The Gem Blog

7 Strategies for Reducing Unconscious Bias in Candidate Pre-Screening

Gem's data shows that unconscious bias has the strongest impact on diversity initiatives at the very top of the funnel. Here are 7 ways to mitigate that bias in candidate pre-screening stages.

Attracting Female Talent for a More Gender-Equitable Pipeline

Data from 2 million recruiting sequences shows that men are receiving 2-3x more outreach and are 7% more likely to respond. That’s not going to equal gender parity in your pipeline. Here's what to include in your outreach to female talent.

Gem Product Update: October 2021

This month’s product update is coming a bit later than usual, but we promise, it's not because we were ghosting you. In fact, we’ve got a lot of great updates we wanted to share in this month’s bag of treats (and no tricks!)

Talent Pool Management and Long-Term Talent Nurture

Talent pool management is the range of processes you have in place to cultivate and nurture meaningful relationships with talent while showcasing your employer brand and keeping your data—which is their information—clean. Here's how.

9 Ways to Build an Effective Talent Pool

The window between the right candidate and the right opportunity rarely aligns—at least not the first time around. Building a talent pool ensures you don’t lose the talent you’ve worked so hard to find. Here’s how to do so.

The Top 7 Talent Operations KPIs

Talent Operations KPIs get set in the context of broader company goals and the team’s specific operational (in)efficiencies. But there's a set of metrics Talent Ops should pay attention to no matter what. Here are our top 7 Ops metrics.

Creating a Recruitment Marketing Strategy

Recruitment marketing is a strategy for attracting and engaging the best talent through tailored content, personalized nurture campaigns, and long-term multi-channel engagement. Here's how to build your recruitment marketing strategy.

Gem Product Update: September 2021

Branded email campaigns, executive dashboards for Lever customers, SMS messages in sequence stages... while our Series C announcement's been rolling out from Gem, we certainly haven't slowed down on the product front! Here's what's new.

Gem Raises $100M to Transform How Companies Hire and Grow

It’s clear the problem Gem is solving is pervasive and quickly growing in importance for almost every company in the world. As a result, we’ve just raised $100M in Series C funding at a $1.2B valuation to enable us to move even faster.