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How to Make Your Job Postings Searchable on Major Job Boards
With over millions of job searches each month on major job boards like Monster, Indeed, and CareerBuilder, are you doing enough to make sure your job postings are searchable and stand out? When you think of Search Engine Optimization (or SEO), you probably think it...
How to Recruit, Hire, and Onboard the Best Employees
Recruiting, hiring, and onboarding are the three stages in the path to acquiring a happy, productive employee. At its core, each is about making a connection. A thorough understanding of the psychology of communication is the greatest tool one has in ensuring the...
Is Professional Networking Important?
Job openings today are frequently hyperspecialized, making it even harder to identify and hire qualified talent. Your network - and your colleagues' networks - can be one of the best sources for applicants. For candidates who are experts in a certain area,...
The Corporate Personality Test You Should Be Using
Are you an ENTJ? A Loyalist? Stronger in Activation, Command, or Ideation? Perhaps you're an Advocate, a Maestro, an Inquisitive Innovator, or an Architect. Each of these labels comes from a different corporate personality test used to segment applicants and...
How to Get A Candidate To Accept Your Job Offer
As a recruiter or hiring manager, you're going to feel the sting of rejection throughout your career. A 2017 survey found that over 90% of recruiters had had at least one job offer rejected in the past six months. So when you've got a big fish on the line, how do you...
Does Your Recruitment Process Meet a Candidate’s Needs?
In the third article in our series on the psychology of recruiting, we discuss the way in which the recruitment process meets the needs of the candidate. (See the first two articles Types of Unconscious Bias in Hiring and Onboarding New Employees with Social...
Onboarding New Employees with Social Learning
The field of psychology is ripe with revelations for human resources managers. (See our previous post on unconscious bias in hiring to learn more about how to recruit using psychology.) One of the most interesting aspects of psychological influences is that they are...
What Is a Job Posting?
Are you creating effective job postings? If you find yourself looking through dozens of unqualified candidates, the problem might be with the way you're advertising your openings. To understand how to write a listing that will attract the candidates you want, we have...
ApplicantStack New Logo
With the recent acquisition of ApplicantStack, we are updating our logo to match the SwipeClock branding. We are excited to unveil our new logo! We will now be a part of the WorkforceHUB suite: WorkforceHUB is a one-stop source for payroll and HR related...
How to Ensure Compliance with Company Policies
Company policies protect your business from frivolous lawsuits. They are designed to give equal opportunities to all employees, to create a safe work environment, and to inform workers about what they can expect from the leadership team. But even the most well-meaning...
How to Hit Recruitment Metrics
If your recruitment metrics have taken a dive recently, you may want to consider investing in recruiting software like an applicant tracking system. But don't take our word for it! Independent research has found that technology can significantly improve key...