Corporate Social Responsibility and Reverse Recruiting
Let's Change More Lives Together
Recruiters know exactly what it takes for a candidate to land an interview and find the right job. SmartRecruiters processes millions of rejected candidates on our platform every year.
Let's turn this unpleasant situation into a positive outcome!
That's why Reverse Recruiting was created, an initiative that offers assistance to job seekers who have experienced difficulty finding stable, long term employment. Among them are immigrants, veterans, formerly incarcerated individuals, parents and caregivers returning to work, as well as senior citizens.
Since Reverse Recruiting started in February 2019 the movement has spread globally through live workshops. We've helped connect close to 1,000 people with 500 recruiters representing various companies to improve their resumes, interview skills, personal brand, and more! Learn more about past events
See what Ali, a former participant, says about it
Recruiters, here are ideas on how to participate
(in order of increasing impact)
- Take the pledge to Reverse Recruiting, access all the resources to organize your own events and stay informed about upcoming events where you could participate
- Participate in a session organized by SmartRecruiters and other organizations
- Invite a few job seekers (from a nonprofit organization near you, among candidates you met during hiring processes, or job seekers in your network), and work on their applications for a few hours
- Invite your company to participate and host a larger event. Recruiters and hiring managers can each mentor 2-3 job seekers during a 3-hour session in your offices. It is also a great idea for recruiting team offsite! Learn more about the concept
- Do you have many rejected candidates in your database?
- Would you like to give back to them?
- Would your recruiters & hiring managers find meaning in helping them?
Recruiters & Hiring Managers mentor overlooked candidates on:
- Resume building
- Interview preparation
- Storytelling
providing individual support to people who have a hard time translating and selling their valuable skills, experience biases and have often been rejected multiple times throughout their application processes.
Overlooked candidates are unfortunately countless:
- Immigrants
- Veterans
- Formerly incarcerated individuals
- Parents and caregivers returning to work
- Seniors
- Minority communities
- And all the candidates that were rejected during previous recruitments.
We host these sessions once a quarter in our offices around the world.
All it takes is:
- Confirm the date & locations
- Create an invite for recruiters and candidates
- Invite your internal participants
- Reach out to your rejected candidates (through SmartRecruit) in the selected locations
All resources available to organize and host:
All you need to Reverse Recruit!Job Seekers, why participate
Because for once recruiters will work for you. They will listen to your story, your objectives, assess your resume, tell you how to make it more impactful, train you through mock interviews and many more tricks they have learned and are here to share with you! Learn more about the past sessions
How does it work?
- Follow Reverse Recruiting on Facebook or LinkedIn to stay informed about future events around the world
- Register for the session you want
- Participate in the session you registered for and get personalized advice from expert recruiters on*:
- Your resume
- Your LinkedIn profile
- Interview preparation
- Personal Branding
*topics may vary depending on sessions, please check the details in the event you are choosing
- Do you struggle finding the job that you want?
- Are you wondering if your resume is noticed by recruiters?
- Are job interviews a challenge for you?
- Does the question “tell me a bit about yourself” stress you?
Jerome Ternynck, CEO and Founder SmartRecruiters, launches the movement at Hiring Success, February 19th. More than 60 recruiters took the pledge that day
300 job seekers and 300 TA leaders came together at Hiring Success to close the conference with mock interviews. It was an eye opening and extremely valuable experience that gave everyone hope, skills to land a job, and long term mentorship. It was a powerful act of inclusion opened by SF Mayor London Breed in collaboration with 32 NGOs and 300 enterprises
After 200+ job seekers, refugees, people with disabilities, LGBTQs, meet 200+ recruiters for simultaneous mock interviews, so many lives are impacted
We teamed up with aequa again and hosted twenty candidates. Four external recruiting experts from various Berlin-based companies joined hiring managers from SmartRecruiters in advising overlooked candidates on CV and job interview. After the presentations, we had two Q&A sessions, where the candidates could pick our expert’s brains.
We had about 25 job seekers attend the session. We started the event with a 90-minute presentation on “how to create a great resume / LinkedIn account and how to prepare well for a job interview”. After the presentation, the overlooked candidates joined the group and began with a resume overview and mock interviews. We were able to pair every job seeker up one on one, to ensure they got all the attention they needed.
SmartRecruiters and Disability Solutions partnered to bring in 30 job seekers with visible and invisible disabilities. First, Disability Solutions gave a 45-minute presentation on “dispelling fear and stigma”. Giving our recruiters the answers they needed around hiring individuals with disabilities. After the presentation, the job seekers joined the group and began with a resume overview and mock interviews.
Individual consultations with SmartRecruiters’ recruiters and hiring managers for job seekers struggling overcoming biases. As stated by Lionel, a 50-year old purchasing executive, understanding the point of view of the recruiter was a chance he never had before.
We hosted 12 job seekers - mostly our rejected candidates joining us in our Krakow office. They all got feedback from recruiters on how to frame that towards improving their resumes and job opportunities. They got tips on resume building, mock interviews on site, and networking time.
WakeUp Cafe trusted Reverse Recruiting for a training session of formerly incarcerated people on resume building and interview preparation. 3 participants found a job in the weeks following the session and confirmed it was a game changer for them.
We teamed up with aequa and hosted 12 candidates from their network. After the presentation about CV and job interviews, SmartRecruiters’ hiring managers and Sarah Joy Lynch (aequa Co-Founder & Executive Director) gave individual CV advice to our candidates.
The Spokane office hosted Global Neighborhood nonprofit! Individuals from Afghanistan, Chad, Congo, Ethiopia, Marshall Islands, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Ukraine were provided with resources around interviewing training and resume building!
SmartRecruiters UK team collaborated with Catch 22, a social business that “works at every stage of the social welfare cycle to build resilience and aspiration in people and communities.” They invited candidates in the London metropolitan area that had recently been turned down for jobs to discuss building their personal brand and interview techniques.
Recruiters from the following companies already took the Reverse Recruiting pledge
Our Corporate Social Responsibility program also includes
Pledge 1%
SmartRecruiters took the 1% Equity Pledge, committing to develop a foundation aligned with its mission to “connect [all] people to jobs at scale.”
Discount for non-profits
SmartRecruiters provides small non-profits with our free SmartStart package and offers larger non-profits a 50% discount off our Modern Enterprise Recruiting Platform in combination with an elevated support package at no cost.
We'll send you the Reverse Recruiting Day toolkit to help you get started