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We teamed up with our partners at ERE to host a real-talk webinar on how leading talent acquisition teams are hiring faster, improving candidate quality, and elevating the hiring experience—all without burning out their teams or blowing the budget.

With tighter budgets and leaner teams, TA leaders are under pressure to do more with less. This session explores the practical, proven strategies helping organisationsorganizations simplify hiring workflows, cut back on manual work, and connect with better-fit candidates—while still keeping the experience human.

You’ll learn:

1. How to scale hiring without overwhelming your team

2. Which automation tools are saving time without sacrificing quality

3. How targeted engagement helps surface better-fit talent faster

4. Ways to deliver personalisedpersonalized candidate experiences at scale

5. How real-time insights lead to smarter, faster decisions

Speakers:

1. Sarah Forbes, SVP of Sales for North America, PageUp

2. Brian Fink, Managing Partner, The ReWork Group

3. Keirsten Greggs, Founder & CEO, TRAP Recruiter

As HR teams look to drive transformation and improve talent management, investing in the right HR Tech solutions can be the key to success. However, crafting a solid business case for technology investment is often easier said than done.

In our webinar Andrea McCartney, Customer Account Executive, PageUp, Sherri Reese, AVP Talent Management, Michigan State University, Jane Gray, Sr. Director of Talent Acquisition, University of North Texas walk you through our step-by-step framework to help align your tech strategy with broader business goals, articulate the specific challenges you’re aiming to solve, and demonstrate the ROI of your HR Tech investment. They also share firsthand examples from HR leaders who have successfully navigated the process of securing buy-in for HR Tech solutions, providing you with real-world insights on overcoming challenges, aligning technology with business objectives, and achieving measurable success.

By watching this webinar, you’ll gain:

• A clear understanding of how to build a business case that speaks the language of executives.
• Insights into how HR Tech can address critical HR challenges.
• Access to a detailed worksheet to guide your own planning process.

Watch today to set your HR department up for success with the right tech solutions.

HR technology is more critical than ever in driving efficiencies, improving employee experiences, and delivering data-driven insights. However, when it comes to securing investment, HR leaders face the challenge of articulating the value of these solutions to senior executives and demonstrating a clear return on investment (ROI).

Watch this webinar where Andrea McCartney, Customer Account Executive, PageUp moderates an insightful panel discussion featuring Rhea Dever, VP – People, Culture, & Wellbeing, Northern Michigan University; Thomas Bunton, CTO, Kansas State University; and Gokhan Turgut, CFO, PageUp. They share strategies for building a strong business case for HR tech and demonstrate its ROI.

You will learn:

• How to align HR tech investments with broader business goals, including improving productivity, reducing costs, and enhancing employee retention.
• Key metrics and KPIs that matter when measuring ROI, including both quantitative and qualitative results.
• Best practices for engaging stakeholders across HR, IT, and finance departments to gain buy-in for HR tech initiatives.
• Real-world examples and case studies showcasing the tangible impact of HR

This webinar will provide the tools and insights you need to confidently build a plan to optimize your workforce with the right technology.

Today’s jobseekers expect instant access to everything they need—and your careers site is no exception. It’s no longer enough for your site to be just ‘good’; it needs to stand out and convert top talent. So, how do you elevate your careers site from ordinary to exceptional?

In this webinar, presented by Kate Mosel, Manager Talent and Capability at IGO and Fiona Moreton, Chief Product Officer, PageUp Group you’ll hear tips, tricks and results of implementing an award-winning careers site, focusing on leveraging employee advocates, authentic EVP, and employer branding.

Watch now to learn:

• Best practices in developing your careers site
• How to feature your employees as authentic brand advocates
• The importance of showcasing your EVP and employer brand
• How your careers site can be the ultimate tool in reaching targeted talent segments

In today’s competitive job market, providing an exceptional candidate experience is crucial for attracting and retaining top talent. Watch our webinar featuring Shannon Leftwich, Talent Acquisition Manager, Kansas State University and Haley Ruddell, Product Specialist, PageUp where they share how Kansas State has worked to optimiseoptimize their candidate experience enhancing the overall recruitment journey.

In this session they discuss:

• UtilisingUtilizing candidate feedback to drive changes to the recruitment processes.
• Showcasing your employer brand through recruitment marketing and onboarding systems to authentically represent your organisationorganization, creating a compelling narrative that engages candidates from the outset.
• Leveraging technology to streamline the candidate experience, ensuring a smooth transition from application through onboarding.

Whether you’re a seasoned HR professional or just starting out, this webinar will equip you with the tools and knowledge to create a more engaging and efficient candidate experience. Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your recruitment strategy and set your organisationorganization apart in the talent marketplace! 

Watch today to take the first step towards optimisingoptimizing your candidate experience!

Presenters:

• Shannon Leftwich, Talent Acquisition Manager, Kansas State University​
• Haley Ruddell, Product Specialist, PageUp

Traditional recruitment methods must be improved in today’s highly competitive talent landscape. OrganisationsOrganizations are reimagining their recruitment strategies to stand out in a crowded marketplace to ensure they’re building a strong employer brand, engaging passive candidates, and driving higher-quality applications. 

Watch our recent webinar with Renee Grigor, University of Central Florida, and Andrea McCartney, PageUp. They provided a comprehensive overview of how UCF has implemented PageUp’s innovative Recruitment Marketing solution to attract, engage, and nurture top-tier candidates in a competitive job market.

In this session, they discussed:

1. Enhanced Candidate Experience: Learn about the tailored strategies UCF used to create engaging and personalisedpersonalized candidate experiences, fostering a positive employer brand and increasing candidate satisfaction.

2. Building a Business Case: Learn how UCF was able to build a business case, find a budget, and get approval to move forward with recruitment marketing.

3. Data-Driven Insights: Explore how UCF utilisesutilizes PageUp’s analytics and reporting features to gain valuable insights into recruitment metrics, enabling data-driven decisions and continuous improvement.

4. Success Stories and Best Practices: Hear real-world examples of successful campaigns and initiatives that have significantly improved UCF’s recruitment outcomes and practical tips for other institutions looking to leverage PageUp.

Watch this webinar today so you can learn from UCF’s experience and explore how you can achieve similar success in your organisationorganization

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Located in one of the most competitive talent markets in the country, the University of Central Florida is fighting for talent head-on by implementing recruitment marketing and expanding its proactive recruiting team. Hear how Renee Grigor, Assistant VP Talent Management, and her team plan to use PageUp Recruitment Marketing’s Automated Workflows and CRM functionality to increase the productivity and efficiency of their recruiters, to enable more qualified applications flowing into their Workday ATS and into the hands of their departments.

By implementing Recruitment Marketing, UW Madison saw over 30% uptick in submitted applications compared to previous years, but knew there was more to do to ensure they were seen as an employer of choice. Their team kicked off the #WorkWithBucky initiative to increase brand awareness and ensure that they’re front of mind. Listen to Erica Fini-Marten, Outreach, and Sourcing Specialist, discuss how they are using recruitment marketing to capture, engage, and nurture prospective candidates in partnership with UW Madison Athletics at sporting events on campus.

Listen to Lauren E. Shepard, HRIS Analyst, who discusses how she was able to leverage PageUp Recruitment Marketing to completely overhaul their careers site without any web design or programming skills. She took advantage of PageUp’s self-service career site and content management system to increase candidate engagement and more powerfully promote their employer brand as one of the leading medical universities in the country.

When facing ever-evolving candidate and employee expectations, and tackling challenging employment market conditions it’s imperative that HR and Talent professionals think strategically and holistically about their sourcing and retention strategies.

In this webinar, Aman Singh, General Manager Human Resources at Ability WA walks us through their recruitment strategy from sourcing through to retention, digging into how Ability WA is:

• Diversifying their sourcing strategy to reach their target market
• Implementing processes to manage high volume applications
• Using technology to create a positive candidate experience
• Amplifying their EVP to attract top talent

 

In today’s hiring landscape, metrics and analytics are becoming more embedded in everyday business practices; organisationsorganizations are investing more resources to ensure they have access to and an understanding of the key data that is affecting their strategic outcomes. Leadership wants a deeper understanding of why an outcome occurred and an ability to predict what will happen next.

Implementing data-driven decision-making is allowing talent teams to enjoy longer-term planning, smarter resource allocation, and superior recruiting outcomes.

In this webinar, Jordan Johnson, Associate Provost of Business Affairs and Analysis, from the University of Alabama shares how they’ve been able to utiliseutilize PageUp’s Advanced Analytics functionality to provide customisablecustomizable reporting across the organisationorganization saving them time and resources.

By having access to highly interactive and customisablecustomizable visualisationsvisualizations the University of Alabama has been able to focus on the data and metrics directly impacting their specific goals and challenges. This provides transparency between executives, hiring managers, search committees, Deans, and other key stakeholders. Thus allowing them to quickly and easily get a snapshot of their candidates, statuses, compliance metrics, time to fill, demographic data, and more.

Watch this webinar today to learn more.

Speakers:

In the final instalment of our Employer Branding webinar series James Ellis shares how to develop a business case to gain stakeholder buy-in. Learn how to showcase the impact that your employer branding strategy can have on the bottom line and how to effectively justify your business need, summarisesummarize your key metrics for success and outline plans for the future.

Create a compelling employer brand story to proactively attract talent.

Planning and delivering a content strategy can be daunting —especially if you don’t have a marketing background! But it doesn’t have to be hard. This webinar, presented by Employer Brand expert James Ellis, will share how talent acquisition professionals can create —and scale— an authentic content strategy tailored to your organisationorganization and resources.

A great career site can help you engage the best candidates. A poor one can cost you applicants. So how do you get it right? 

While every company has a unique employer brand story, the foundations of a great career site remain the same. In this session, we’ll take a deep dive into the core characteristics across all high-performing career sites. Backed by research and real-world examples from TCU and other leading institutions, weshare the essential components you ought to include in your approach. 

During the session, you’ll learn:

• What key structural elements are needed to increase career site performance

• The metrics that really matter in your sourcing strategy

• Actionable ways to optimize your site to drive more high-quality applications 

• And more

Watch today to learn how to turn your career site into a high-converting, application-generating machine.

Learn how to get the most out of your companies careers site in this first webinar in our three-part series presented by Employer Branding expert, James Ellis. 

Learn how you can optimiseoptimize your careerscareer site to attract more traffic, build rich talent pipelines, improve candidate experience and convert more high quality candidates.

Unlock your institution’s talent attraction potential in the competitive recruiting landscape. Join us for a webinar featuring a panel of HR leaders from a variety of prominent institutions as they unveil how they transformed their hiring efforts through recruitment marketing. Our panelists will unpack today’s most critical topics, and share their experiences, learnings and actionable advice.

You’ll learn how these leaders championed innovation through recruitment marketing, gaining stakeholder buy-in and showcasing its transformative impact. Hear firsthand how these tools empower teams to attract top-tier talent, reposition their institution as an employer of choice, and compete with corporate and private employers—to level the playing field in talent acquisition. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain a competitive edge and elevate your institution’s recruitment efforts.

You’ll learn:

• How to show value and build a business case for investment in the right HR software
• The importance of employer branding in strategic talent attraction
• What it takes to implement a solution, with real-world examples
• Why recruitment marketing is a must-have tool for institutions to compete with corporate for top talent —including proven ROI statistics from current users.

Host:

• Andrea McCartney, Customer Account Executive, PageUp

Presenters:

• Demi Williams, Director HR, Columbia University
• Erica Fini-Marten, Outreach & Sourcing Specialist, University of Wisconsin – Madison
• Roline Attia, Employee Engagement Manager, Pepperdine University

To achieve sustainable long-term growth, it’s more important than ever for organisations to attract and retain top talent.  But with competing priorities, convincing your C-Suite to invest in a world-class talent strategy can be a challenge. To help you navigate this complex conversation and secure executive buy-in, our friends at eArcu sat down with the Rectec team to discuss how you can drive stakeholder buy-in, and what you should consider to get your key stakeholders to join you on your talent strategy journey. 

Bec Fenlon, Head of Customer Success at eArcu, Rob Green, Founder and CEO of Rectec and Jack Spurway, Head of Marketing at Rectec look at: 

• How to create an adaptable strategy tailored for your industry
• How to identify and influence your key stakeholders
• The importance of using data in strategic decision making
• Why you need to consider the candidate experience as central to  your strategy
• What success looks like, and the importance of aligning your milestones with larger organisational goals

Watch on demand now to learn more

It’s pretty simple: post a job and jobseekers will apply —right? In today’s competitive market, hiring teams need to do more to secure great candidates. The days of ‘post and pray’ are gone, and the importance of building world-class candidate experiences is on the rise. But what actually makes a candidate’s experience great?

In this webinar, PageUp’s Head of Customer Insights and Market Research, Rebecca Skilbeck, will take you through the results of our Candidate Experience Survey where we asked over 185,000 candidates about their experience throughout the application process. 

We cover what jobseekers are looking for at three key stages:

• The jobseeker research stage: is your career site giving jobseekers the information they need? 

• The job search: can jobseekers easily search for and identify the right roles for them?

• The application: how can you avoid losing applicants at the final hurdle? 

Watch now to gain actionable insights, dive into feedback from real jobseekers, and get the tools you need to enhance your candidate experience.

How Cal State launched a shared-services recruitment model across 23 campuses.

Recruiting today is tough. To secure great talent, the importance of a great hiring process can’t be undersold. Traditionally, centralised hiring lends itself to agility, and makes it easy to provide a consistent candidate experience and promote a strong employer brand. But, in the world of higher education, teams often support recruitment across multiple campuses: a decentralised recruitment model. How can higher education hiring teams adopt the best bits of a centralised approach without impacting the autonomy of campus leaders?

The California State University system is composed of 23 different universities with 23 separate HR offices. After rolling out a shared instance of PageUp across all campuses, they saw an opportunity for a streamlined, ‘shared-services’ approach to attracting talent. But, what does this look like in practice?

Join Jason Wernick, Executive Director, CHRS at California State University and Andrea McCartney, Customer Account Exectutive, PageUp, to unlock their journey towards centralisation of recruitment in an effort to improve the candidate experience.

You’ll learn:

1. What a shared-services approach looks like in practice
2. Key learnings, “wish I would haves” and pitfalls to avoid
3. How recruitment marketing played a key role in transforming Cal State’s approach

Buying new HR tech is exciting, but implementing it can seem daunting. If you’re eager to modernize your hiring approach and want some advice on how to ensure a smooth implementation, this is the webinar for you.

Watch Derek Story, Director – HR Systems, Training and Communication, Illinois State and PageUp professionals Rhonda Hamilton and Sheena Murphy as they share their secrets, experiences and best practices in delivering successful implementations.

Watch today to learn:

1. How to get stakeholder buy-in from the outset

2. Strategies, communication, planning for success

3. Why building an agile process is critical

4. How to mitigate risks and maximise ROI

In 2023, your talent strategy needs to go further than just hiring. The talent market is still tight and while some industries are facing layoffs, many are still battling with talent shortages, skills gaps and a reduced workforce. Burnout is on the rise, and jobseekers are looking for more from their employers —like flexibility, work-life balance and a supportive culture. . . In a tumultuous talent market, how can companies thrive?

Allisa O’Connell, Head of People and Culture at Flight Centre Travel Group and Rebecca Skilbeck, PageUp’s Head of Customer Insights & Market Research share their key tactics to help you take your strategy beyond hiring in 2023.

Watch now to learn more about:

• The latest trends impacting the hiring landscape in 2023
• Why employer branding and culture is crucial to attract jobseekers
• How to leverage internal talent and alumni networks to retain employees and fill critical roles

Finding great talent today is hard. Keeping them around can be even harder. To successfully hire and retain the best people, you need to go beyond simply delivering a good experience. You need to build a personalized, candidate-centric journey that links recruitment to onboarding, development and beyond.

Watch today to learn how to:

1. build pipelines of warm and ready talent

2. break down recruitment silos and leverage internal skills,

3. use data, automation and the human touch to craft memorable recruitment experiences.

In today’s market, great talent doesn’t just knock on the door. So how can you stand out from the crowd and convince jobseekers to hit ‘apply’? By proactively marketing your organisationorganization as a great place to work. 

Columbia University saw the need to adopt recruitment marketing approaches to fill the gaps in their sourcing strategy. By leveraging customisablecustomizable career sites, employee stories, engaging content and personalisedpersonalized nurture workflows, Columbia is now drawing candidates in —rather than fishing for talent. 

Watch this presentation to learn: 

1. The triggers that pushed Columbia University to try new ways of sourcing. 

2. The focus and goals of implementing recruitment marketing software. 

3. Implementing new software successfully. 

4. Their results so far. 

That was Simone Strachan’s plan when she stepped up as Head of Talent at Sportsbet. Over the course of a year, Simone transformed Sportsbet’s old careers site into an immersive, authentic “virtual shopfront” featuring rich content, employee stories, and targeted landing pages. Sportsbet’s new career site was awarded Best Careers Site at the 2022 ITAs — and has attracted hundreds of applicants and increased referrals by 400% in just 6 months.

Hear from Simone when she joins Rebecca Skilbeck, PageUp’s Head of Customer Insights & Market Research, to unpack the behind-the-scenes strategy, planning and execution of an award-winning careers site. 

You’ll learn:

• What made Sportsbet’s careers site a winner at the 2022 Internal Talent Awards
• Why every organisationorganization should think of their career site as a “virtual shopfront”
• How Sportsbet’s EVP guides their strategy
• Key metrics and KPIs to help prove ROI

To learn more about about Sportsbet’s innovative approach, check out their success story: How Sportsbet created an award-winning careers site that attracts top talent.

2022 has been a rollercoaster year for talent acquisition managers and HR teams. With a global workforce shortage, every stage of the hiring journey and candidate experience has come under the microscope. Even a job listing — whether on a high-traffic job board or on your own careers site — can draw in the best candidates or turn them away.

PageUp’s VP of Global Channels, Dayne Nash, was joined by SEEK’s Customer Success Manager Matthew Lanciana as they discussed what jobseekers are looking for in 2022.

You’ll learn how to:

• Target the right audience
• Encourage diverse applicants
• Share information that matters to candidates
• Craft content that convinces people to apply
• Deliver a personalised, high-touch candidate experience

Content referenced during the webinar:

• SEEK Belonging at Work Paper
• SEEK Employment Dashboard Report Sep22
• SEEK Employment Report 2022
• Clinch Talent – What candidates really want to know in 2022
• Employee Connections

Watch Rebecca Skilbeck, Head of Customer Insights & Market Research, and special guest Georgie Fisher, Director of Talent at Mater, as they discuss insights from PageUp’s 2022 research report.

Drawing from thousands of customer insights, Rebecca outlines the industry benchmarks for each metric — and what you can do if you’re falling behind.

Are you equipped to capture the best candidates before your competitors do?

Savvy hiring teams are thinking like marketers to find and convert the best people for their organisationorganization. The key is to treat candidates like valued consumers – and add a personal touch.

In this webinar Etienne O’Neill, Global Digital & Operations Manager and Mai Shinkai, Talent Acquisition Consultant at PageUp walk through marketing best practices and explain how top recruiters are implementing them today.

In a post-COVID world, there will be a race for talent. As recruiting teams start to scale-up their hiring again, how can organisationsorganizations recruit without compromising on quality?

And in this new world of work, what new skills should you be looking for?

Rebecca Skilbeck, Head of Customer Insights & Market Research at PageUp and David McKeague, Co-Founder & Chief Strategist at Curious Thing discuss how to create a recruitment strategy that ensures you’re growth-ready post COVID-19. They’ll cover:

• The new skills you should be screening for at-scale
• Why even happy employees are looking for a ‘Plan B’
• How AI tools can can support recruiters to surface the best candidates, faster
• Talent reactivation: how to re engage with talent pipelines