Category: Recruiting

So many companies these days struggle to have their employer brand identity seen and heard. Whether it’s a lack of insight on how to gain traction with advertising, too small a budget, not having enough time to put into the company’s social media presence, or another of the many common difficulties, the road that leads […]

The cloud—you’ve heard of it, but do you know what it is or how it can help you in your recruiting? Put simply, cloud computing, or “software as a service” (SAAS), is a software solution that allows you to access information on your browser over the Internet. It can be any kind of information accessed […]

The recent Forbes article “HR Executives Need to Think Like the CMO,” by Bertrand Dussert, suggested that HR executives should operate like chief marketing executives. While the article makes a lot of good points, I think this kind of approach is a little ambitious, since HR executives face huge challenges just managing the workforce. It’s […]

There’s a lot of competition for top talent in the workplace. Companies finding narrowing pools of candidates have started dipping into other industries for top contenders. The way to attract candidates has changed. Companies have to appeal to younger generations and job postings have to stand out to attract the best of the best. With […]

Social media has forever changed the recruiting landscape. People on both sides of the line—recruiters and job-seekers—are using social media to find each other. Recruiters are scouring social media profiles for potential candidates, posting job ads on social networks, and promoting their company’s brand. Job-seekers are searching for jobs on company pages and networking with […]

I like negotiating, and I believe everything is negotiable. However, there can be a lot of confusion and frustration within the process. In order to help relieve some of that frustration, we are about to break down the dos and don’ts to keep in mind when you’re negotiating salary. You’ve interviewed the candidate, and now […]

Have you ever accidentally hired a “not” employee? You know, the kind that you absolutely wish you had not hired: someone who should not be working at your company, is not a good fit, but is also not underperforming and not doing anything so terrible that you have to let them go? I could go […]

Most recruiters are professional networkers with masterful intuition and expert knowledge of legal matters. These are all praise-worthy skills, but what’s often missing is a background in numbers and statistics. This is not unique to recruiters — many professions require workers to be really good at certain skills while others languish. For instance, musicians are […]

Recruiting and hiring candidates for data entry positions isn’t as easy as it used to be. The skills needed to do the job have changed. What candidates are looking for in the position has changed. And even the actual job description and requirements are different. What was once strictly a data-entry job is now often […]

At its core, recruiting is a biased task—judging people from a piece of paper that lists their accomplishments; interacting with them in what most describe as a nerve-racking ordeal (the interview); ultimately choosing someone as best you can, based on a compilation of clues and assumptions that they’ll do the job right. The inherent bias […]

The age-old debate of whether it’s better to use an outside agency or go with an internal team to conduct your company’s recruiting is full of pros and cons. It’s a decision most companies and organizations must face at some point, and the choice depends on a number of factors: the company’s recruiting needs, the […]

In the HR world of business recruiting—whether you’re working for a staffing agency or a private company—finding the best candidates exactly when you need them is rarely simple. More often than not, the hiring process is muddled by an overwhelming number of less-than-qualified candidates for the position you need filled, along with a small number […]