Want Seamless Hiring and Recruiting Strategies? Get on the Same Page
You should be on the same team, but hiring managers and recruiters don’t always speak the same language. Miscommunication leads to slower processes, more unqualified applicants and fewer of those...
View ArticleRecruiters: Improve Your Email Writing With These 8 Tips
Anyone who works now must get to grips with email writing, and this is especially true for those in recruitment. A good email can make or break a potential hire, so it’s essential that you get it...
View ArticleKey Attributes for Designing High-End Job Descriptions
You will often come across articles online which provide advice for job seekers on how to maximize their chances of getting a good job by improving their resume. But, what most employers and...
View ArticleSeven Hiring Tips from HR Pros
The modern recruiting process is much different from what it used to be. Today, all information about the candidates you’re interested is within reach. You just need to google their names. Still, the...
View ArticleTalent Acquisition Pros: Ask This, Not That
How old are you? What’s your marital status? Do you have any children? You probably wouldn’t be as bold as to ask those questions outright. However, framing them in a more palatable way doesn’t make...
View Article5 Great Talent Acquisition Habits of Highly Effective Recruiters
Top hiring professionals don’t get there accidentally. The people who are at or near the top in the industry tend to have a similar set of habits and values that propel them forward ahead of the rest....
View Article7 Ways to Capture Job Candidate Attention When They Aren’t Looking
Time to hire is growing. Cost per hire is, too. According to SHRM, the average cost in 2016 was over $4,000. And although most people who want a job already have one, company loyalty is becoming a...
View ArticleHelping the Full Employment Economy Work in Favor of Talent Acquisition
The More You Know About Candidates the More Power You Have to Win Them Where do the candidates you want to hire spend time? They’re not frequenting job boards, for certain, but they are online. Social...
View ArticleWhy the Talent Acquisition Pipeline Matters More in a Full Employment Economy
With nearly everyone who wants a job already employed, talent acquisition has its work cut out. The candidates that you need aren’t looking, so you have to help them tune in. But are you looking in all...
View ArticleJob Candidates Talk: How Talent Acquisition Skills Hurt or Help Your Brand
Ready for an eye-opener? A whopping 74 percent of people who already have a job are open to something new and better. That’s according to the 2016 Jobvite Job Seeker Nation study. But there’s a caveat:...
View Article3 Ways Big Data Can Improve Critical Hiring KPIs
Technology lets you look out from today into a more productive tomorrow. It makes the work of HR professionals simpler and more effective, but that’s just the beginning. Using predictive analytics,...
View ArticleWhat’s the Number One Emerging Hiring Metric for 2018?
What’s the top emerging hiring key performance indicator for 2018? It’s a trick question. According to an array of talent industry professionals, the most important KPI is one that, when improved, has...
View ArticleA Competitor’s Loss is Your Talent Sourcing Gain
You probably take care of your employees, but not every company has the same philosophy. Some of them haven’t gotten the memo about this being a job seeker’s market and some have their priorities...
View ArticleDon’t Let Unhappy Employees Kill Your Brand
Do you know how satisfied and engaged your employees really are? People who stay with the same company longer than two or three years are becoming the exception, not the rule. And in such a competitive...
View ArticleThese Talent Acquisition Metrics Get the C Suite’s Attention
The C suite might not care about application completion rates, time to hire, and other metrics that make the human resources world go round. You use them. They belong in HR. But company executives...
View ArticleWhy Happy Employees are Your Best Talent Acquisition Tool
About one-third of new employees quit before they reach their six-month anniversary. One-third of them knew they’d leave within the first week. On the flip side, TLNT Talent Management & HR says...
View ArticleAre You Overlooking a Job Candidate Goldmine?
If you look for talent acquisition gold in a tapped out stream, you’ll come up with a pan full of sand. But if you stake another claim upstream, you might find some bright, shiny prospects. RELATED:...
View ArticleDevelop a Mentoring Talent Strategy that Brings Seasoned Pros and New Stars...
As more of the Baby Boomer generation moves toward retirement, carefully honed skill sets become an increasingly rare commodity for employers. Fresh, new job candidates enter the workforce every day,...
View ArticleWhat the Talent Acquisition Pipeline of the Future Might Look Like
With the rise of the gig economy and unemployment progressively lower, casting a line into the same pool of candidates can yield disappointing talent acquisition results. Diversifying where you source,...
View ArticleEmployee Skills Shortage Could be a Bigger Problem in 2018
It’s no secret that great job candidates are few and far between these days. Employment is up, unemployment is down, and just like two days before prom, most people are already accounted for. But HR...
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