Symphony Talent Blog

You’ve undoubtedly heard about the importance of creating a seamless candidate experience — we’re certainly advocates of it around here. That’s because it’s essential to attracting, engaging and ultimately hiring quality talent that advocates for you, strengthens your EVP and boosts your ROI.

We’re also firm believers in the fact that you have to create that experience with a strategic partner, one who knows what it takes to facilitate an uninterrupted experience between your career website and ATS.

Your employer brand exists whether you like it or not - it’s simply the reputation you have as an employer. And, it directly impacts your corporate reputation too. It’s everything to do with the employees you have — and hope to retain — as well as those you seek to attract. Left unmanaged, your employer brand is left in the hands (voices) of your candidates, employees and is everything that is said about you as an employer in the outside world. 

January may have felt like a year, but that’s because it's the time that everyone - organizations included - wants to set new goals and put a plan in place for the year ahead. In the world of talent acquisition that means reflecting on the previous year, analyzing your data and taking a step back to look at what’s going on in the world around you. Are there hard-to-fill positions that last year’s strategy didn’t fill? Did you meet your seasonal hiring goals? Were you able to increase your retention rates and keep your employees engaged? And of course, what was the impact on the organization’s bottom line?