World Congress 2024 • Aug 20, 2024 • Session details

Recruitment Reinvented: Bold strategies and the $10K signing incentive

Barbara Pirrera, Mathilde Verlaine

Stop paying external recruiters and embrace resume-free hiring. Odoo shifted to gamified technical puzzles, using the saved agency fees to fund a $10,000 signing bonus for developers.

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4:07 min

Overcoming traditional corporate reservations toward recruitment gamification

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Adapting recruitment for modern technical talent

Ana Gospodinova

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3:31 min

Bridging the disconnect between technical recruiters and engineering candidates

Chris Heilmann

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2:42 min

Shifting from traditional applications to interactive candidate play

Julian Holtstiege

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Prioritizing candidate strategies and selecting optimal recruiting tooling

Alla Pavlova

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Structuring a transparent and fair interview process

Ana Gospodinova

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