In any recruitment process, you’re trying to fill a position as quickly as possible while keeping expenses under control. It’s a lot to think about. However, there’s another concern to keep in mind: providing a good candidate experience. You might think this represents a relatively minor consideration. However, it can have a significant long-term impact. [...]
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The hardest part of the recruiting process? It’s making the final decision. Usually, it means rejecting several likable, engaging, extremely qualified individuals. It’s a shame to let all those great candidates move on to the competition. There is an alternative. By adding those rejected candidates to your talent pipeline, you set yourself up for the [...]
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Why does getting ghosted feel so much different than being rejected? Part of it has to do with the mystery involved. Where did they go? What did we do wrong? What's happening here? Ghosting in personal circumstances is one thing. In business, it can have concrete financial consequences. A disappearing job candidate, especially late in [...]
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As it already has in a number of other industries, artificial intelligence is poised to drive major changes in the HR field. By adding AI to your hiring process, you can streamline your recruitment operation and improve your results. There’s still time to gain a competitive advantage by adding AI. A study conducted by CareerBuilder [...]
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Temporary employees provide a great way to augment your team. They offer flexibility and the ability to handle sudden surges in orders. However, hiring temp workers can be tricky. You need a good process to make sure you get the highest level of productivity you can. Without the right procedures in place, temps can become [...]
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Your recruiting efforts ultimately get judged the same way as any other activity at your company. You review the resources that go into an operation, and then compare that to what you get out of it. Simple ROI calculations. So, as you plan the rest of your recruiting plan for the year, the question becomes: [...]
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The long recruitment process has finally paid off. You’ve found your next superstar employee. But then the height of HR disappointment happens they turn you down your job offer. The rejection not only throws your recruitment process into chaos. It also sends you scrambling to figure out why you can’t land your best candidates. The [...]
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LinkedIn has become a central pillar of any recruiting effort. It has particular value for targeting candidates with specific skills or refined expertise, the kind of workers that are difficult to find through a traditional job search. That makes the social media giant perfect for recruiting finance talent. Workers in the financial sphere often require [...]
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It wasn't long ago that smartphones represented a new technology. Now, they are central to our lives. Just look at the process of recruiting: phones have become integral to the process. It leads to a situation where you to optimize for mobile or miss out on some of the best talent out there. Once upon a time, if you wanted to attract new talent, you printed [...]
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Internships represent an excellent way to augment your recruitment strategy. It also provides you with relatively cheap access to talented people. You can get some grunt work done, meet smart people and maybe develop some promising future prospects. The project comes with a cost, of course. The interns are raw, prone to mistakes and never [...]
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August 19, 2020
