Helping Veterans Get Hired with Skills Matching

Finding a job after their military service affects nearly 200,000 veterans every year, and only one in four veterans have a job lined up after leaving the armed forces, according to the Pew Research Center.  

Navy veteran Robyn J. Grable has launched Veterans ASCEND, an AI-powered talent sourcing platform for hiring vetrans.

The company’s Career AI Talent Equalizer (CATE) uses proprietary algorithms to translate a candidate’s experience into skills and then match those skills to the employer’s needs, bringing together candidates and job openings that belong together. This process removes the need for a traditional resume which is a major barrier for many entering the job market or shifting careers. 

TOPICS DISCUSSED

• What are The pitfalls of the post-military job search  

• Why skills-based hiring is the right way to do hiring, and how it benefits everyone 

• Origins of your business and How CATE is career matching at a 95% success rate 

• Walk us through how it works from a seeker perspective and then how the employer uses it.

• Cost?

• Why the lean economy makes it more important than ever for organizations to rethink their hiring practices 

• Other hiring tips for hiring former service members?

• Whats the marketing plan? How will you attract veterans

• Target customer?

• Success story?

What's new at Indeed with EVP Maggie Hulce

Maggie Hulce EVP, GM of Enterprise at Indeed.com joined me for a quick discussion at the recent HR Tech Conference in Las Vegas. (15 min listen)

TOPICS DISCUSSED

• Whats new at Indeed?

• How many people is the US visit the site each month?

• Trends with job postings?

• Indeed apply: how may employers choose that vs company website?

• You recently also added salary ranges to all your listings, how has that been received by seekers and employers?

• Where does Indeed go from here…you have been #1 in job search where do you think the company is in 5 years?

• Any new features coming up?

• You have an event coming up in NY? —> Indeed Future Works

Recruiting Beyond the Resume

It’s time to move past these boring hiring techniques and present your full self as an organization. You need to not just personalize the words, you need to personalize the medium. And that goes both ways - how you communicate and how you ask your candidates to respond.

This roundtable features Vanessa Raath - The Talent Hunter. We’re going to talk about how to get creative with candidates in both your outreach and your expectations of their response to you - with a big focus on the use of video. A lot of us have gotten used to video communication over the last two years so we should definitely be using it more.