Embracing fractional recruiting, resources on talent sourcing, and a 3x rise in applications

Welcome to the fourth edition of Ashby Talent Digest, a community newsletter surfacing recruiting insights, podcasts, events, and more from across the web.

The Future of Talent: Embracing Fractional Recruiting

In this compelling episode of the Offer Accepted podcast, ?? Natalie Stones , founder of Talent Refinery and Talent Collective , shares the swiftly changing dynamics of talent acquisition. Natalie brings attention to the:

• rising significance of fractional work and its influence on devising strategic recruitment functions
• critical need for adaptability and inventiveness in talent strategies, leading to an engaging dialogue on the prospective trends in recruitment

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Talent Sourcing as a Research Function

In our latest podcast episode, our own Elizabeth Smith discusses why sourcing teams should shift to seeing themselves as a research function. She:

• explores innovative sourcing concepts, such as market mapping and leveraging cross-disciplinary insights as keys to sourcing success
• shares insights from her experience, emphasizing the importance of tailored hiring approaches that align with the specific needs of roles and industries

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New Data: Applications per job have tripled in 2024

Around the time January was wrapping up, we couldn’t help but notice a massive rise in weekly applications per job opening across both business and technical roles. This refreshed data from our original Applications per Job Trends Report reveals:

• 3x growth in job applications per business role at 207%
• 2.6x growth in job applications per technical role at 161%

Upcoming Event - Market Mapping in Action: Tactical Strategies for Talent Sourcing Excellence

Don't miss our upcoming webinar with Elizabeth Smith , our in-house Ashby sourcing expert. She'll unpack the critical role of market mapping for sourcers, providing a walkthrough example that showcases its strategic value and actionable tactics. This session is a prime opportunity to sharpen your recruiting methods.

Date: Tue March 5th at 9:00AM PT/12PM ET/5PM GMT

Attend: Register here to save your spot

Recruiting Takes from Around the Web

• Quality of Hire: How to Measure & Meaningfully Improve Through Top of Funnel Pipeline : From the Great Resignation to mass layoffs, the talent pool in recent years has gone from nearly dried up to overflowing with talent availability. This turbulent environment puts Quality of Hire (QoH) more into focus than ever before, and this blog walks through a variety of strategies for improving.
• Crafting Inclusive Job Descriptions: 5 Strategies for Attracting Diverse Talent : Recruiting Daily provides great insights into how creating inclusive job descriptions can help attract representative talent pools and impact your organization beyond box-checking for DEI initiatives.?
• 6 Recruitment Tactics For Staying Competitive During Hiring Slowdowns : These insights from Forbes show that even during slower hiring periods, there is still work to be done for talent teams in implementing a recruiting strategy that is competitive long-term.
• How to Address Hiring Tension After Public Layoffs : Many companies have had to make difficult decisions to reduce their workforce, but as a result, Hired is predicting for 2024 that TA teams could be facing the downstream burden of this.?

New on Ashby

We recently launched Quality of Hire Surveys in Ashby to help understand and measure the impact of new hires so talent teams can recruit and build the best teams possible.

These are surveys you set up and automatically send to hiring managers on a customizable sequence to assess new hires. The surveys are designed to be lightweight to ensure hiring manager participation and customizable so you can easily capture the new-hire assessment data that matters to you.

See all the details in the blog post and read up on why we’re excited to provide an actionable approach to getting started with quality of hire.?

Other noteworthy additions:

• Set application deadlines for job postings
• Automate activities in interview plans (send email, scheduling link, assessment, etc)
• Customizable interview reminders for candidates and interviewers

Ashby Partnership Updates

Our Partnerships team continued extending our integration functionality. There are now 115+ integrations in the Integrations Marketplace , and the list is growing weekly! Here are the ones we’ve added since our last update:

• DreamTeam simplifies team management and boosts performance with advanced analytics and communication tools. The integration with Ashby automates new hire data imports, eliminating manual steps and human error.
• Woody - Product Design Jobs is a job board that specializes in creative product and design roles. This integration enables you to post your roles directly from Ashby.
• With Speak_ , recruiters can sync their jobs and candidates to the Speak_ platform. Recruiters can evaluate every candidate for any role using customizable signals.

Check out Ashby University and Ashby Release Notes for more information about these features, and reach out to [email protected] with any questions and feedback.?

Ashby Customers Hiring for People Ops/Recruiting Roles

Looking for a new role? Here are open jobs hosted on Ashby that are live as of this newsletter release:

People Operations Manager at EvenUp (Remote, USA)

Recruiter at Crusoe (Denver, CO, USA)

Technical Recruiter at Fieldguide (SF, CA or Remote, USA)

Head of People Operations at Rula (Remote, USA)

Head of People Operations & Experience at Paddle (Remote, Netherlands)

GTM Recruiter at Gorgias (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Head of People at PermitFlow (Remote, USA or Remote, Canada)