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The 2024 Hiring Insights Report, a study of 525 talent acquisition leaders, reveals a persistent struggle with talent retention, a need to automate repetitive tasks, and the strategies top-performing teams used to hit hiring goals in a challenging market.

San Francisco – January 31, 2024

After a trying year that tested talent acquisition (TA) teams in every sector, GoodTime today published the 2024 Hiring Insights Report to reveal top challenges, how TA is evolving, and how top-performing teams hit their hiring goals.

The independently conducted survey of 525 talent, HR, and recruiting leaders across the U.S. shows that hiring teams have faced colossal challenges and pressures that have forced them to evolve quickly to meet the demands of today’s market.

Key findings from the 2024 Hiring Insights Report:

• On average, TA teams hit just 51.3% of their hiring goals in 2023.
• Contrary to perceptions of an employer’s market, 44% of TA leaders said hiring became more competitive in the last 12 months, and 27% reported a lack of qualified candidates as a primary hiring challenge.
• A significant 34% of TA leaders cite talent retention as a top challenge.
• 99% of TA teams are now employing AI and automation.
• Talent teams still spend 35% of their time scheduling interviews alone, among other easily automated tasks.
• Layoffs have significantly affected employee morale. Companies that experienced layoffs in 2023 were about 83% more likely to report fair or poor engagement from employees.

Learning from top-performing TA teams

GoodTime’s report dives into what top-performing teams (defined as those who hit 75% or more of their hiring goals) did differently than the rest of their peers. The report reveals that the top performers were:

• 40% more likely to focus on upgrading hiring technology.
• 24% more likely to prioritize candidate experience improvements.
• 23% more likely to invest in improving overall efficiency.

A major adjustment in return-to-office (RTO) efforts

After persistent tensions around stringent RTO mandates, it seems companies are letting up a bit and compromising with mixed or hybrid working models. TA leaders reported a massive shift from a fully in-office workforce to a mostly in-office approach, with a mix of fully in-office, fully remote, and hybrid workers.

• Of the 525 companies surveyed, only 16% were fully in office in 2023 (compared to 62% the previous year).
• 78% of companies surveyed were mostly in-office, with some hybrid or remote workers.
• Just 1% of respondents said their company was fully remote.

A struggle to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I)

The previous year’s Hiring Insights Report found that 28% of companies planned to make DE&I a measurable priority in 2023, but this year’s report shows that only 24% followed through on that goal. Overall, the number of companies prioritizing DE&I has fallen two years in a row now.

What’s even more concerning is that DE&I is likely to be deprioritized further, with only 24% saying it’s a focus area for 2024.

TA teams are becoming more resilient

While 2023 presented immense hiring challenges, the report also surfaces major opportunities and optimistic trends among TA professionals.

• 45% said time-to-hire remained flat, with 10% saying it decreased.
• On average, TA teams saw a 7% lift in hiring goal attainment over the previous year.
• 90% said they would rate their overall recruiting process as ‘Good’ or ‘Excellent.’

“This is our third year publishing this report, and positive trends are starting to emerge: Hiring tech adoption is accelerating and while teams are getting leaner, they’re also evolving and becoming more resilient for the next set of challenges that come our way,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO & Co-Founder of GoodTime. “TA professionals honed their ability to spot top talent faster. They made processes leaner and smarter. And for many of the leaders surveyed for this report, those actions are paying off. We hope that by sharing these insights, we can help struggling TA teams tap into their resilience in the year ahead.” 

To download the full report, visit goodtime.io.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps talent acquisition teams hire up to 50% faster by automating interview scheduling, candidate communications, and more. Hundreds of the world’s leading companies including Slack, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Lyft, Shopify, and HubSpot trust GoodTime to accelerate their hiring process while maintaining a best-in-class candidate experience.

With advanced features like multi-day and panel interview scheduling, SMS and WhatsApp communication, workflow automation, intelligent interviewer selection, and powerful data and benchmarking reports, we’re helping enterprise companies cut their time-to-hire in half.

Learn more at goodtime.io.

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As the U.S. grapples with an escalating shortage of health aides, nurses, and physicians, GoodTime secures HIPAA certification, enabling more health organizations to fill roles quickly with fewer resources.

August 8, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO – GoodTime (goodtime.io), a leading provider of AI-powered scheduling software, proudly announces the achievement of HIPAA/HITECH Type 1 Compliance. With this certification, GoodTime empowers more healthcare organizations to fill roles faster in the face of a healthcare labor shortage by utilizing Hire, the company’s flagship interview scheduling platform.

Addressing the Healthcare Labor Shortage

Amidst a severe shortage of health aides, nurses, physicians, and other healthcare professionals, GoodTime’s HIPAA certification brings a timely solution to hiring teams in the healthcare industry. Consulting firm Mercer projects a shortage of over 400,000 home health aides and 29,400 nurse practitioners by 2025. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) predicts a potential shortage of up to 122,000 physicians by 2032. This scarcity of healthcare professionals has intensified the competition for talent, making it crucial to fill open roles quickly to meet the needs of healthcare companies and the patients they serve.

Enhanced Possibilities with GoodTime’s HIPAA Certification

Healthcare organizations are already bound to strict HIPAA guidelines for any systems that directly handle sensitive patient information. As an extra measure of security for all protected health information (PHI), many of these organizations strive to only use HIPAA-compliant systems, even when those systems don’t directly interface with patients.

GoodTime’s certification is a significant milestone that re-affirms the company’s commitment to healthcare organizations and sets them apart as the only interview scheduling provider that is HIPAA-compliant. By adhering to the highest industry standards for data security and privacy, GoodTime helps healthcare talent acquisition teams streamline and automate their hiring workflows, minimize resource requirements, and fill roles faster in the midst of the labor shortage.

Ahryun Moon, GoodTime Co-Founder and CEO, expressed enthusiasm about the recent HIPAA certification, highlighting its importance for healthcare organizations. Moon stated, “We are thrilled to have obtained the HIPAA certification, as it strengthens our dedication to healthcare organizations during this challenging time. With secure, automated, and efficient scheduling, healthcare hiring teams can fill open positions swiftly, without all the manual work, and ultimately deliver exceptional care to patients.”

Purpose-Built Features for High-Volume Healthcare Hiring

GoodTime Hire leverages AI to revolutionize the healthcare hiring process, particularly for high-volume roles in the context of the labor shortage. Healthcare organizations use Hire to significantly reduce time-to-fill and provide a standout candidate experience, even as talent acquisition teams have become leaner. Teams hiring for high-volume healthcare roles benefit from features like:

• SMS/WhatsApp messaging: Reach candidates via texting and WhatsApp to increase response rates and schedule faster.
• Workflow automation: Auto-trigger messages and reminders to candidates and hiring managers — and automate the entire interview process with an intuitive workflow editor.
• Screening and knockout questions: Stay focused on what matters and identify the most qualified talent automatically with screening questionnaires and knock-out questions.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better outcomes from their most important meetings by automating coordination, making sure the right people are in the room, and providing actionable meeting insights to hit goals faster.

The company’s flagship product, GoodTime Hire, helps hiring teams go beyond candidate experience and make every interview count. Hire uses AI to automate interview coordination, build better relationships during interviews, and deliver insights to continuously optimize the hiring process. Over 300 companies around the world like Slack, Box, HubSpot, Spotify, Okta, and Pinterest are getting to “yes” up to 70% faster with Hire. Learn more at goodtime.io.

Learn more about how GoodTime can help your organization with healthcare recruiting.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 4, 2023 – GoodTime, the world’s first Meeting Optimization Engine, today announced the launch of its newest product, GoodTime Hire for High Volume. This latest offering provides talent teams with advanced automated interview scheduling capabilities for high-volume roles through SMS, WhatsApp, and email messaging. The product’s fully-customizable workflow editor significantly improves recruiter productivity and reduces time spent on manual, repetitive tasks through automation of the entire interview coordination process including triggering messages, invites, and reminders when specific events occur.

This release expands GoodTime’s product line to now support companies hiring for both corporate and high-volume roles, delivering efficiency and payroll savings in today’s challenging hiring landscape.

The challenges of high-volume hiring

Getting in front of qualified talent as fast as possible is crucial to filling high-volume roles. However, high-volume recruiters often face a surplus of open positions and insufficient time to fill them using outdated and manual processes. This leads to delays in scheduling candidate interviews, lower response rates, and a subpar candidate experience.

In GoodTime’s 2023 Hiring Insights Report, sectors typically known for hiring high-volume roles—retail, manufacturing, and healthcare—reportedly met just 50% or less of their hiring goals in 2022. Looking to the future, one of the top challenges expected by these sectors is the limitations of their current hiring technology. Leveraging new, advanced technology and automation gives talent teams the best chance to hit their hiring goals and fill high-volume roles faster with fewer resources. 

With Hire for High Volume, talent teams can schedule interviews at scale through:

• Automated Interview Scheduling: Quickly schedule candidates 1:1 or in bulk through SMS, WhatsApp, and email
• SMS & WhatsApp Messaging: Reach candidates where they are with a mobile-first experience; mass-message or send personalized individual messages
• Customizable Workflow Automation: Automatically trigger messages to candidates and hiring managers for invites, reminders, and nudges to spend more time on high-value tasks
• Screening & Knock-out Questions: Identify the most qualified talent quickly with pre-built screening questionnaires and knock-out questions
• Integrates Into Current Processes: Message candidates directly from applicant tracking systems, Indeed, or any website, right from the browser

“The challenges of high-volume recruiting are unlike those encountered in corporate hiring,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO and Co-Founder of GoodTime. “With these unique hurdles comes the need for tech solutions tailored to high-volume recruiters. That’s where Hire for High Volume comes in. Our new product allows recruiters to quickly reach out to candidates, schedule interviews effortlessly, and let automation free up bandwidth and boost productivity for every recruiter on the team.”

Hire for High Volume is available now as an add-on to the flagship GoodTime Hire product or as a standalone product. For more information, visit goodtime.io.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled over seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.

May 2, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO – After surveying 531 talent acquisition leaders across sectors for its 2023 Hiring Insights Report, today GoodTime released the report’s manufacturing edition, featuring sector-specific insights. Based on responses from 106 talent acquisition (TA) leaders in manufacturing, the report highlights the challenges hiring leaders face to attract high volumes of qualified talent in the midst of a skills shortage and explores the changes they are making to meet their business objectives and achieve their hiring goals. 

The high-level findings from the 2023 Hiring Insights Report, Manufacturing Edition, include:

• Just 44% of hiring goals were met by manufacturing talent teams in 2022
• Limitations of their current hiring technology is the biggest challenge expected by talent leaders in the year ahead
• A staggering 69% of subjects reported layoffs; 19% reported a reduction in force of 20% or more
• 36% of respondents will improve time-to-hire and candidate relationships in the coming year
• 32% of TA leaders look to improve efficiency and automation in 2023

Economy hit manufacturing TA teams 

The report paints a stark picture of the obstacles faced by manufacturing TA leaders in the middle of the economic downturn and a manufacturing labor shortage, with 26% of respondents citing remote work compensation expectations, changes in hiring policies, and culture disconnect as the top challenges of 2022. In today’s economy, TA leaders must adapt their work structures, policies, and talent acquisition strategies to the new world of work while addressing the aftermath of layoffs.

Time-to-hire and candidate relationships a key focus

Looking ahead, talent leaders know that hitting their goals amid high-volume hiring challenges and the sector-wide skills shortage requires a fast, engaging hiring process. Reducing time-to-hire (36%) and cultivating relationships with candidates (36%) are tied for their top focus area in 2023. Addressing their biggest challenge for the coming year and upgrading their manufacturing recruitment software enables teams to deliver a well-rounded candidate experience and make headway on these top priorities.

“It’s clear that hiring teams in manufacturing are under significant strain,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO of GoodTime. “Filling their endless vacant roles with the most qualified talent possible requires teams to innovate their processes. Shifting their attention towards decreasing time-to-hire and genuinely connecting with candidates allows teams to create a comprehensive hiring process, one that places equal emphasis on speed and relationships.”

To access the full report, visit here.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled over seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.

April 18, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO – After surveying 531 talent acquisition leaders across sectors for its 2023 Hiring Insights Report, today GoodTime released the report’s retail edition, featuring sector-specific insights. Based on responses from 108 talent acquisition (TA) leaders in retail, the report highlights the challenges hiring leaders face to attract and retain high volumes of talent and explores the changes they are making to achieve their business objectives and hit their hiring goals. 

The high-level findings from the 2023 Hiring Insights Report, Retail Edition, include:

• Less than 50% of hiring goals were met by retail talent teams in 2022
• 41% of talent leaders say the increase in recruitment team turnover will impact their ability to hit their goals
• A staggering 70% of subjects reported layoffs; 32% reported a reduction in force of 20% or more
• 34% of respondents will improve personalization and the candidate experience in the coming year
• 33% of TA leaders look to improve overall efficiency in 2023

The economic downturn hit retail TA teams

The report details the difficulties faced by retail TA leaders in the midst of economic instability, with 25% of respondents citing applicants with inflated resumes and candidates with multiple offers as top challenges. Hybrid work challenges (24%) and unrealistic compensation expectations (24%) round out the biggest obstacles of 2022. In today’s economy, TA leaders must acquire skilled talent amid padded resumes and competing offers while also mitigating the impacts of layoffs.

Personalization and candidate experience a top priority

Looking ahead, 41% of talent leaders expect that the surge in recruitment team turnover will only make it harder to meet their goals. Winning talent with reduced headcount requires a refined, engaging hiring process. Increasing personalization (34%) and improving the candidate experience (34%) are tied for talent leaders’ top focus area, with boosting efficiency (33%) following closely behind. Upgrading their hiring tech stacks allows teams to deliver on these priorities with a personalized, streamlined candidate experience, no matter the hiring volume.

“Hiring teams in retail have numerous obstacles stacked against them,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO of GoodTime. “Addressing high turnover, filling vacancies and seasonal roles, and navigating high-volume hiring requires teams to reassess their operations for gaps and areas of improvement. Teams must center their efforts on refining the hiring process to deliver a well-rounded candidate experience, one that is equally engaging as it is efficient.” 

To access the full report, visit here.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled over seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.

April 4, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO – After surveying 531 talent acquisition leaders across sectors for its 2023 Hiring Insights Report, today GoodTime released the report’s financial services edition, featuring sector-specific insights. Based on responses from 109 talent acquisition (TA) leaders in financial services, the report highlights the hurdles hiring leaders face to win skilled talent amid layoffs and budget cuts and reveals how they plan on meeting their goals this year.

The high-level findings from the 2023 Hiring Insights Report, Financial Services Edition, include:

• Less than 50% of hiring goals were met by financial services talent teams in 2022
• The biggest challenge expected by talent leaders is limitations of hiring technology
• A staggering 71% of subjects reported layoffs; 26% reported a reduction in force of 20% or more
• 44% of respondents will improve hiring efficiency in the coming year
• 43% of TA leaders look to optimize automation in the hiring process in 2023

Economic downturn hit financial services hard

The report details the difficulties endured by financial services TA leaders as economic headwinds continue to impact the sector, with 33% of respondents citing applicants with inflated resumes as a top challenge. An overwhelming number of applicants (32%) and a lack of qualified candidates (31%) took second and third place as the biggest obstacles faced. In today’s economy, TA leaders must identify skilled candidates amid a deluge of resumes and a qualified talent deficit while navigating the effects of layoffs.

Efficiency and productivity a crucial focus

Looking to the future, the biggest challenge expected by talent leaders is the limits of their current hiring technology (34%). The top areas related to hiring that teams look to improve in 2023 are efficiency (44%), optimizing automation (43%), increasing personalization (42%), and upgrading hiring technology (42%). Leveraging new, advanced tech solutions allows teams to address their top reported challenge ahead and deliver on these key focus areas with a refined, compelling hiring process.

“We’re in the middle of a tough hiring and economic climate,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO of GoodTime. “Mass layoffs, shallow talent pools, and reduced resources only scratch the surface of the challenges bearing down on financial services companies. But in spite of these obstacles, the talent teams that shift their focus towards efficiency and streamlining the hiring process stand a much greater chance at hitting their goals.”

To access the full report, visit here.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled over seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.

March 28, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO – GoodTime, the world’s first Meeting Optimization Engine, today announced a new integration between its GoodTime Meet product, a scheduling software for remote and hybrid teams, and Gem, a talent engagement and analytics platform. Leveraged directly in Gem, the integration streamlines scheduling during the sourcing process by creating an automated experience for both recruiters and candidates.

Recruiters can synchronize Meet and Gem with just the click of a button from Gem’s settings. After recruiters add a Meet scheduling link from Meet’s Chrome extension or web app into their automated email sequences, Gem tracks when a candidate schedules a meeting and stops the sequence from sending further follow-ups. This eliminates the need for recruiters to manually track booked meetings and gives candidates an efficient experience.

“Talent professionals must aim to improve the candidate experience, and this is especially true when sourcing passive candidates. You want their experience to be as smooth and polished as possible,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO & Co-Founder at GoodTime. “This integration completely automates the scheduling process, creating a better candidate experience and saving time by eliminating back-and-forth emails. And now that recruiters don’t have to manually check when candidates schedule, their workload benefits as well.”

This integration of GoodTime Meet and Gem also allows recruiters to leverage company branding capabilities within Meet to share customized and branded scheduling pages seen by candidates. As a result, candidates receive a unique hiring experience and get to know the company’s brand from their very first first interaction with an organization.

“One of the things we hear constantly from talent professionals is that they struggle with tech stacks that aren’t integrated, and so they can’t offer a seamless candidate experience,” says Steve Bartel, CEO and Co-Founder at Gem. “And in this world in which talent brand perhaps matters more than ever, no hiring team can afford to overlook talent’s initial experience with their organization. We’re excited for this partnership and this integration because it will give passive talent that easeful experience—without taxing sourcers and recruiters in the process.”

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled more than seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.

About Gem

Gem’s talent engagement platform helps recruiting teams use data and automation to improve hiring speed, quality, and diversity.

Gem unifies data and context from the tools recruiters use every day, including email, applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn, and other social networks, to create a source of truth for all talent relationships. Armed with insights about the entire recruiting process, automation to reach out to talent at scale, and true cross-functional collaboration tools, TA teams can proactively and strategically plan for what’s ahead.

Gem’s customers are savvy recruiting teams from industry-leading companies—like Wayfair, Cintas, UnitedHealth Group, and Robinhood—who understand that hiring the best talent in the market is key to maintaining their competitive advantage.

March 21, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO – After surveying 531 talent acquisition leaders across sectors for its 2023 Hiring Insights Report, today GoodTime released the report’s healthcare edition, featuring sector-specific insights. Based on responses from 105 talent acquisition (TA) leaders in healthcare, the report highlights the obstacles resource-strained hiring leaders face to fill their many vacancies and explores the changes they are making to hit their goals in the year ahead. 

The high-level findings from the 2023 Hiring Insights Report, Healthcare Edition, include:

• Just 50% of hiring goals were met by healthcare talent teams in 2022
• The top challenge last year was limitations of current hiring technology
• A staggering 55% of subjects reported layoffs; 17% reported a reduction in force of 20% or more
• 42% of respondents will prioritize efficiency and improving time-to-hire in the hiring process in the coming year
• 40% of TA leaders look to improve the candidate experience in 2023

Technology limitations a top hiring challenge

The report paints a stark picture of difficulties faced by healthcare TA leaders over the past twelve months, with limitations of hiring technology ranking as one of the top challenges (30%). Changes in company hiring policies (30%) and hybrid work struggles (26%) round out the biggest obstacles of 2022. In today’s hiring environment, TA leaders must reassess and upgrade their healthcare recruiting software while adapting to ever-changing policies and demands for flexible work structures.

Efficiency and speed high on agenda

Looking to the future, talent leaders know that meeting their goals with reduced budgets and fewer resources requires an efficient, fast hiring process. Improving overall efficiency (42%) and time-to-hire (42%) are tied for their top focus area. Addressing their biggest challenge from the prior year and upgrading hiring technology allows teams to maximize their productivity and make headway on these top priorities.

“Ever since pre-pandemic times, we’ve seen the healthcare sector face an uphill battle,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO of GoodTime. “Keeping up with the sector’s high demand for talent while juggling staff turnover, burnout, and shallow candidate pools requires innovative solutions. Optimizing for efficiency and speed allows TA teams to deliver a smoother hiring process and an improved candidate experience without increasing the workload.”

To access the full report, visit here.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled over seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.

March 14, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO –  GoodTime, the world’s first Meeting Optimization Engine, today announced that it’s flagship product, GoodTime Hire for interview scheduling, is now available on SAP^® Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings. GoodTime Hire integrates with SuccessFactors and delivers advanced automated interview scheduling and intelligence to customers.

“The modern recruiting team is fighting an uphill battle on multiple fronts. The shortage of resources, partially due to recent layoffs, and an all-time low unemployment rate means teams must do more with less while still delivering against hiring goals,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO & Co-Founder, GoodTime. “Through this partnership, we combine the power of GoodTime Hire with SuccessFactors to help teams automate time-consuming scheduling activities, drastically increase productivity and efficiency, and ultimately reduce time-to-hire. By onboarding in the SAP platform, SuccessFactors clients now have access to GoodTime Hire to increase efficiency and productivity in their hiring process which is critical in today’s economic climate.”

GoodTime Hire helps talent acquisition teams improve productivity and efficiency through: 

• Automated Interview Scheduling: Easily coordinate single and multi-day interviews no matter the complexity
• High-Volume Messaging: Reach candidates directly through SMS or WhatsApp with personalized 1:1 messages or in bulk
• Intelligent Interviewer Matching: Find the best available interviewer instantly based on skills, focus area, and team, taking into account interviewer load limits
• Candidate Engagement and Experience: Accommodate candidates with candidate-driven availability selection and self-rescheduling, and collect anonymous feedback after each step of the interview process
• Data and Insights: Unlock data not available in your ATS and quickly identify opportunities for improvement with dashboards on recruiting, interviewers, interview time, and more

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About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled more than seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io

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March 7, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO – After surveying 531 talent acquisition leaders across sectors for its 2023 Hiring Insights Report, today GoodTime released the report’s technology edition, featuring sector-specific insights. Based on responses from 103 talent acquisition (TA) leaders in tech, the report highlights the challenges tech hiring leaders face in a tenuous economy and explores changes companies are making to weather the storm. 

The high-level findings from the 2023 Hiring Insights Report, Technology Edition, include:

• Only 52% of hiring goals were met by tech hiring teams in 2022
• 34% of subjects reported mental health and wellness concerns as a top challenge last year
• A whopping 57% of subjects reported layoffs; 22% reported a reduction in force of 20% or more
• 46% of respondents will increase personalization in the hiring process in the coming year
• Over 40% of TA leaders look to improve hiring efficiency and automation through better tech recruiting software in 2023

Economy hit tech TA teams especially hard

The report paints a stark picture of challenges endured by tech TA leaders over the past twelve months, with 34% of respondents citing mental health concerns as a top challenge. Adapting to a remote interview process (30%) and resume-skill mismatch (28%) took second and third place as the biggest challenges faced. In today’s economy, TA leaders must manage company expectations with reductions in force while being empathetic to employee burnout and navigating an ever-changing remote or hybrid interview process. 

Efficiency and automation a top focus 

Looking ahead, hiring leaders know that efficiency and automation are needed to deliver against hiring goals with less budget and fewer people. Hiring hurdles anticipated over the next 12 months include candidates withdrawing from the hiring process (30%) and parental work-life balance (27%), as candidates are only too ready to drop out of an inefficient process that doesn’t fulfill their expectations. A slow-moving, impersonal process that leaves candidates guessing is no longer an option for TA teams in tech to remain competitive. 

“We feel the pain that the tech sector is facing in this hiring climate,” said Ahryun Moon, CEO of GoodTime. “TA teams must improve efficiency and automate while creating a more bespoke candidate experience that sticks with top talent. Understanding challenges and opportunities, both past and present, helps hiring leaders to understand how best to set themselves up for future success.”

To access the full report, visit here.

About GoodTime

GoodTime helps people and companies drive better results from their most important meetings. The GoodTime Meeting Optimization Engine automates scheduling, ensures the right people are in the room, and provides actionable insights to meet smarter. Its flagship product, Hire, allows organizations to win top talent faster with Candidate Relationship Intelligence. Over 300 leading companies like Spotify, Slack, Pinterest, Okta, HubSpot, and Box have scheduled over seven million smart meetings with GoodTime. Learn more at goodtime.io.