. I was ask...

Sourcing on Google: Boolean search for recruiters
Most of us only use ‘Google-lite.’ We open Google, type in a phrase and hit enter. That’s fine, most of the time. But, not for r...

The best email tools for recruiters
If you want to be a good recruiter, you should have spot-on digital communication and organizational skills. Otherwise, you’ll l...

What to measure in employee performance reviews
Measurements are an object of common managerial proverbs: “you can’t improve, what you can’t measure” and “what gets measured, g...