Category: Recruiting

These days, it’s more important than ever to make sure that employees have all the skills they need to succeed in their jobs. The more you can find out about your applicants’ education, experience, and skills before hiring them, the more likely you are to end up with the best candidate who will excel in […]

These days it seems that everything is technology-based, so it’s no surprise that many of the recruiting functions we are used to doing manually are now available online. Pre-employment assessments and employment testing are among many recruiting functions that have been taken over by the tech world. A myriad of employment testing services now offers […]

As HR professionals, we’re tasked with finding the best candidates to fill positions in our companies. One of our many roles is to research, find, and recruit the people who will add their skills and experience to our organization’s workforce. Knowing where to find the candidates we need is important, but we also need to […]

When hiring someone, there are so many questions a recruiter has to ask. But it’s important to get all of the information you need to asses whether a candidate is a good fit for your organization. Office cultural fit is becoming increasingly important, and the skills needed to do different jobs are becoming more and […]

Every hiring manager and recruiter knows that the hiring process can be long and arduous, but it hasn’t been this long and arduous in many years. According to Dice Holdings, a career sites provider, the average length of time it takes to fill an open position has increased by a whopping 73 percent, from 15.3 […]

Hiring an inexperienced employee may seem to be risky, but it can help a company grow in ways that would not be possible if you only hired very experienced employees for the long term. Past experience plays a key role in how well and quickly an employee will adapt to a new company’s culture, office […]

The world of applicant tracking systems (ATS) is a crowded one. With more than 1,100 on the market today, choosing one can be a challenge to your decision-making skills. There are solutions for small companies, medium-sized companies, and large companies, although there are fewer solutions for small companies. Most are web-based, which helps with the […]

Automated resume screening systems are currently in use at almost every large company in the world. With the economy on an upturn, employers are on track to start recruiting in larger numbers. And in order to keep up with the demand, automated resume screening systems are becoming almost a necessity in today’s workplace. The only […]

“The Skills Gap,” “The Talent Gap,” and the “The War for Talent” are phrases we hear all too often as Human Resource professionals and talent acquisition authorities. I first heard those terms in 2009 at the height of the recession, when the unemployment rate was nearly 10% in America. I didn’t want to believe that […]

There is a long and sometimes rigid history of differences between recruiters and managers over the best practices for hiring and retaining employees. This disconnect between managers and recruiters usually stems from not understanding what each other’s roles are when it comes to hiring, firing, performance reviews, and everything else involving the personnel file of […]

“With the high cost of recruiting, business leaders must understand that effectively integrating new hires into the organization is an important step to ensure their success.” – Talya N. Bauer, Onboarding New Employees: Maximizing Success One of the biggest responsibilities of an HR department is the acquisition and management of new talent. Losing an employee […]

One of the hardest recession-based habits for major companies to break is the low-ball compensation offer. Many companies are still offering what I like to call “recession wages.” During the recession of 2008–2012, the mantra was to do more with less and cut costs as much as possible. The terms “streamline” and “lean” were quite […]