Attracting, hiring and retaining top talent is not a game of chance — it’s all about strategy. In fact, there are right ways, wrong ways and optimal ways to go about hiring that can increase your chances of attracting the right people for your open roles. When...
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Stay up to date with our most recent news and updatesRecruitment Metrics: Measuring Your Efforts
The job market is a dynamic, living thing that demands adaptability. For businesses of every size, intuition and personal connection are vital for finding ideal candidates. But they are only part of the hiring puzzle: analyzing recruitment metrics gives a more...
Recruiting Top Talent: A Guide to Successful Hiring
In most cases, and for most job openings, recruiters want to secure top industry talent for their open roles. Why? Beyond being the most qualified or suitable person for the position, top performers come packaged with an array of benefits that can give organizations a...
Using Paid Online Advertising for Recruitment Marketing
Connecting job seekers with hiring managers happens in a variety of ways. Word-of-mouth, networking, promoting from within, cold calling: these are all tried-and-true methods to find candidates for open positions. The speed of technological advancement has changed the...
Embracing ‘Boomerang’ Employees and Getting Top Talent Back
One of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is referred to as “the great resignation.” During this time, which began in 2021, employees resigned from their positions en masse. According to some estimates, more than 50 million employees voluntarily left their roles,...
9 Helpful Steps to Speed Up the Hiring Process
The ever-changing job market demands that businesses of all sizes adapt to find the best candidates in the hiring pool. Speed of hiring can make or break a job seeker’s experience with your company. According to The Society of Human Resource Management, it can take...
5 Challenges of Remote Onboarding and How To Overcome Them
The onboarding process can be both intimidating and exciting for employees and employers. However, onboarding in a fully remote environment can make it even more difficult. In this blog, we’re discussing some of the top challenges a new remote employee might face with...
Boost Employee Retention Rates with 5 Actionable Tips
Hiring new employees is a huge time investment. Growing your small business sometimes takes labor from various departments, with hiring contributions from a lot of people. After all that, you want to be sure the new hires stick with you and become valued members of...
Are Applicants Ghosting You? Here’s How to Stop It
The term “ghosting” originated in the app-heavy world of online dating. Two people start communicating past the first inbox message. Then, one party disappears without a “sorry, but” message, never to be heard from again. In job seeking, ghosting refers to when either...
Your Guide to Video Recruitment Marketing
Recruitment has become more challenging in the recent past. Between the tight labor market, increased competition for top talent and an aging population, recruiters have faced new difficulties when trying to find and bring on new hires. Helping your company and open...
9 In-Demand Skills to Look For in 2024
When you’re looking to bring on top talent, you may find yourself scanning resumés for specific skills. We’re outlining nine of the most in-demand skills to look for in 2024, including both hard and soft skills and how they differ. What are Hard and Soft Skills? Hard...
13 Questions to Ask in Your Next Interview
Most people looking for a job can rattle off a series of the most common interview questions without even thinking about it. At its core, the interview process is a way to get to know how your candidate will perform at work. Conventional wisdom says the old standby...