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Remote Onboarding for Staffing Agencies – Best Practices

Last year, virtually onboarding new hires went from a rarity to an absolute necessity for businesses all around the world. How can staffing agencies get remote onboarding right? In 2020, the COVID...

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Staffing Agency Onboarding Best Practices to Increase Loyalty and Retention in 2021

“Staffing Is a People-Driven Business.” If you’ve worked in the staffing industry for any amount of time, you’ve certainly heard this adage. And it’s true. But the sheer number of people with...

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Executive Search in a Post-COVID World

What’s Changed? What Will Stay the Same? And How You Can Get It Right. As we cautiously emerge from the pandemic, it’s clear that COVID has changed the way we work, probably...

Blog Post, Applicant Tracking Systems, Relationship Management Software, Staffing Agency Management

ATS Data Migration – Behind the Curtain: An Interview with Crelate Product Consultant Melody Spraw

Moving to a new applicant tracking system (ATS) can be a scary proposition for any staffing or recruiting agency.  All your candidate records – the hard-earned life-blood of your agency – are stored within...

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What Is “Redeployment Rate,” and Why Is It a Crucial Staffing Agency Metric?

What Does It Cost Your Agency to Onboard New Talent? Though it can differ by agency and industry, the cost to your agency to onboard new talent is certainly not nothing. More...

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The Importance of Employee Referrals for Staffing Agencies, and How to Get Them Right

As the cliché goes, good people know good people.  For staffing agencies, the adage is used to promote employee referrals, the hiring strategy “in which employers encourage current employees to refer qualified candidates for jobs in their organizations.” ...

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Recruiting 101: Why Use An Applicant Tracking System & Recruiting CRM

What follows is a cautionary tale for recruiters still not using an Applicant Tracking System. If instead you're considering whether you've made the right choice with an ATS and recruiting CRM that seems...

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What the Heck is Programmatic Recruitment Advertising?

It’s ok if you’re not sure, or even if you’re not sure it’s right for you. But harnessing the power of programmatic can help recruiting and staffing agencies save time, save money, and find the...

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Crelate Increases Client Portal Features and Limits for All Business Customers

Keep Clients in the Loop with Crelate’s Client Portal Now included in business-level subscriptions or higher, Crelate’s bundled Client Portal represents industry-leading value. [embed]https://vimeo.com/525209025[/embed] As a recruiter, you know that in every...

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Crelate Takes Home Nine G2 Awards Based on User Feedback

We love our customers. And it’s nice to know you love us back. In a testament to our popularity with our customers, Crelate took home nine – count ‘em: NINE – G2...

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Blueprint – How to Start a Recruiting Agency in 2021, Part Three

This post is the third in a three-part series: Part one - Developing a plan for starting your recruiting agency Part two - Your recruiting agency’s operations and financial plan ... This...

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Blueprint – How to Start a Recruiting Agency in 2021, Part Two

This post is the second in a three-part series: Part one - Developing a plan for starting your recruiting agency Part three - A list of everything you’ll need, or nearly everything you’ll need, to consider for your...

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Crelate’s March ’21 Software Release – Request, Receive, and Find Information Faster and Easier than Ever Before

Crelate's March 2021 Release introduces even more amazing functionality for recruiters and salespeople, with features that will significantly improve your efficiency and productivity. You can use these powerful tools to immediately streamline...

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10 Solutions to the Top Executive Search Challenges

Download this recruiting eBook and learn 10 solutions to the top Executive Search challenges that headhunters and recruiters are facing in the modern age. Explore new methods to overcome the biggest challenges of Executive Search so you can make more leadership placements for your clients.

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The Recruiter’s Guide to ATS Data Migrations

Metrics are essential to understanding the effectiveness of your recruitment efforts. Every recruiter wants to know how they can maximize success and make more placements. Download this ebook and learn how to find actionable insights with an effective recruiting metrics program.

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How to Build an Effective Recruiting Metrics Program

Metrics are essential to understanding the effectiveness of your recruitment efforts. Every recruiter wants to know how they can maximize success and make more placements. Download this ebook and learn how to find actionable insights with an effective recruiting metrics program.

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How to Build a Proactive Recruiting Strategy

Proactive recruitment is the process of identifying and engaging top talent long before a position is open. Building relationships with future and potential candidates until the perfect opportunity presents itself. Download our free ebook to learn the most effective strategies for proactive recruitment to build your talent pipeline during so you have a pool of qualified candidates when the timing is right.

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Offer Letter Template

Your formal offer letter is one of—if not your last—touch with a candidate before they’re hired. You’ve worked incredibly hard to find the perfect person for the job, and you want it to look good. But you also need to make sure that it has all the information that your candidate needs to accept the offer and complete the final steps of the hiring process.

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Job Description Template for Full-Time Employee

The job description is your first chance to present your brand and opportunity to candidates. It’s a way to find qualified candidates who are also passionate about the work you’re doing.

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Interview Invitation Email Template

You’ve completed the phone screen and/or resume review of a chosen candidate which means you’re ready to begin the interview stage of the hiring process. Now you need to schedule the interview at a time that works with the correct internal employees, hiring managers, and your candidate. You also need to get this done in a timely manner so you don’t lose your candidate to another opportunity.

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Internship Job Description Template

An internship job description is a bit different from your standard full-time job description because there’s more flexibility required for the employer and intern. An internship is the start of someone’s career trajectory, sometimes opening doors for the intern that weren’t originally anticipated.

Blog Post, Applicant Tracking Systems, Staffing Agency Management

Blueprint – How to Start a Recruiting Agency in 2021, Part One

This post is part one of a three-part series: Part two - Your recruiting agency’s operations and financial plan Part three - A list of everything you’ll need, or nearly everything you’ll need, to consider for your agency...

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What is an ATS Data Migration?

When you’re considering a new ATS software solution, you know that you’ll need to migrate your existing recruiting data. Contrary to popular belief, this doesn’t have to be a complicated process. Use the best practices, tips, and tricks in this guide to get started with a successful ATS data migration.

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Crelate Announces Next Generation Recruiting CRM and Applicant Tracking Solution for Staffing And Recruiting Agencies

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Monster and Crelate Deliver Advanced Integrated Recruiting Systems

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LinkedIn Recruiting Tools Explained

How to Use LinkedIn to Find the Ideal Candidate. It’s no secret that social media is an incredibly powerful tool for the staffing and recruiting industry. Social media makes it easier to connect with prospective talent...

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Why combining a CRM and ATS benefits your staffing or recruiting agency

How candidate relationship management software helps you build a strong network of candidates and clients. What did recruiters do before applicant tracking systems? Actually, don’t tell us. We remember. File cabinets overflowing...

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Social Media Recruiting Strategies

The right hire for your company, or the right candidate for your client, will exemplify the skills needed to execute the job and match the core values of their team. But where...

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Hello, 2021! – Crelate’s Year in Review

As we all welcome in a New Year, the Crelate team is looking forward with optimism. 2020 has been a challenging year for our customers, employees, families, and friends. Through it all,...

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Recruiting Metrics: 37 Ways Talent Acquisition Teams Create and Measure Success

The right recruiting metrics and analytics will help you optimize your talent acquisition workflow, drive budgeting, and inform hiring decisions. And if you're an agency recruiter reading this article, speaking the same...

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Candidate Relationship Management vs. Customer Relationship Management vs. Applicant Tracking System

The recruiting industry suffers from a bit of an acronym problem. There's the term "CRM," which means one thing to recruiters, and something else to the rest of the business world. Then...

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Infographic: Do’s & Don’ts of Texting Candidates – Crelate & Rectxt

Recruiters and staffing firms are choosing to text candidates more than any other time in history, and this trend will continue as more Millennials and Gen Z workers make up the majority...

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Video Interview Tips and Best Practices for Recruiters and Hiring Managers

COVID-19 has transformed every facet of talent management. Nowhere is this more true than the interview process. Interviewing is now a virtual experience -- whether or not you were ready to recruit...

Blog Post, Staffing Agency Management

How to Calculate Your Staffing Agency’s Burden Rate & Bill Rate

For all businesses, success depends on finding the sweet spot between your costs and what you charge.  If you're moving into a leadership role at a staffing agency, or thinking about starting...

Blog Post, Crelate Updates

What’s New – Crelate Release 2.24

Parse, Brand, and Submit the Best Candidates, Faster Than Ever With our August 2020 release, the Crelate team is excited to unveil a series of tools and upgrades for recruiters that make...

Blog Post, Applicant Tracking Systems

Farewell Google Hire – Alternatives to G-Hire and Lessons Learned

With the September 1st sunset date for Google Hire now only days away, it's fair to say we're actually past the last minute to find the right ATS if you're still hanging on....

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How to Explain Recruitment Fees to New Clients

Finding, evaluating, and placing the best candidate for a job is an art that professional recruiters hone through years of interaction with candidates and feedback from clients. Most recruiting agencies, or independent recruiters, will post jobs, review hundreds of resumes from job applicants, proactively source huge numbers of additional passive candidates, prescreen, and schedule phone and in-person interviews. Then, they’ll...

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What’s New – Crelate Release 2.23

Better customer support, a more robust platform, and client portal pricing changes With our July 2020 release, Crelate is pleased to announce the launch of an entirely new approach to Customer Service,...

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Staffing Tools to Help Firms Optimize Current Business Operations and Maximize Profit

Modern staffing tools and software can make you more efficient and more profitable - earning more money from existing clients by streamlining operations. Learn how.

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Crelate June 2020 Product Updates – Improving efficiency, stability, and performance

Crelate's June 2020 update is here, and it's all about making the recruiting process more efficient, stable, and intuitive. Read on for the details.

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How Recruiting Agencies Can Navigate the “New Normal”

While experts and politicians debate when and how the economy should re-open, our customers are forced to deal with very real business questions today. I write this post as an optimist; I...

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How to Get Relocation Assistance for Your Candidates

Successful hiring is all about aligning a company's needs with the needs of a candidate. Relocation assistance is sometimes the final nudge that creates perfect alignment and another great placement. Smart recruiters...

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Why Crelate is “Folding @ Home” To Fight COVID-19

As the national conversation cautiously begins to shift from short-term survival to things like the potential shape of a long-term recovery, we wanted to revisit what it looks like to proactively contribute...

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7 Recruiting Strategies to Consider

The Recruiting Process Creative recruitment strategies set successful recruiters apart. Whether you're building a recruiting strategic plan, or simply looking for something new you can use today, these modern recruiting strategies can...

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What’s New in Crelate? March 2020 Product Updates

The March 2020 Crelate release includes the launch of improved client engagement capabilities with enhanced submittals and our new Client Portal! These improvements make it easier to securely share candidate information with...

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COVID-19 | A Message from Crelate CEO Aaron Elder

On behalf of everyone at Crelate, we hope you and your families safe and well. Our sympathies go out to everyone that is impacted by COVID-19. I want to update our customers...

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12 Reasons You Need a Modern Applicant Tracking System

12 Reasons You Need a Modern Applicant Tracking System This is a new era for talent management tech. In the old world of applicant tracking systems (ATS), recruiters faced a lack of...

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What You Should Look for in a Recruiting CRM

Choosing a recruiting Candidate Relationship Management system (CRM) is one of the biggest decisions a recruiter will make.   What Does CRM Stand for in Recruitment?   For recruiting agencies, CRM can...

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How the New Crelate Client Portal Makes Recruitment Communication Better

What is a Client Portal? As part of a larger engagement experience, the Crelate Client Portal specifically provides a way for recruiters to communicate with their clients and have an audit trail...

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ATS Data Migration Best Practices

The heart of any modern business is data. That's why there's such a strong emphasis on data integration and data migration across the business. Here are our 4 best practices to apply when building your data migration strategy.

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Best 2020 Recruiting Conferences to Attend

Industry conferences are a unique environment especially for recruiters. A collection of like-minded people gather to learn from industry leaders and their peers with an opportunity to network and build business relationships....

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New Integration Enables Calling and Texting for Recruiters

New communication tools in Crelate Talent for recruitment calls and text messages without leaving the application. Seattle, WASH., November 19, 2019 - Crelate, a leading provider of recruiting software solutions for talent...

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Top Takeaways from the 2019 TechServe Alliance Conference

Earlier this month, the Crelate team attended the 2019 TechServe Alliance conference. The annual event is focused on the IT and Engineering staffing and recruiting industries. The event featured over 20 interactive...

Blog Post, Recruiting Tips

If You Build It They Will Come: Are You Creating a Good Candidate Experience?

As an agency recruiter, you've worked as a middleman between your clients and the candidates they need. You've experienced firsthand the rigor and demands that any search brings. Your clients are concerned...

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See You at the 2019 TechServe Alliance Conference

Visit the Crelate booth #214 at the TechServe Alliance Conference Crelate is attending and exhibiting at the 2019 TechServe Alliance conference from November 5 - 7. The conference is the only event...

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Key Takeaways from the 2019 Staffing World Conference

Crelate was pleased to participate as a Select Sponsor of ASA's Staffing World conference Staffing World was a successful 3-day conference full of innovation and learning hosted by the American Staffing Association...

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3 Ways to Streamline Your Talent Pipeline

Do Your Clients Have a Need for Speed? 3 Ways to Streamline Your Talent Pipeline Even a strong talent pipeline can fall short if it isn't efficient enough. Optimizing your talent pipeline...

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Preparation is Key: What to do When You Can’t Predict the Future

You can't predict the future, but your company must have a talent acquisition plan to attract qualified candidates and prepare for the future. Outside of a crystal ball, there really aren't any...

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Crelate is a Select Sponsor of the 2019 Staffing World Conference

Sourcing, recruiting and staffing professionals at Staffing World can visit booth 660 to learn how the Crelate Talent Recruiting CRM and ATS can accelerate the end-to-end hiring process. Crelate is proud to...

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Takeaways from NAPS 2019 Conference

What we learned and shared during the NAPS conference in San Antonio We had another successful event sponsoring the NAPS annual conference. Hundreds of recruiters and recruiting firm owners join each year...

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Reaching Passive Candidates

Discover how employers can build a network of high-performers by targeting passive candidates.  Build a Network of Candidates Your Competitors Can't Reach: Passive Candidates Reaching passive candidates is the golden ticket for...

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What’s New with Crelate: September 2019

It's all about streamlining communication in our September release! We've renamed Bulk Email to Email Campaigns and added several exciting new capabilities. Use Crelate Email Campaigns, to send hundreds or thousands of...

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How to Get the Most Out of Resume Search for Sourcing

Efficiently Sourcing Candidate with Resume Search How proactive are you with your sourcing efforts? Sure, advertising your jobs is one way to get the word out there, but what else are you...

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Crelate Talent Recruiting Software Company Sponsors 2019 NAPS Conference in San Antonio

Recruiting professionals at the NAPS 2019 conference will learn how to use one system to accelerate the hiring process from job opening to candidate placement.    Crelate is looking forward to connecting...

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How Are the Best Recruiting Teams Tracking Important Metrics?

How To Track Important Recruiting Metrics From The Ground Up First, a disclaimer: reporting and analytics initiatives are not one size fits all. Your unique business goals will be a major driver...

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Recruiting Metrics ROI: Leveraging Metrics for More Than Budgeting

I don't need to tell you, measuring ROI is the original purpose for collecting metrics. Making sure you're investing time and money in the right places in your company is key to...

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What’s New with Crelate: August 2019

What's New with Crelate: August 2019 Our August release focuses on expanding functionality which can connect your Crelate Talent database with other systems. From "zapping" data to places like Constant Contact or...

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How to Interview as a Candidate: The Top Skills You Need to Get Hired Today

Using a combination of technical and social skills to get hired at your dream job or any job. When we see a job listing that we're excited about, obviously WE know we...

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Put Your Best Foot Forward: Shine in Any Type of Job Interview

We all get nervous for interviews, right? It's inevitable. I've had it happen even when I don't really want the job! Perhaps nothing can unite us more than job interview nerves. It's...

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Connect Crelate Recruiting Software to Over 1,000 Apps with Zapier

Crelate announces new integration with Zapier, empowering recruiters to automate more of their recruiting workflow and spend more time with candidates. Kirkland, Wash., August 7, 2019/PR Web/ - Crelate, a leading provider...

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Crelate Reaches 1,000 Customer Milestone

Crelate, a leading provider of recruiting software solutions for professional recruiting, announces that it has surpassed 1,000 customers as it continues to accelerate growth Kirkland, Wash., August 1, 2019 /PR Web/ -...

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Is it Worth it? Measuring the ROI of Your Recruiting Metrics Program

Are you so busy recruiting that it's hard to measure success? For many of us in the recruiting and staffing industry, measuring the ROI for new campaigns, programs, and technology is critical...

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3 Ways to Knock Your First Day on the New Job Out of the Park

It's your first day at the new job. Here are 3 ways to make a good lasting impression when you're the new employee. Regardless of where you're at in your career -...

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Recruiting Metrics You Should Be Tracking: Candidate Engagement

Are you engaging the right candidates? How are you measuring engagement? Making sure your job postings and communications reach the right audience of qualified candidates is a constant challenge in the recruiting...

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Prepare Your Team for Success: 3 Ways to Improve Talent Sourcing

Even with a large body of clients, the key to filling openings for those clients a good talent acquisition team and successful talent sourcing practices. Once you have a team assembled, building...

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Service Update: How We’re Improving Crelate

Over the past three weeks, a few of our customers may have experienced challenges accessing Crelate services. As our impressive 99.95%+ up-time's demonstrate, these incidents are rare. However when several small incidents...

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Recruiting Metrics You Should Be Tracking: Retention

Employee retention and why it matters to agency recruiters. Ideally, every candidate you place for a client would be the perfect fit. Staying with the client's company for a decade, driving growth,...

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Recruiting Metrics You Should Be Tracking: Offer Acceptance Rate

Communicating all aspects of the job with potential candidates helps to boost your offer acceptance rates. How many times have you recommended a candidate to your client and they extended an offer...

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Recruiting Metrics You Should Be Tracking: Time to Fill

Successful growth requires the right methods and right implementation. When your firm starts new initiatives, measuring the right metrics can allow you to tweak your efforts in many ways to maximize results.   We're...

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Extra Extra! It’s a Job Seeker’s Market! 5 Reasons it’s the Right Time to Change Jobs

People are changing jobs at a historic pace and for good reason - it's a candidate-driven labor market! What does this mean? With unemployment so low, businesses are having a difficult time filling open positions. This puts...

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How to Build Your Brand to Land Your Dream Job

Have you ever looked at yourself as a professional enterprise - one fully equipped with a marketing team, administrative assistant, sales team, IT dept (someone has to do it), CEO, all wrapped...

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Lights! Camera!…Hello? How to Capitalize on Your Next Video Interview

This is it! This is your chance! The first step in a process that might change your life forever. Some people get nervous about video interviews, and it can be a little...

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Using HubSpot to Kick-Start Your Marketing Automation

Marketing automation is blowing up right now. Growing at a rate of 30%+ annually, businesses are beginning to see the potential of what marketing automation can do for them. Marketing automation is the process in which software tracks the...

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Crelate to Launch Next Generation Mobile Recruiting Capabilities Throughout 2019

New mobile recruiting app and advanced texting functionality will empower recruiters to connect candidates with opportunities on the go with Crelate technology.     KIRKLAND, Washington, April 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Crelate, a leading...

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Quality over Quantity: Make Sure Your Emails Get Read

How to make sure your emails are read the first time? There's no denying the importance emails serve in the workplace. Everyone uses email. The effectiveness and ease at which information is...

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The Advantages of Working with a Third-Party Recruiting/Staffing Agency

When many companies consider their options for hiring new staff, many avoid recruiting and staffing firms. Maybe they think it is too expensive, or maybe they aren't sure if they can find the...

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Onboarding for Recruiters: Focus on the Candidate

It's true that the candidate experience has become a major priority for staffing and recruiting professionals. The key to gaining referrals and building a talent pool depends on delivering a strong candidate experience.   But what creates a great candidate experience? Many of the same things that...

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Are You Preparing Your Candidates for Success? 3 Tips for Long-Term Development

What are you doing to develop and prepare your candidates for success during and beyond their job hunt? Many recruiting professionals take the time to sit down with candidates they are placing and prep...

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Resistance is Futile: How to Get Employees On board with New Technology

Is there such a thing as too much innovation? When your employees are slow, or outright resistant to new technology, you may have hit the limit.  But what if it isn't the tech's...

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Prepare Your Team for Success: 3 Ways to Improve Your Talent Sourcing

Even with a large body of clients, the key to filling openings for those clients a good talent acquisition team and successful talent sourcing practices. Once you have a team assembled, building...

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Crelate Brings Innovative Recruiting Solutions to SourceCon Seattle 2019

Attendees of SourceCon will learn how simple it is to collaboratively engage potential candidates using an all-in-one recruiting software solution. Crelate, a leading provider of modern recruiting software, announced today that it...

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Crelate Adds Two Customer Success Specialists

Customer success is our main priority at Crelate. That's why our Customer Success team keeps growing. We're excited to welcome Bryanna Garza and Ryan Fonda, who've joined the team as Customer Success Specialists; bridging any gaps between what Crelate does and what customers need Crelate to do.

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The Advantages of Looking to Other Verticals to Fill Your Talent Pipeline

For many positions, there are no substitutes for industry experience. The skills and knowledge gained cannot be replaced or taught easily. However, with talent shortages making hiring difficult in many sectors, companies are...

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How To Build an Industry Leading Talent Acquisition Team

When assembling a talent acquisition team, many companies focus strictly on the tools and technology they are using. While it's true you'll need to provide your team with the latest tools; making sure...

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A Look Into the ASA Q3 Recruitment and Staffing Data Survey

The American Staffing Association (ASA) recently released their data survey for the third quarter of 2018. In the ASA Q3 survey they detail the growth of the labor markets as well as...

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Crelate February 2019 Release

Our February release focuses on many engineering improvements aimed at providing better performance (behind the scenes) of our application. A couple of changes that we want to highlight below are the "Invite...

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4 Top Recruiting Strategies for 2019

In 2018, we saw a lot of changes take effect in the recruiting industry. What also came out of 2018, was the beginnings of many trends for recruiting strategies in 2019. Let's...

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How to Develop a Talent Pipeline Strategy That Works

Whether the hiring market is tight or not, possessing a strong talent pipeline is vital. Any executive search firm knows that maintaining a network of active and passive candidates makes or breaks...

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Crelate Partners with MKSSA for the Second Consecutive Year

For the second year in a row, Crelate renewed as an industry partner of the Missouri and Kansas Search and Staffing Association (MKSSA). With this partnership, Crelate's network of nonprofit connections now spans...

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3 Onboarding Tactics to Boost Employee Retention and Productivity

Hiring new employees, while necessary, can be an expensive and time-consuming process. When you are recruiting to fill an open position, you may need the new hires to hit the ground running...

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Crelate January 2019 Release Notes

The new year is underway and we're back with a new release! This release is small, but contains a couple of highly requested features that prioritize customization and efficiency to give you...

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Why Recruiters Should Use Text Messaging to Reach Candidates

Why Recruiters Should Use Text Messaging to Reach Candidates  Text messaging is arguably the future of business communication. A study conducted by Nielsen predicts that over 96 percent of Americans under 44...

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Wrapping up 2018, and Looking Forward to 2019

2018 was a successful year for Crelate and our customers. We launched many exciting new features to the Crelate recruiting platform, we partnered with some new organizations in the recruiting industry, and the...

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Crelate Adds a Recruiting Software Developer to the Team

Patrick Hill joins Crelate to Help Develop Crelate's Mobile Applications and Improve Zapier Integrations. We're excited to welcome Patrick Hill to the Crelate team as a Junior Software Developer. Patrick will join...

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Why Recruiting Firms Need to Take Advantage of Record Low Unemployment

Unemployment in the US has been at a record low rate, resulting in a hefty workload of talent searches for recruiters. While the job hunt may be harder with a large pool...

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Recruiting in the STEM Skills Shortage

Many people are talking about the impending talent and labor shortages. The rise of technology is rapidly changing a lot of traditional industries. With some manual labor positions being filled by machines,...

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Customer Case Study: Recruiting Firm Grows 5x Headcount with Crelate’s Recruiting CRM and ATS Solution

Ambassador Search Group is a Coeur D'Alene, Idaho based recruitment firm which manages hiring efforts for high-end construction companies and telemedicine device makers nationwide. The firm specializes in the placement of management level individuals who make a critical impact on the success of a client's business. In the past year, Ambassador Search Group has experienced over 100% growth through projects across the United States, and a focus on expansion across the west coast.

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The Best Way to Engage Candidates with Video Interviews

Recruiters can save money and time engaging the remote candidate with video interview capabilities that integrate with their recruiting software. Video interviews are a great way to reach more candidates-especially candidates who...

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Crelate Introduces Corporate Social Responsibility Program with Discounted Nonprofit Pricing and Charitable Event Campaigns

Crelate, a modern recruiting software company, adds corporate initiatives that support nonprofits and charitable causes through work empowerment. KIRKLAND, WASH., Dec. 12, 2018 /PR Newswire/ -- Crelate, a leading recruiting ATS and CRM...

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Crelate Adds a New Full-Stack Developer to the West Coast Office

Daniel Shikoff joins Crelate as a Junior Software Developer. We're excited to welcome Daniel Shikoff to the Crelate development team, who will be based in our west coast office. Daniel comes with...

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Content Roundup: The Future of Recruiting Trends in 2019

Ready or not, the end of the year is upon us. Traditionally the new year is about looking inward and making resolutions of self-improvement for the coming year. Well, we thought you...

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Why Change Conference Swag?

Swag - noun - Promotional goods or items. Conference swag are those rare spoils or little treasures that are sought by tired conference attendees that more often than not, end up in a waste bin. Whether it's a fidget spinner, finger massager, laptop camera cover, USB charger cable collection or something simpler like a pen or t-shirt, conference goers often can't get enough of the stuff.

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Crelate Welcomes Two New Marketing Professionals to the Team

Two more desks in the Kirkland office and a busy marketing team. We're preparing for a successful 2019 here at Crelate with two new marketing professionals joining the team in our Kirkland...

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4 Ways a Recruiting CRM can Improve Productivity

With more and more jobs created, recruiters are busier than ever scouring the market for talent and providing companies with great candidates. Recruiters need to maximize their productivity if they want to...

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Source New Contacts from the Web and Add Candidates to Email Campaigns with Interseller

Sourcing and outreach efforts that store in your Crelate Recruiting ATS and CRM. What's Interseller? Interseller is an outreach automation platform that sources new contacts from the web and sends personalized email...

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Crelate Adds New Functionality in November Product Release

New features available in Crelate's web-based recruiting software solution. Find product release details in the bulleted list below. The best times at Crelate happen in the weeks leading up to a product...

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4 Tips on How to Recruit in Low Unemployment

The last time the national unemployment rate was this low, Neil Armstrong and his Apollo 11 team were prepping for the first lunar mission. While it's great to see so many people...

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NEWS – Crelate Brings Intelligent Hiring Solutions to NAPS Members

Attendees at the NAPS 2018 conference will learn how easy and powerful it is to align talent and demand pipelines in a unified recruiting solution and be able to help raise money...

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See You at NAPS 2018 Conference in Florida for the Latest Recruiting Industry Trends and Topics

Crelate is excited to be a Silver Sponsor of the NAPS 2018 Conference, hosted by the National Association of Personnel Services, to be held November 4 - 6 in Bonita Springs, Florida. Our team will exhibit in Booth #16 and demonstrate Crelate's all-in-one ATS and Recruiting CRM for businesses engaging candidates and clients throughout the talent acquisition process.

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Crelate Deepens Integration with Microsoft Office Online

Crelate improves recruiter productivity by integrating with Office Online applications giving customers the ability to manage resumes, offer letters, and many other compatible documents directly from a Crelate account. KIRKLAND, Wash., Oct....

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Will On-Demand Staffing Pose a Threat to the Recruiting Industry

Today's workforce is changing at a rapid pace. The traditional workforce consisted of people who arrived at a defined job site, worked a set schedule, and earned a fixed salary. Now, the...

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What is a Recruiting CRM & Why Do I Need One?

There's a lot of confusion out there amongst recruiters about recruiting CRMs. The confusion likely stems from the lack of consensus surrounding the age-old ATS vs. CRM debate recruiters have waged for...

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Crelate Recognized by Recruiters on G2 Crowd with 2018 Applicant Tracking “High Performer” and “Users Love Us” Awards

Crelate's fast and flexible recruiting solution has been identified as one of the best Applicant Tracking Systems, based on its high levels of customer satisfaction and likeliness to recommend ratings from real...

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Crelate September 2018 Release Notes

Fall has arrived and with it comes our September 2018 release! Hot on the heels of our SMS integration, we're proud to announce the beta release of our Crelate Connector mobile app...

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What’s New at Crelate | September 2018 Product Release

We had a productive summer at Crelate and we're happy to share what will be included in the September product release. Crelate's Recruiting CRM and Applicant Tracking System will receive a refreshed...

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Content Roundup: 3 Recruiting Articles to Read in September 2018

Content Roundup: 3 Recruiting Articles to Read in September 2018 Sigh, summer is drawing to a close and soon winter will be here. Students are back in the classrooms, work is beginning...

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Legal Recruiting: Creative Sourcing Strategies to Find Top Law Talent

In today's labor market, waiting for candidates to find your law firm or job posting organically isn't going to produce a deep enough hiring pool. The tight market is putting the pressure on...

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How To Reduce Unconscious Bias During the Hiring Process

While we'd all like to think the hiring process has become less biased over the last few decades, the data reveals we still have a long way to go in establishing a...

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Talent Software Features Your Applicant Tracking Systems Must Have

Success in the recruiting industry requires delivering results in a timely manner. Applicant tracking systems (ATS) are designed to enable recruiters to work smarter, faster, and more efficiently. But as the industry...

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4 Recruiting and Retention Metrics To Measure Success

In any business, to measure success through hard numbers is one of the most important muscles you can build, and recruiting is no different. Data is unbiased, unemotional, and provides a baseline...

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Crelate’s What’s New July 2018

Your Crelate subscription just got a little bit better. Summer is in full swing, and our July 2018 release is ready to roll. The name of the game this month is integrations!...

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How Recruiters Can Optimize The Candidate Experience

Recruiting in a candidate-driven market requires recruiters to take a different approach to talent acquisition. When you're discussing opportunities with a candidate in today's job market, chances are a few of your...

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Taking the Stress Out of Your ATS Data Migration

Few things will send recruiting firms into a fearful panic quite like the idea of embarking on an ATS data migration. But the truth is, data migrations, when executed by an experienced...

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Recruiting News: Deloitte 2018 Study Reveals that Millennials are Losing Trust and Loyalty with Businesses

How are millennials feeling about the current business environment? Deloitte recently published the results of their annual millennial survey and the results are alarming for businesses. Specifically, there has been a significant...

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Use Text Messaging in Recruiting To Better Engage Candidates

Kirkland, WA - Crelate, the recruiting software company that empowers staffing and recruiting agencies to manage talent and opportunity in a single solution, today announces the addition of a complete suite of...

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Crelate’s Summer Reading Roundup: How Technology is Being Used in Recruiting

The summer heat has arrived! There are few better ways to spend a hot, summer afternoon than getting comfy in a lawn chair, hammock, or blanket as you catch up on some...

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GDPR and Crelate: Feature Walkthrough

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]May 25th, 2018 sees the beginning of the paradigm shifting EU legislation, GDPR. The General Data Protection Regulation will revolutionize how companies use and store user data by giving control of the...

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Crelate’s What’s New in May 2018

It's May so change is in the air, spring is giving way to summer, the days are growing longer, and Crelate is just getting better. This release focuses primarily on compliance, specifically...

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5 Steps To Managing Your Company’s Reputation In The Digital Age

Employer brand management is crucial to attracting and retaining both active and passive candidates to your company. Whether you're currently looking to hire a new employee or will need to down the...

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Case Study: Tire Talent

Recruiting Agency in the Automotive Industry Turns to Crelate’s Talent Management Solution. Crelate has dramatically reduced the amount of time that Tire Talent is spending on administrative functions, allowing them to focus on what matters most – building relationships and hiring great people.

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Crelate Ranks Among Top 10 Easiest To Use Applicant Tracking Systems

Crelate was rated #10 among all applicant tracking systems in the G2Crowd Top 20 Easiest to Use Applicant Tracking System (ATS) Softwares Spring 2018. This rating is based on targeted questions that...

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5 Ways Small Recruiting Firms Can Compete With The Big Guys

For smaller recruiting firms, it can sometimes feel like a war of David vs. Goliath when it comes to competing with larger-sized firms for talent. While different candidates and clients may have...

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3 Steps U.S. Companies Need To Take To Comply With GDPR

May 25th will be a critical day across the globe as the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR officially goes into effect. As we touched on in our previous article, the GDPR...

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Crelate’s What’s New in April 2018

We're back with our April 2018 release with a couple of new features and a plethora of fine-tuning to help super charge Crelate for your business needs! This time around we're bringing...

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5 Creative Sourcing Strategies To Attract Passive Candidates

Sourcing candidates as a recruiter isn't always easy. It can be frustrating to try the same methods over and over (cold calling and emails anyone?) and feel like you're not seeing any...

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Top 5 Articles To Prepare You For Tax Season

Tax season is in full swing and for companies and individuals alike this time of year can present plenty of stress. Plus, with the addition of new tax laws, many people are...

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What Recruiting Agencies Need To Know About GDPR

If you haven't heard of GDPR yet, you soon will. The General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR is new European Union legislation that aims to enforce stricter rules on how businesses collect,...

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Crelate Invests in Local Tech Community With Two Spring Interns

This month, we're temporarily expanding our development team with the addition of two interns for the spring of 2018! Working with interns gives Crelate a great opportunity to support the growth of...

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How The Right ATS Can Deliver Long-Term ROI

These days, it's not enough to buy new software for your company solely because of its capabilities. You also have to provide a measurable ROI to back up your decision. When you're...

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Crelate Named a High Performer Applicant Tracking Software by Real Users on G2 Crowd

Crelate Talent has been identified as one of the best applicant tracking software platforms, based on its high levels of customer satisfaction and "likeliness to recommend" ratings from real users reviewing Crelate...

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Crelate at the 2018 Bellevue Tech Expo

The second annual Bellevue Tech Expo is coming up in March, and Crelate will be there to support our local community, share the solutions we have to offer and exchange information with emerging technologies...

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How Creating A Healthy Workplace Pays For Itself-And 4 Simple Ways To Get Started

Whether you're looking to attract or retain your best employees, it's important that your company makes it a priority to cultivate a healthy workplace. More and more people expect their company to...

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How the 2018 Tax Changes Might Affect Recruiting Agencies

The gig economy has been expanding over the last handful of years, and the newly implemented tax plan may escalate that trend. The 2018 tax law offers benefits for businesses classified as...

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Crelate’s What’s New in February 2018

NEW - Reports 3.0 We're pumped to bring you the completely revamped reports feature. Crelate is all about flexibility, working how you want to. That's why our old reports section got a...

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How Recruiting Firms Can Navigate The New Gig Economy

The gig economy isn't just a buzzword or anticipated trend anymore: it's here. From companies like Uber and Postmates to Upwork and Fiverr, people now have more options than ever when it...

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6 Questions to Ask Before You Upgrade an ATS

An applicant tracking system (ATS) helps you manage and track applicants throughout the recruiting process-it can be your best ally in making recruiting easier and more organized for both your company and...

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Five Things We Learned From the G2 Crowd Implementability Index

Not long ago, Crelate was named the "Most Implementable" applicant tracking system (ATS) in the G2 Crowd Implementability Index. This is great for businesses that want to get up and running quickly...

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5 Ways To Better Manage Your Time As A Recruiter

A day in the life of a recruiter is anything but boring. You're holding intake meetings, juggling applicants, candidates, and hiring managers, and answering a barrage of emails from all three. While...

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Crelate partners with the Missouri and Kansas Search and Staffing Association

To start the year off right, Crelate took another step in helping improve the recruiting and staffing industry by partnering with the Missouri and Kansas Search and Staffing Association (MKSSA). With this...

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Crelate is One of the Best Software Companies of 2018

On Tuesday, G2 Crowd released their Best Software Companies 2018 index. Crelate was ranked #30 out of the Top 50 for software companies with fewer than 50 employees. The ranking was based...

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Wrapping up 2017, and Looking Forward to 2018

2017 was a big year for Crelate. Exciting new features were added to the platform, Crelate partnered with some great organizations, and the Crelate applicant tracking system received awards for excellence in...

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Crelate Partners with the Ohio Recruiters Association

Crelate is pleased to announce that we are now Associate Business Partners of the Ohio Recruiters association (ORA). We are always excited to support non-profit organizations within the staffing and recruiting industry....

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Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas from the Crelate team

On behalf of the entire Crelate family, we offer our thanks and best wishes for a wonderful holiday season filled with peace, love, health, and happiness. May this holiday season and the...

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Crelate named “Most Implementable” ATS by G2 Crowd

Kirkland, WA - Crelate, the recruiting software company that enables business to collaboratively manage hiring and opportunity pipelines, today announced that it has been named the "Most Implementable" Applicant Tracking System by...

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Crelate Wins Key Recognition in Recruiting Software from Capterra

Crelate is very pleased to announce three key award wins from Capterra. Crelate Talent has been awarded Capterra's Best Value for the Money Badge, Best Customer Support and Most Recommended awards in the Applicant Tracking System category....

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Crelate: The Easiest Applicant Tracking Solution to Implement

Late last month, G2 Crowd, a company dedicated to reviewing and rating business solutions, named Crelate the "Most Implementable" recruiting software! G2 Crowd rated applicant tracking systems based on several factors such...

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Announcing Sponsorship of the Georgia Association of Personnel Services

Today we announced that Crelate is now a Silver Sponsor Affiliate Member of the Georgia Association of Personnel Services (GAPS). Crelate is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of GAPS. Associations such...

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“It’s good to be back” – Crelate is moving the West Coast office back to Kirkland, Washington

We've come a very long way from moving out of our CEO's basement. After spending what felt like two short years in Bothell, I am happy to say the team has finally...

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A New Recruiting CRM and ATS for Staffing and Recruiting Agencies

New recruiting CRM software combines opportunity and talent management into a single solution to help staffing and recruiting agencies meet the talent needs of their customers. KIRKLAND, WASH., OCTOBER 31, 2017  -- Crelate,...

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Manage Candidate and Talent Pipelines With a Unified Software Solution

Crelate's October 2017 Release Our biggest release of the year is here and it's ready to help your team manage leads and opportunities right alongside your existing candidate and talent pipelines! Our...

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An ATS and CRM for Recruiting Agencies

Crelate's Recruiting CRM / Opportunity Management Tool Crelate Talent is excited for our October release where Recruiting Opportunity Management (CRM) will go live. This is our biggest release of the year and...

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Crelate: A Bronze Sponsor for NAPS 2017 Conference

Crelate, providers of fast, modern and unified candidate management and recruiting CRM solution that empower recruiting and talent-focused businesses, is the newest Bronze sponsor of the 2017 Conference from the National Association...

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Crelate’s Top 10 Recruiting Articles from August 2017

Curated Recruiting Blogs for August 2017 Fall is here and soon the leaves will be turning and cooler temperatures will finally be here. Our thoughts are with all of those affected by...

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Gartner Names Crelate Talent an ATS Leader

Crelate Talent ATS added as a Leader in Gartner FrontRunners Quadrant Crelate is excited to announce that we have been chosen as an ATS Leader by Software Advice. To create this quadrant,...

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Crelate’s Opportunity Management Tool is Coming

Recruiters Are Searching for an All-in-One Solution Have you ever dreamed of being able to manage ongoing candidate searches alongside your clients and sales pipeline? Ever wish your sales and recruiting efforts...

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Crelate Ranked #1 ATS for Small Business on G2Crowd

Crelate Talent Ranked #1 for Small Businesses One of the hardest things for a business to obtain, is reviews. We asked our clients to take the time to tell us what they...

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Staying Calm in Stressful Situations

How To Stay Calm when You Know You'll Be Stressed For your Monday morning inspiration this week check out a TED talk by neuroscience expert Daniel Levitin titled: How To Stay Calm...

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Crelate’s Top 10 Recruiting Articles from July 2017

Curated Recruiting Blogs for July 2017 In the Midwest kids are already 'back to school' next week! So, summer is coming to a close soon and fall is right around the corner....

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Expert Advice for Sourcers in Training – Getting the Full Picture of the Role

Working through the Career Problem In article three of our on-going "Sourcing Tips" series we tackle step two of the process: figuring out the 'what' for your candidates and clients. To put it...

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Crelate’s Top 10 Recruiting Articles from May 2017

Curated Recruiting Blogs for May 2017   Summer is finally here! May offered several interesting, useful, and amazing sourcing/recruiting blog fodder in the HR and Recruiting world. There are a plethora of...

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Crelate’s What’s New in June 2017

Crelate's June 2017 Release We hope everyone is having a great start to their spring! As the Crelate team gears up for a large release later this summer, we are pleased to...

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Crelate Sprints to #7 on GetApp

Crelate #7 Applicant Tracking Software According to GetApp Crelate is happy to announce that our ATS app has surged ahead two spots on GetApp for Q2 of 2017. This time Crelate was...

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GetApp Report Identifies Crelate as Industry Leader

GetApp Lab's Report on Most Popular HR Software Recently GetApp provided an interesting report highlighting the most popular HR Software solutions and how they are disrupting the market. GetApp surveyed 647 users...

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Crelate’s Top 10 Sourcing Articles from March 2017

Curated HR & Sourcing Blogs for March 2017 Happy Spring everyone! Here's hoping that it actually feels like spring wherever you may be. March offered several interesting, useful, and amazing sourcing/recruiting blog fodder...

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Office Culture Often Correlates With Productivity

Brittanie Sanders Talks Office Culture & Productivity I've always been a passionate and driven individual with a strong work ethic, but I didn't realize I had been running on autopilot until I...

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When Sizing up an Alternative ATS Data Migration is Key Concern

When Moving to a New ATS Disruptions and unexpected events can often provide small business owners with an incredible amount of stress and sleepless nights. One particularly difficult situation is when your...

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AESC Report: Executive Search Continues to Thrive

AESC Report on the Future of Executive Search  Recently the Association of Executive and Leadership Consultants (AESC) produced a report titled, "What's Next for Executive Search and Leadership Consulting 2020?" The research...

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Crelate’s Top 10 Recruiting Articles from February 2017

Curated HR & Recruiting Blogs for February 2017   As I write this post the Northeastern seaboard, in the U.S., is facing a foot to two feet of snow, so spring doesn't seem 'upon...

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Crelate’s What’s New in March 2017

Crelate's March 2017 Product Release   We hope everyone is having a fantastic start to 2017!  We are back with another update of Crelate. We are excited to launch a number of...

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Crelate Development – Adding “Bulk Editing” for 5 Fields

Bulk Editing For Up up to 5 Fields Crelate is constantly looking for ways to help sourcers, recruiters, and hiring managers manage their time more efficiently and have more space to connect...

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Crelate in Development – Chrome Extension 3.0

Getting the Right Talent into your ATS is Key One of the most difficult tasks for Sourcers, Recruiters, and HR Professionals is getting qualified talent into their Rolodex of contacts (i.e., their...

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Crelate’s Servers Get Another Upgrade

Crelate is Continuously Upgrading Hardware as We Grow In today's fast-paced business world it's absolutely critical to have applications that are fast and reliable. This is especially true in the Recruiting world...

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Reducing Friction Points For Executive Recruiters!

Trains and High Speed Rail - The Way to Go Trains have always been fascinating to me since I was a little kid. I used to commute from south of Seattle to...

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GetApp Names Crelate as a Category Leader in Q4 of 2016

Crelate is excited to announce that GetApp has ranked us as a Category Leader for the 4th Quarter of 2016. GetApp does their homework in putting together these rankings (as described below) and...

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What’s New December 2016

Ending the year without a release of Crelate Talent just doesn't seem right, so we're back with a new release! This year has been full of major feature releases and improvements throughout...

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Crelate in Development – Application Auto-Approval

Welcome back to our third and final installment of Crelate in Development for the Winter 2016 release!  Today I'm going to jump into the much anticipated Application Auto-Approval! Application Auto-Approval The Application...

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Crelate in Development – Timeline Changes

Hi again!  Wilson here with another quick post about upcoming changes to Crelate.  This time I'm going to talk about our Timeline Auto Date Feature. Timeline Auto-Date Our goal with any feature...

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Crelate in Development – New Version Banner

Hello everyone, Wilson here from the Dev Team at Crelate. Winter has certainly set in across the country and it's almost time to enjoy family and friends for the Holidays. As you...

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Security in Data Migration is a Top Priority

A Risky Way to Send Data A couple of weeks ago I was working in the office when the mailman arrived with a small package. Dan Mattwig indicated it was for him....

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Custom Snooze and Custom Hyperlinks Added

Hi all, Wilson from the Dev team here at Crelate.  We recently did an update to Crelate over the weekend and with a large number of stability fixes, but there's two new features that...

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Learn to Love Not Loath the Technical Interview

The Potential Stress of Technical Interviews Technical recruiters should take heed, it's really important to help ease the nerves of developers as they prepare for their technical interviews for programming positions. Going in with...

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What’s New October 2016

Just three months after our last release, we have a another great release of Crelate Talent for you! In this release, we have made major investments in our underlying email features. The...

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5 Signs it’s Time to Upgrade Your Candidate Management System

An Effective Recruiting Solution is a Must for Professional Recruiters Recent studies show that professional recruiters continue to be in high demand in the U.S. and abroad. Businesses routinely list "recruiting and...

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Capterra Names Crelate in Top 20 for ‘Most Affordable’ ATS

Crelate Ranked in Top 20 for Affordability Bethesda, MD, August 10, 2016 - Crelate is pleased to announce that Capterra has conducted an independent study of the best applicant tracking software, based...

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Deloitte’s “Global Human Capital Trends 2016 Report” for Recruiters

Deloitte's Global Human Capital Trends 2016 Over the past few years major disruptions have occurred in HR and corporate structures and organizations. Recently, Deloitte conducted a comprehensive global study of human capital...

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Crelate Announces June 2016 Release

Bethesda, MD, July 15, 2016: Crelate is pleased to announce our June 2016 release. This release includes several new features and upgrades for recruiters and hiring managers. Crelate updates their applicant tracking...

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Capterra Review: Most User-Friendly Applicant Tracking Solution

Crelate Ranked in Top 5 for Usability Bethesda, MD, June 30, 2016 - Crelate is pleased to announce that Capterra has completed an independent study of the Most User-Friendly Applicant Tracking Solutions based...

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What’s New June 2016 Release

We've updated Crelate Talent again! Crelate is constantly responding to the needs of our customers and thinking of innovative ways that our system can improve recruiting. So, we are excited to offer...

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Gotta Get the Resume Right – 6 Resume Miscues to Avoid

Gotta Get the Resume Right Over the years of building and leading development teams, I have had a hand in hiring hundreds of developers, PMs, BAs and consultants.  As such, I have...

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Crelate Uptime Report – Q1 – 2016

It's been far too long since we have provided an update on our service uptime.  Before I get into the numbers, let's talk about what uptime is and how we maximize it....

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Paying Attention to Your Job Candidate Experience

Candidate Experience is Primary Interested in attracting top talent to your recruiting firm? If so, it's crucial that you put the "Candidate Experience" toward the top of your to-do-lists. Providing meaningful candidate...

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What’s New at Crelate | Winter 2016 Release

We've updated Crelate Talent again! This release includes the addition of a new premium job board integration (Monster.com), a new mobile app for Android, improved iPhone app, custom fields for contacts, and...

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Our approach to user experience and product design

Crelate was founded by seasoned product designers, graphic artists, developers and enterprise quality consultants.  I myself am actually a visual arts major, turned software developer, and entrepreneur.  Through my years of experience in...

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Data Migrations – It’s time to clean things up

After you have decided to make a move and you are ready for a data migration, let's start to think about some of the advantages of a migration. Switching your talent and...

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Don’t Let the Fear of a Data Migration Hold you Back

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Data migrations are often viewed by business professionals as a major obstacle that is simply too difficult and too costly to take on. One of the most common reasons people give for not...

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Sourcing Candidates Made Easy: Chrome Extension 2.1

Need a way to easily source candidates and quickly update information to their profile page? Crelate's Chrome Extension is a great solution and now available via the Chrome web store. Our 2.0...

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What’s New – November 2015 Fall Release

Hey there! It is has been a couple of months since our last release and we are happy to announce our fall 2015 release. For this release we focused on improvements in...

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Got a Minute? Check Out an Overview of Crelate Talent.

Check out an overview of Crelate Talent to see what Crelate Talent is?  How can Crelate help with your recruiting and hiring process? Check out this short video that highlights just some...

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The Origin of The Name Crelate And How It Shapes Us.

We are often asked about the origin and meaning of our name.  As the story goes Co-Founder Mark Barrett was doing dishes when he had an epiphany about the kind of ATS...

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What’s New For July 2015

Hey there! It has been just two short months since our last release and we are delighted to bring you some exciting new improvements! What's new for July 2015? For this release...

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What’s New – May 2015

Hey there! It has been two months since our last big release and we are delighted to bring you some exciting new improvements!  This release brings numerous productivity tweaks and improvements; all...

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What’s New at Crelate | February 2015 Product Release

Hello and welcome to another exciting update of Crelate Talent. This release, we are focusing on new features and extensions, including an Outlook client, Chrome extension and more. As always, appreciate your...

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New Premium Job Board Integration with Crelate Talent

Premium Job Board Integration - Dice & Career-Builder Crelate Talent is constantly evolving, with new features being added in every release. In an effort to improve our customers' job posting visibility, we...

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Recruiters Need Good ATS Software

Software Helps in Recruiter Productivity But according to a new report from Software Advice, a talent management technology research firm, you already knew that. Their report analyzed the value and benefits of...

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Five Reasons Software Doesn’t Get Used – And What We Do About It

I've visited many companies over the years as a software consultant and been introduced to many different solutions. Often, my job was to replace a system because of "poor user adoption" -...

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About the Crelate “Early Adopter” Program

I wanted to take a moment and explain what our Early Adopter Program  is and how it is different than our previous Beta Program. Crelate Talent, our modern applicant tracking and candidate management...

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Uptime Status Page

Last week, we did a post about our service availability and uptime.  This week I am pleased to announce the availability of status.crelate.com. This tool is a simple and easy way to...

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Uptime update

Crelate Talent has been in "private beta" for almost a year now and I wanted to provide a quick update on our "uptime" statistics.  Before I get into the numbers, let's talk...

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New Kirkland Office

"Well we're movin' on up. On the east side.  To a "deluxe" office on Market!" It finally happened, our team has finally out grown the founders basement and we are moving our development...

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Service Update – January 2014

Current customers in our Beta Program enjoy our "unlimited technical support" offer.  This is pretty impressive white glove support, unlimited training, proactive monitoring of issues and extremely fast response times. I am happy to...

Blog Post, Recruiting Tips

Recruiting Strategies of High Performers – Part 3

This post is the final in a series illustrating recruiting strategies we've learned from watching high performing recruiters in action.   The following strategies apply to any recruiter, whether you are an...

Blog Post, Recruiting Tips

Recruiting Strategies of High Performers – Part 2

This post is the second in a series illustrating recruiting strategies we've learned from watching high performing recruiters in action.   The following strategies apply to any recruiter, whether you are an...

Blog Post, Recruiting Tips

Recruiting Strategies of High Performers – Part 1

At Crelate we have been working closely with a number of excellent executive search firms, recruiting firms, staffing agencies and internal recruiting departments to develop the applicant tracking module of our talent...

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The iPad Client is almost ready!

Private Beta 9 is upon us and we expect to release late Friday night.  Private Beta 9 brings many new features, which you can read all about in the What's New section...

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MOOCs – A Good Model for Training in SMBs?

Forbes ran an article earlier this month that is getting some attention regarding the use Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to reduce training costs and make training more effective. Training is critical...

Blog Post, Recruiting Tips

What is Talent Relationship Management?

For my first blog post, I figured I would start with our purpose. What is Talent Relationship Management? What makes it different from traditional Applicant Tracking? How does it drive and inspire...