Tips on Candidate Experience Surveys, using AI in Ashby, and professional development

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

Insights Corner: Maximizing Candidate Experience Surveys

Candidate experience comes up daily in our conversations with talent leaders as a crucial factor in their hiring process. In a Talent Trends Report last year, we analyzed 67.4K survey requests and 11.9K responses. The report offers valuable advice from our customers on maximizing the value of experience surveys.

For example, Notion automates survey sends with a 3-day delay. Cuyler Hirata, Head of Recruiting Operations & Analytics at Notion notes:

“Our mentality here is that, even if a candidate is rejected, we aim to personalize the rejection notes instead of merely sending an automated email. Delaying the survey by three days gives us time to communicate with candidates and not throw them off or hear about a potential rejection from a survey automation.”

For more insights into how Ashby Analytics enables recruiting at Notion, check out our blog!

Ashby AI in Action

One of our main goals with AI in Ashby is to release features that are assistive in nature, giving you time back. Our AI-powered candidate search is a perfect example of this. Just ask Katie Lucas from Buildout , who recently shared how this feature saved her from what would have previously been a time consuming mistake.

Interested in seeing how Ashby’s AI empowered features can accelerate your recruiting function? Book a demo with a member of our team!?

Noteworthy feature launches:

• Upload custom offer letters
• Sync historical emails with candidates
• Bulk import permission for Elevated Access users

NaKeisha Martinez on the Offer Accepted Podcast

In this episode of Offer Accepted, host Shannon Ogborn welcomes NaKeisha M. , a seasoned talent acquisition expert with 18 years in the space. NaKeisha emphasizes the importance of professional development, discussing the role of managers in fostering team growth and success. She highlights the value of one-on-one meetings and "teach-backs" to align personal aspirations with business goals and enhance knowledge retention. This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to improve the way they support professional development within their team.?

Recruiting Takes from Around the Web

• Measuring impact of a first recruiter: Reginald J. Williams shares an insightful LinkedIn post on key metrics and tips for evaluating your first recruiter's performance.
• Embracing skills-based hiring: Fast Company dives into four steps to proactively helping hiring managers embrace skills-focused hiring by addressing risk perceptions.
• State of Compensation: Carta 's H1 2024 report touches on trends from hiring and headcount to compensation geography.

Partnership Updates

Our Partnerships team continued extending our integration functionality. There are now 130+ integrations in the Integrations Marketplace, and the list is growing weekly! Here are the ones we’ve added since our last update:

• ChartHop [Post Hire] – ChartHop is a dynamic People Operations Platform that connects and visualizes all your people data to empower your organization through insights, alignment, and action.
• CandorIQ [Candidate Experience]? – CandorIQ is the modern way to scale and manage your people spend. Through one easy-to-use, integrated platform, automate and simplify your headcount planning and compensation management.
• Brainner [Other]? – Brainner is a resume screening software that helps organizations save up to 90% on screening tasks, while hiring the best talent in record time. Instead of making decisions, Brainner helps recruiters and hiring managers with the tools to make smarter and faster decisions.
• Cartha [Other]? – Cartha is a Headcount Planning platform for mid-sized companies that integrates natively into core people systems to ensure all workforce data is tracked in a single source of truth.
• Hallo [Assessment]? – Hallo is an AI-powered language assessment platform that evaluates proficiency levels of your applicants according to CEFR standards. Get results in under 10 minutes with over 50 languages to facilitate more effective international hiring.
• Adway [Sourcing] – Adway's Talent Attraction Suite automates the creation and distribution of job ads on social media, building relevant talent pools and ensuring they discover your vacancies and employer brand.

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:

Head of Talent Acquisition at Gorgias (Toronto, Canada)

Head of People at Notable (San Mateo, CA, USA)

Head of Talent at Junction (formerly Vital) (London/Remote, UK Only)

Senior Recruiter at Siena AI (Various Cities in USA/Canada)

Founding Recruiter at Numeric (San Francisco, CA, USA)

Head of People at CoinTracker (Remote, USA)