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Hiring for multiple locations is more than just a numbers game—it can be a real challenge to get right!

In a competitive talent market, the company that gets the best candidate for the role wins. But before you can make an offer, you have to get candidates to look at your role and think of your company as a viable option for employment — and that starts with your employer brand. 

2022 may have been a crazy year for recruiting—the Great Resignation finally seeming to dwindle down, big tech initiating mass layoffs—but it was also a year in which many companies embraced new recruiting trends to stay competitive in an ever-dynamic recruiting space. And so, as the year comes to a close, we decided to ask leaders in the space what the top trends they saw defining the recruiting space in 2022 were.

Hiring Gen Z candidates is increasingly becoming a priority among HR and TA leaders. But Gen Z have specific needs and interests that set them apart from other candidates. Understanding those needs and interests is essential to attracting them.

Not all candidates are created equal. We all want more candidates, sure, but what we really want are more of the right candidates. Y’know, candidates who turn up and are engaged and make your headaches (or at least one of your headaches) disappear. So today, we want to talk about one of the tools in your arsenal to find those candidates: job branding.

It’s fun to be in HR right now. If you didn’t already have enough to deal with—like trying to recruit in a historically challenging labor market, or managing health and safety during Covid and navigating the various challenges of an in-person vs. remote workplace—you now have quiet quitting to add to the list.