hiring hacks: how evernote enhanced its technical recruiting process

Hiring Hacks: How Evernote Enhanced Its Technical Recruiting Process

What is Hiring Hacks? The hiring hacks series is presented by

Greenhouse •Greenhouse is an end-to-end recruiting optimization

platform, helping companies get better at recruiting

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Hiring Hacks Series

Each webinar in the series focuses on one strategy or tool that helps measurably improve the recruiting process and outcomes

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• In this one, Greenhouse partnered with HackerRank to share how Evernote enhanced its technical recruiting process by using CodeChallenges

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Kelly Grossart Lead Recruiter, Evernote

With 8+ years of experience - I specialize in sourcing, recruiting, training, leadership development and program management.

In this webinar I’ll share how the Evernote recruiting team has enhanced the interview experience for candidates and hiring managers, rebuilt the technical interview plan, and leveraged HackerRank and Greenhouse to find and hire top technical talent.

Evernote’s Growth

• 400 Employees Total- Hired 159 new employees in 2014- Qualified 20,000+ applications- 2-3 on-site interviews per day - 13-14 hires per month

Evernote’s Plan

To scale, we needed to make some changes:

- Build a better partnership with our hiring teams- Create an interview process that drives results- Integrate additional resources to attract talent

PartnershipRecruiting is not a service, it’s a partnership.

We needed to identify innovative tools that help our product teams, select, recruit, interview and hire the best talent in the world.

The Interview Process ● We needed to improve the interview process both for

candidate experience and hiring results. ● And to get buy-in for a new process, we utilized data to

show improvements in productivity.

Example:

● 2 different interview tracks, same role● Quantified the data and found where we lost

candidates, how long they were in the process, etc.● Found that the updated process cut hiring time in 1/2

We Needed More Resources

CodeSprints● Sponsorships - 4 hires, 2000+

candidates● Evernote Example: http://goo.gl/oYtK3a

Online CodeChallenges● Thousands of active and passive candidate

responses

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Get in Touch

Kelly Grossart kgrossart@evernote.c

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Tom Nikl tom@hackerrank.co

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