We had the opportunity to attend SmartRecruiter’s first user conference in San Francisco, held April 10th till `13th at the Grand Hyatt on Stockton. The conference is well attended with over 500 attendees, good partner representation and influencer selection.
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So, look at my musings on the event here: (if the video doesn’t show up, check here)
No time to watch – here is the 1-2 slide condensation (if the slide doesn’t show up, check here):
Want to read on? Here you go:
No time to watch – here is the 1-2 slide condensation (if the slide doesn’t show up, check here):
Want to read on? Here you go:
Always tough to pick the takeaways – but here are my Top 3:
Global calls, SmartRecruiters picks up the phone– The war for talent is no longer local, but global and that means for vendors that they have to become more global as talent acquisition professionals need global access to talent. SmartRecruiters has done well here – with offices now in London and Paris, with a new one just opened in Berlin with the recent acquisition of JobSpotting (see more here). And customers are more global, too – e.g. German industrial giant Bosch.
Mobile rules, SmartRecruiters delivers mass hiring– People are more and more using mobile, so it is important to mobilize more enterprise capability. The new functionality of SmartRecruiters is to allow ad hoc local campaigns, for mass hiring, e.g. campus recruiting. More capabilities will come to the native SmartRecruiters native mobile apps.
AI is the trend, SmartRecruiters unveils candidate score – What users always wanted- sift through the sea of applicants and find the best fit is finally becoming real. SmartRecruiters starts with a score, a basic beginning that already provides value, but most importantly is an easy to understand metric that should take the fear from users of using “AI”. More importantly more is coming from SmartRecruiters, with the JobSpotting acquisition.
On the concern side, SmartRecruiters, even though running at full speed, will have to keep running and maybe running faster. Not only with more AI and more mobile support and more global expansion, but also may have to consider more of a functional footprint. Exciting and good times ahead for SmartRecruiters customers.
But for now, good progress by SmartRecruiters – always great to be part of a first user conference and first analyst summit.
More on Recruiting
Want to learn more? Checkout the Storify collection below (if it doesn’t show up – check here).
Find more coverage on the Constellation Research website here and checkout my magazine on Flipboard and my YouTube channel here.
Global calls, SmartRecruiters picks up the phone– The war for talent is no longer local, but global and that means for vendors that they have to become more global as talent acquisition professionals need global access to talent. SmartRecruiters has done well here – with offices now in London and Paris, with a new one just opened in Berlin with the recent acquisition of JobSpotting (see more here). And customers are more global, too – e.g. German industrial giant Bosch.
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| SmartRecruiter CEO Ternynck opens |
Mobile rules, SmartRecruiters delivers mass hiring– People are more and more using mobile, so it is important to mobilize more enterprise capability. The new functionality of SmartRecruiters is to allow ad hoc local campaigns, for mass hiring, e.g. campus recruiting. More capabilities will come to the native SmartRecruiters native mobile apps.
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| 3 Pillars of Hiring Success per SmartRecruiters |
AI is the trend, SmartRecruiters unveils candidate score – What users always wanted- sift through the sea of applicants and find the best fit is finally becoming real. SmartRecruiters starts with a score, a basic beginning that already provides value, but most importantly is an easy to understand metric that should take the fear from users of using “AI”. More importantly more is coming from SmartRecruiters, with the JobSpotting acquisition.
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| Analysts were allowed to use SmartRecruiters software |
MyPOV
Always good to be part of very first analyst event, here a user conference. Four years after the pivot to enterprise software (from Freemium software, with payment on hiring event), SmartRecruiters has considerable momentum with 700+ paying customers. Global is making a mark both in product and go to market, with offices opened in London, Paris and Berlin.On the concern side, SmartRecruiters, even though running at full speed, will have to keep running and maybe running faster. Not only with more AI and more mobile support and more global expansion, but also may have to consider more of a functional footprint. Exciting and good times ahead for SmartRecruiters customers.
But for now, good progress by SmartRecruiters – always great to be part of a first user conference and first analyst summit.
More on Recruiting
- Musings - How Technology Innovation fuels Recruiting and disrupts the Laggards - read here
- Musings - What is the future of recruiting? Read here
- Why all the attention to recruiting? Read here.
Want to learn more? Checkout the Storify collection below (if it doesn’t show up – check here).
Find more coverage on the Constellation Research website here and checkout my magazine on Flipboard and my YouTube channel here.