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Building The Perfect Hiring Experience for Candidates

Recruiting Daily

For all the ink being spilled in praise of all things “candidate experience,” the candidate experience is still pretty bleak, primarily because the experience can be boiled down to three simple steps: You apply, you wait with no information and you hope for the best. And so are major airline reservation systems.

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How Delta Is Working to Improve Its Candidate Experience by Designing for the Disappointed

Linkedin Talent Blog

In a 2016 interview with NPR’s Marketplace, Delta CEO Ed Bastian was asked to describe his job in five words. For Jennifer Carpenter , vice president of talent acquisition at Delta, this answer also holds the secret to an exceptional candidate experience : caring. An informed candidate is the best candidate,” Jennifer says. “In

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SilkRoad Connections 2018 Agenda Spotlight: Talent Acquisition

Silkroad

SilkRoad’s Top Sources of Hire Report is back with an analysis of millions of applications, and hundreds of thousands of interviews and hires. You’ll hear about: – % of Total Hires & Interviews by Top Sources. – How to create and communicate a continuous on-brand experience.

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Pounding the Pavement: Experiencing the Candidate Experience As A Recruiter

Recruiting Daily

It helped me to be in the shoes of the person in the drive-through when ordering some Wendy’s or the overloaded airline hostess struggling to make a bunch of cranky people happy. Well, I had been sending 2 resumes a day and getting about 1 interview a week. Recruiting Soles: A Marathon, Not A Sprint. Still sucked, even though I knew.

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How to Prevent the Looming Travel Breakdown

The Staffing Stream

Like any market breakdown, it’s driven by multiple factors, but one phenomenon seems to be the chief culprit: During the pandemic, airlines and the government bodies that oversee their transportation infrastructure laid off staff due to anticipated drops in demand. Support flexible shifts and hours.

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SHIFT BLOG SERIES: LESSONS IN EMPLOYER BRAND FROM DELTA’S CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

exaqueo

Delta Air Lines was the third largest airline in the U.S. At that time, US Airways and United Airlines had already declared bankruptcy, leaving nearly half of the commercial aviation industry’s capacity under bankruptcy court’s oversight ( CNN Money ). It was a turbulent time for airlines. Fast-forward to the present day.

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Poor Career Websites Are Actually a Diversity Issue

Eightfold

There has been a tremendous amount of talk the last decade or so about the “candidate experience.” This has centered around things like improving corporate career websites, giving feedback to job candidates not hired, and speeding up the hiring process. The appearance of some career sites has improved.