Searchlight-ing Hiring: Recent Episodes

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The job search looks drastically different than it did even a few months ago. In this webinar, we get a behind the scenes look for candidates from candidates who are navigating this right now, with advice from supporters and recruiters.  

Join Carly Donovan (Recruiting Manager, Airtable & recent job candidate), Allison Silber (Product Manager, Zeus Living), Hope Weatherford (Head of Talent Attraction, InVision), and Kerry Wang (CEO, Searchlight) in discussion about:

• The Current State of Hiring

• Best Practices and Common Mistakes in Job Hunting

• Audience Q&A

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Last Friday, we hosted a roundtable with Dave Gilbert, VP Talent at Gitlab, Evan Connor, Head of Homes Recruiting at Airbnb, and Fadi Hindi, Head of People Operations and Strategy at Udemy, to hear their perspectives on talent teams and hiring in these unprecedented and difficult times. If you missed it, you can listen here!

Here were our top 10 takeaways

• People first, humanity first. Double down on empathy. Bring your values as a company front and center.
• How to create feedback loops to rapidly improve as you implement processes for the first time.
• How to stay connected with passive candidates.
• Take time to improve your systems and train your team. Double down on diversity, global marketplaces, and finding talent pools.
• Revisit your interview questions, and think hard about the intention of each question. Ask, “What am I really trying to learn about the candidate with this question?”
• How to make sure your virtual interviews have structure, and that every interviewer knows what to focus on.
• How to dig deeper in pre-briefs and debriefs.
• How to think strategically about communications with candidates, interviewers and your recruiting team.
• Double down on documentation and transparency.
• Examine all your platforms and tools and make sure you’re getting ROI