Higher Education Cheat Sheet – 4 Proven Strategies to Increase Enrollment this Fall
Over the past two years, postsecondary enrollment has decreased by 7.4% in the US. If that stat doesn’t get you thinking of new strategies to increase intake at your school this year, nothing will!
With such intense competition among universities and colleges, grabbing the attention of prospective students is no easy feat. And this is only half the battle – you now need to prove that your school is the right choice for them. While this is a complex battle, there is one very straightforward but crucial element that you must get right – student support.
This guide will lay out 4 cost-effective strategies that any school can adopt to help them engage with more prospective students and increase enrollment this fall. You’ll also find success stories from other higher education institutions like Thompson Rivers University and Cambrian College who are benefiting from these strategies.
Download this slideshare and start reversing the enrollment decline!
Higher Education – Live Chat & Chatbot Benchmark Data 2022
Live chat teams in higher education achieved an average 88.8% customer satisfaction score (CSAT) in 2021.
Analyzing chats that passed through the Comm100 platform in 2021, we have calculated the latest live chat and chatbot benchmarks in higher education. With these stats at hand, universities and colleges can understand how well they are performing compared to their peers and learn where they need to improve. The report also provides best practices so higher education institutions can realize the potential of live chat and chatbots.
Download this report to find out the latest live chat and chatbot benchmarks in higher education, including:
- Customer satisfaction (CSAT)
- Wait time
- Chat duration
- Mobile live chats
- Total chats handled by chatbots
SkyPrep – The LMS Without The Mess
Empower your organization with knowledge that matters
Provide a seamless training experience for your employees, customers, and partners to accelerate growth and drive business success.
Organizations choose SkyPrep when they experience:
- High training costs and complex logistics with in-person training.
- Time-consuming manual record-keeping for compliance requirements.
- Difficulty providing standardized, consistent training companywide.
- High employee turnover (Call centers, fast food, retail).
- Inability to easily track learner progress and see who has overdue training.
- Training that led to knowledge gaps and poor employee performance.
- Difficulty training employees and franchisees in various remote locations.
- Disjointed training and need to scale, formalize and streamlinetraining.
Improve your online training today with SkyPrep!
SkyPrep: Training Smarter, Faster!
SkyPrep's team are e-learning professionals deploying proven and intuitive online training solutions — fast!
Serving 1,000,000+ users from 500+ companies, SkyPrep has won awards for its ease-of-use, cutting-edge performance, and outstanding customer support.
SkyPrep's Mission:
- Proven Solution: Trusted by more than 500 companies to take their employee training to the next level.
- Award-Winning: Recognized for providing an industry-leading, turnkey solution by experts including Capterra, Software Advice, and G2 Crowd.
- Easy-to-Use: Intuitive and user-friendly for both Administrators and Learners – even for non-technical users.
- A Committed and Knowledgeable Support Team: Every client is paired with a dedicated account manager with years of eLearning experience to help unlock the full potential of the platform.
Improve your online training today with SkyPrep!
Recognizing And Addressing Hiring Biases
When you’re a part of a hiring team, your job is to find the best candidates. However, this becomes a challenge when unconscious biases come into play.
Fortunately, there are a number of strategies that you can employ in order to shut down bias before they creep in.
In this pre-recorded webinar we met with Kehsi Iman Wilson, a DE&I and social justice trainer and educator, and CEO of High Quality Talent.
Key takeaways from the webinar:
- Actionable steps you can take to provide recruiters with training on biases and hiring
- Examined strategies to manage the unconscious biases we all hold
- How to make the hiring process more inclusive
- The effectiveness of blind recruitment, and whether it should be implemented
- How to come up with an impersonal resume review system
- Diversity and inclusion job boards that recruiters should be looking at
Learn how to recognize and address hiring biases at your organization!
Recruitment Metrics to Power Your Hiring Strategies
Did you know that 71% of companies see people analytics as a high priority, but only 8% report they have usable data, according to Deloitte?
Utilitizing recruitment metrics allows you to evaluate your hiring process and ensure that you stay on track with your company’s strategies and goals.
In this pre-recorded, 45 minute webinar, we were joined by Richard Brown, Lead Talent and DE&I Business Partner at McLaren Racing, to discuss the recruitment metrics that have helped them to improve their DE&I progress.
Brown deep-dives into the following:
- How recruitment metrics are set up at McLaren Racing
- How these metrics impact everyday business decisions
- Ways to recruit more intelligently using real-life examples
Learn how to use recruitment metrics to power your hiring strategies!
How To Get Your Employer Branding Right
The best talent has plenty of options, so differentiating your organization is critical. The time to start thinking about positioning your company as a great employer is long before you ever post a job or interview a candidate.
In this pre-recorded, 45 minute webinar, we were joined by Maria Rodriguez, Global HR Director of HireRight, where we discussed:
- How companies can maintain a strong employer brand during times of crisis and the story they should be telling
- How recruiters and hiring managers who don’t have buy-in from management can get support for employer branding initiatives
- How can hiring professionals ensure their employer branding is both authentic and compelling
- The best ways to measure the success of employer branding campaigns
Learn how you can shape your employer brand so that it is both authentic and compelling to candidates and employees.
Hire Better Together – An Introduction to Collaborative Hiring
For many companies, the key to success in today’s candidate driven market is adopting a collaborative hiring process, turning their hiring practices into a team sport.
Collaborative hiring creates a better candidate experience, which will help you to attract and retain great talent.
What is collaborative hiring? Collaborative hiring is a team-based hiring method that structures the recruitment process to get colleagues from other parts of the company more involved.
To introduce you to collaborative hiring, this ebook covers:
- A step by step explanation of the collaborative hiring process
- Tips on setting up a collaborative hiring strategy at your organization
- Insight’s from Perry Oostdam, Recruitee’s CEO and Co-Founder on the outcomes and rewards of collaborative hiring
Download this ebook to learn how to hire better, together.
Hiring In 2022: From Home to Hybrid
The last few years have brought about a new reality of working from home all around the world. Now, many companies are going hybrid.
New remote and hybrid policies and technologies take time to create and implement. So what should we do to be better prepared for the future?
To help you navigate these new ways of work, this report is covers:
- A look forward to the future of hybrid hiring
- A synopsis of remote hiring since 2020 from the perspective of recruiters, executives, and HR professionals
- Actionable tips on overcoming challenges in implementing a remote or hybrid hiring plan
Download this report to learn how to better adapt to the changing hiring landscape: be it remote, in the office, or hybrid.
5 Step Framework On: A Winning Candidate Pipeline
The longer your hiring process is, the higher the cost of hiring. 40% of industry professionals said it takes them more than four weeks to hire new talent. With a carefully curated and well-maintained pipeline, you can ensure you always have access to a network of top-quality talent, making it easier to recruit when the need arises and reducing your cost and time to hire.
To help you optimize your pipelining efforts and make the best use of your time, here is a five-step framework for building and nurturing high-caliber talent and providing a great candidate experience to all.
This framework covers:
- Identification of candidate profiles and pipeline goals
- Strategies for building a stand-out employer brand
- Proactive sourcing techniques
- Steps to engage your pipeline
- Top HR Tech tools to help you measure progess
Build a candidate pipeline that’s fit for purpose.
Reimagine Your Employer Brand: The Current State of Employer Branding
A successful employer brand will bring the right talent to your organization. With the candidate-driven market that has emerged in the era of the Great Resignation, employer branding has become even more relevant.
Employer branding can help you attract, engage, and retain the right talent. However, 60% of companies lack an active employer branding strategy. Dedicating time and energy to your employer brand pays off - it makes your company an even better place to work! It's time for an employer brand refresh.
To help you on your way to success, this guide is packed with:
- Practical advice on how to build a strong employer brand
- Key industry statistics
- Actionable insights to elevate your careers site
Make sure you’re the brand employees love and applicants can’t wait to be part of.
CoreanGen Case Study
When the global crisis hit, CorneaGen faced a monumental challenge. The company’s days sales outstanding (DSO) was averaging 73-78 days and invoices older than 150 days represented $1.5 million of revenue. This situation needed to improve quickly, or the organization would risk facing serious cash flow problems.
The AR team struggled with significant inefficiencies caused by poor AR practices. When invoicing, old credit notes were applied to outstanding invoices. This meant that when a customer took a credit note, CorneaGen’s team had to spend time reconciling information in the invoice history. This stalled the process and took time away from revenue-generating activities.
YayPay seamlessly integrated with CorneaGen’s NetSuite ERP to unlock the company’s financial data. The team immediately benefitted from having data organized and presented on centralized, cloud-based dashboards. Customization capabilities enabled the team to create reportable fields for data, which eliminated the time previously spent scrolling through endless customer information.
Learn more about how YayPay transformed CorneaGen’s AR team – download the case study!
Four Things to Look for in a Call Center Software
This guide is written to all salespeople, sales managers, VPs, IT, customer service and general management (CEO, CTO, CFO). It should be a required reading for an-yone that is part of the decision to expand to a call cen-ter. It is specifically written to those companies that have outgrown the typical ways of cold calling and desire to move into a full-fledged call center program to accel-erate company growth.
Within this document we will focus on the importance of the following in a call center software:
- Stable platform on which to base the system
- Enterprise-grade, full-featured software
- Extremely easy to use
- Works for your budget
Fast Food Chain Order Voicebot via Dialogflow
Our client is one of the leaders within the fast-food industry. Their aim was to gain a competitive advantage by processing orders faster than industry average, even during peak periods.
To achieve such success, the client wanted to deploy a voicebot. This voicebot was to ensure problem-free deliveries and improve customer satisfaction rates.
They asked for an AI solution with machine learning capabilities that can support phone orders, and Call Center Studio delivered.
World’s Third Biggest University Interactive Chat Response (ICR)
Our client is a prestigious university with high enrollment rates. Before Call Center Studio, they used to outsource their call center operations. However, the company wasn’t able to address the high demand during peak seasons such as registration/enrollment and exam periods.
The client also had a chat platform operating on Adobe to help decrease call traffic by navigating students to chat services. However, Adobe’s infrastructure requires updates from all end-users, which actually complicated things even further.
Eventually, students would experience trouble with the chat service and end up calling the university’s call center. The chat system was also unable to direct the students to the correct representative. Thus, the call center agents were overwhelmed with all the chat-related calls when they already had their plates full.
Call Center Studio exceeded expectations by using ICR to solve the problems, providing the university with a huge efficiency boost.
