Onboarding New Employees: Best Practices for Successful Integration
Effective onboarding is the welcome mat for new employees, fostering retention, productivity, engagement, and a harmonious company culture.
Recruitment KPIs: Tracking Key Performance Indicators for Successful Talent Acquisition
The key to recruitment success is to leverage essential KPIs and elevate your strategies with data-driven insights.
The Evolution of Talent Acquisition: AI in Recruitment
Explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the HR landscape and how to leverage this technology in your recruitment strategy.
Understanding the End-to-End Process of Recruitment: From Sourcing to Onboarding
Explore the complete recruitment process from attraction to hiring top talent with this comprehensive guide to talent acquisition.
Revolutionizing Recruitment: Ceipal Enhances Talent Acquisition With ChatGPT
Elevate recruitment with Ceipal’s ChatGPT integration.
Employee Management Software: Efficiently Manage Your Employee Data
Ditch spreadsheets. Elevate HR with streamlined, secure, and user-friendly employee management software.
The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in HR
Explore the potential and challenges of AI in HR and discover its impact on talent management, employee engagement, and ethics.
From Hustler to Entrepreneur: 5 Key Lesson for Success in the World of Talent Acquisition
These five key lessons serve as guiding beacons for those who dare to dream and take risks in the world of business.
Building Trust: Transparent Hiring in IT Staffing
Transparent recruitment guides you toward the best IT talent while fostering unwavering trust.
Efficient Employee Management With Advanced Software Solutions
The changing demands of modern businesses necessitate streamlined and effective employee management.
Client Satisfaction: Excelling in IT Staffing and Exceeding Expectations
Excellent client relationship management requires a foundation of trust, transparency, and effective communication.
Mastering Contract Negotiations: Rates and Terms in IT
Explore the strategies and tactics that ensure negotiating success in the dynamic arena of IT staffing.
Strategically Align Your Workforce With Workforce Planning
Strategically aligning your workforce with workforce planning demands an understanding of your business strategy and talent needs.
Future-Proofing IT Staffing: Anticipating Skill Gaps
Anticipating gaps and continuously adapting and refining your strategies will keep your IT staffing ahead of the curve.
Exploring End-to-End Recruiting: A Holistic Approach to Talent Acquisition
Learn how taking a holistic approach to talent acquisition can revolutionize your recruitment strategy.
Simplify Vendor Management With the Right VMS Tool
Simplify vendor management, automate talent sourcing, and make data-driven decisions with the right VMS.
New Hire Onboarding: Creating a Smooth Transition for New Employees
Ensure a seamless and pleasant experience for your new hires by implementing effective onboarding strategies.
Centralize HR Data With a Human Resources Information System
In the modern business landscape, managing human resources efficiently is a critical way to ensure an organization’s success.
Diversity Hiring: Strategies for Building an Inclusive Workforce
By fostering a workplace that celebrates differences, we cultivate an environment where employees feel valued.
Enhance Engagement and Productivity With Effective Employee Onboarding
Employee onboarding is an opportunity to create a memorable and rewarding experience for new hires.
Securing Top Talent: Effective Strategies for Talent Sourcing
Unlocking top talent through effective talent sourcing is a continuous journey that demands dedication.
Mastering the Art of Sourcing in Recruitment: Best Practices and Techniques
Sourcing in recruitment is an art that requires a skilled and proactive approach.
Prioritize DEI for a Successful Business Strategy
Prioritizing diversity, equity, and inclusion is a critical component of a successful business strategy.
How Staffing Firms Can Level Up to Increase Market Share
Are you involved with a small-to-midsize staffing firm looking for ways to grow its presence in the industry? Do you have an interest in learning more about how key technology trends for digital transformation could transform your business? If yes, consider checking out our latest GetWise Webinar, “How Staffing Firms Can Level Up to Increase
Make Background Screening a Priority in 2023
Organizations that utilize background screening solutions significantly improve the candidate experience.
HR Conferences You Should Not Miss in 2023
We’ve compiled a comprehensive list of top HR conferences to attend in 2023 to help you stay current with the newest and most significant trends.
Creating and Maintaining a Diverse Workforce in 2023
Each new year is an opportunity to shape the efforts and focus of the 12 months to come. As we kick off 2023, we couldn’t think of a better time to sit down with Dawn Siler-Nixon, Diversity Partner at FordHarrison. As a nationally-recognized DEI lawyer, Dawn offers unique insights and a 360-degree perspective on the
Winning with HBCUs: Supporting the Future of Diverse Talent
For nearly 200 years, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), have led the way to higher education for Black students. Initiated at a time when Black students were prohibited from attending most colleges and universities in America, HBCUs continue to be vibrant institutions, advancing educational opportunities for all students, regardless of race. While HBCUs make up just
It’s Time to Disrupt the Status Quo with Contingent Workforce Diversity
We had a wonderful discussion in advance of the NMSDC conference about the future of CW diversity with Tinisha Bookhart, Co-founder and Partner at Primary Talent Partners (PTP). PTP is certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), with a mission of being the primary source for talent
7 Signs That You Need a New Applicant Tracking System
Applicant tracking systems were built in the 90s to streamline the recruitment process and make the lives of recruiters easier. In the last decade, digital transformation has accelerated the proliferation of hundreds of recruitment software solutions in the marketplace, giving end users a wide variety of options. Despite the many choices in the marketplace, some
Making Disability a Part of the DEI Equation
With National Disability Employment Awareness Month kicking off on October 1, we couldn’t think of a better time to sit down with Bree Sarlati, CEO of Peak Performers, a rare, nonprofit staffing firm focusing on setting a new standard of employment for persons with disabilities and chronic conditions. Recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts on their 40
The Intersection of Change: Working Together to Drive DE&I in the Contingent Workforce
Are you a corporation or MSP looking to improve your contingent workforce programs? Do you have an interest in learning more about how partnering with service and technology providers can improve CW DEI? If yes, consider registering for our upcoming webinar, “The Intersection of Change: Working Together to Drive DE&I in the Contingent Workforce.” Hosted
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month With Nina Vaca
With National Hispanic Heritage Month kicking off today, we couldn’t think of a better time to chat with Nina Vaca, Founder & CEO of Pinnacle Group, to learn more about how she transformed the company into the largest Latina-owned and led global workforce solutions provider. As our inaugural guest on DEI Live™, we deeply enjoyed
How to Source Candidates Without Job Portals?
Since their inception in the mid-90s, job boards have focused on giving companies the tools they need to collect and share job positions and job seeker details. Early job boards included Monster and CareerBuilder. By 1994, one in five companies was using some sort of online recruitment services. As the internet grew, new companies emerged,
Applicant Tracking System Software: What Is Applicant Tracking System Software and How To implement it
What is an Applicant Tracking System? Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) are intelligent, scalable recruitment software for HR and staffing professionals. ATS systems seamlessly automate recruitment processes and allow hiring managers to source, shortlist, and select the right candidates. In other words, ATS is like an applicant data repository that can be used to automate workflows
Benefits of Direct Sourcing – Who & Why
Direct Sourcing is when firms leverage their own candidate pool to hire a contingent workforce. This hiring process utilizes the company’s branding, advanced tech platforms for curation, and candidate engagement. At present, it’s predicted that mid-large corporations will increase their adoption of direct sourcing by 60% within the next two years, per SIA’s latest report.
The Importance of TTM
This article was originally published on July 19, 2022 in ET Insights. Find the original publication here. 80% of global corporations recognize the importance of total talent visibility and talent management across all types of talent (FTE, Contingent, and Gig workforces). The importance of Total Talent Management (TTM) is a new paradigm shift for corporations
Total Talent Management—A Necessity, Not Just A Good Idea
Total Talent Management (TTM) is a holistic approach to managing permanent staffing requirements (RPO) and contingent workforce requirements (MSP) into an integrated system. Organizational Barriers to Talent Acquisition Almost 69% of global organizations are facing a talent crunch. Adding to the shortage is the older generation who are retiring before the younger generation is ready
6 Tips for a Job Opening that Gets Filled Fast
You’ve got a great opening in your business for the right person. How do you write an advertisement that attracts the right type of candidate? Based upon research and data from Resume-Library and its sister company CV-Library, we have six tips that are sure to have people applying, and help you to get that vacancy
Top 7 Recruitment Metrics That Every Recruitment Team Should Track
According to the US Department of Labor, the cost of a bad hire is 30% of an employee’s first-year earnings. Bad hire costs go beyond explicit and include tremendous implicit costs because of the ripple effect in the workplace. It takes a toll on the hiring manager, the morale of the colleagues, the product, and
How to Deal with Increasing Candidate Drop-off Rate
One of the ongoing sources of stress in hiring professionals is the unpredictable candidate behavior in this extremely competitive talent landscape. To address this issue, HR professionals and influencers have embraced solutions that support an amazing candidate experience and cater to the candidate-centric job market. Why Candidate Drop-off Matters The candidate drop-off rate is the
Bridging the Talent Gap in Tech Industry
For years, organizations gave digital transformation lip service. However, when the pandemic hit in 2020, organizations were forced to pivot immediately as their workforces transitioned to remote work, forcing companies to embrace digital transformation. This transformation increased the demand for digital tech skills and opened more positions for skills related to critical technologies such as
6 Tips for Improving Recruiting Calls
Marc Benioff, Founder of Salesforce, says that, “acquiring the right talent is the most important key to growth. Hiring was – and still is – the most important thing we do.” We couldn’t agree more with Marc. Successful business empires have been built and destroyed by human capital. History is filled with such success and
Top 6 Activities Every Recruitment Team Should Automate Today
The process of finding quality talent often mirrors looking for a needle in a haystack. A day in the life of a recruiter includes going through inbound resumes, following up with prospects, reviewing resumes, conducting interviews, scheduling interviews, collaborating with hiring managers, and much more. This sounds overwhelming, with no day ever being the same.
Candidate Database Management
Today’s job market is candidate-driven. Like any other business process, the recruitment cycle consists of numerous information exchanges and data migration that requires careful organization of candidate information into different groups depending on their status in the recruitment pipeline. Why Should You Care About Managing Candidate Databases? All staffing and hiring are based on the
Chatbots for Recruitment: Biases & Benefits
Recruitment chatbots are conversational AI interfaces used during the recruitment process to collect information and begin the pre-screening processes. They act as hiring assistants that help recruiters and HR professionals automate the everyday mundane aspects of recruitment and can be used as: Application bots for gathering candidate information Skill-testing bots to evaluate candidates’ expertise Interview
What is Resume Parsing Software? Do You Need It?
Resume parsing is the process of converting resumes, CVs, and cover letters into structured data such as keywords, skills, location, experience, etc. Simply put, resume parsing software parses resumes, which means it stores, organizes, analyzes, and screens resume. On a daily basis, recruiters have to go through hundreds and thousands of resumes to find the
Find the Best Talent with Passive Candidate Sourcing
Passive candidates make up 70% of the global workforce, while semi-active and active candidates make up 30%. Companies cannot survive by recruiting from only 30% of the available talent pool. To scale and succeed through the talent wars, companies must attract both active and passive candidates to fill every open position. Who are Passive Candidates?
Recruitment Marketing 101: Tips to Revamp Your Hiring Process
Recruitment marketing is the process of attracting, engaging, nurturing, and retaining potential talent through marketing strategies by creating a strong employer brand and by promoting an employee value proposition (EVP). It is about creating an engaging candidate experience throughout the recruitment funnel to interact with passive as well as active candidates. With 75% of the
SaaS for the Complete Recruitment Cycle
The pandemic forced organizations to adopt business transformation technologies like automation overnight. This transition fueled organizations to look at talent differently and tap the remote and contingent workforce. Subsequently, the recruitment industry, one of the fastest-growing industries, had to embrace complete automation and digitalization for every step of the hiring journey. Benefits of SaaS Software-as-a-service
The ATS for Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses: Ceipal
Having the right software has become critical to winning in the recruiting game. Staffing and HR professionals are juggling more candidates, more job boards, and more placements than ever before. Some software either doesn’t work the way you want, while other offerings are too expensive. So, what’s a small or medium-sized staffing firm to do?
Recruitment Software for Diversity Hiring
DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) measures are being adopted worldwide by organizations with proven outcomes of increased creativity and innovation. Organizations are working toward bringing unbiased recruitment strategies to provide equal opportunities despite the diversity every individual brings. Each organization has its own DEI hiring goal. The first milestone is to realize the benefits of diversity
8 Reasons You Need Automation to Scale Your Staffing Business
Initially, the outbreak of COVID-19 created major economic setbacks and instabilities, creating mixed implications worldwide for the industry. Prior to the pandemic, only a few companies were practicing remote work. Since then, the industry has been forced to embrace the employment of permanent remote workers, contract-based skilled workers, and big organizations have steadily increased their
Exploring the End-to-End Recruitment Life Cycle
“Full life cycle recruitment” is the complete recruitment process that starts with posting a job and sourcing candidates and ends with placement and onboarding. Recruitment is one of the most critical business activities of any company and requires a thoughtful and highly effective strategy. The Life Cycle Diagram Job Requirements Recruitment starts with the hiring
Recruitment CRM: An Overview of Candidate Relationship Management
Candidate Relationship Management (CRM) in recruitment is a solution that is used to manage talent and nurture long-lasting relationships with candidates that help recruiters increase the conversion rate of applicants into employees. As a part of the recruitment marketing strategy, talent acquisition professionals can use CRM tools to communicate targeted messaging to their wider talent
Managing an Employee Referral Program with an ATS
An employee referral program is a popular recruitment method used by organizations to hire candidates recommended by current employees for open positions by incentivizing them in various ways. In 2022, about 82% of companies have incorporated employee referral programs as a part of their hiring strategies because of the increased efficiency and ROI of such
ATS vs VMS: What’s the Difference?
Not sure whether you should buy an Applicant Tracking System (ATS), Vendor Management System (VMS), or integrate both of them? Let’s start by explaining what these terms mean. What’s the Difference? An Applicant Tracking System is a talent management recruitment software used by recruiters to screen resumes, source candidates, shortlist candidates, post jobs on multiple
Creating Career Sites that Convert
A career site is the first impression of your company that a candidate gets. Create a career site that converts.
How to Choose an ATS/Recruitment Software for Your Company
An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is software that transforms the manual cumbersome process of hiring into a seamless tech-based easy recruitment process. An AI-powered ATS solves many of the challenges a recruiter faces with an array of capabilities, ranging from handling huge databases of candidates to customizing the candidate experience. This ultimately improves the quality
Building Engaged Talent Communities: A Complete Guide
Building talent communities involves proactively sourcing candidates and creating a database that will be available for your future hiring needs. A talent community, also known as a talent pool, is a target set of candidates classified into different segments based on their skills, educational qualifications, location, background, etc. Creating talent communities is an ongoing process
Employer Branding: Recent Trends to Attract Talent
Employer branding is how you build a positive perception among job seekers and create a reputation for your company as an employer. This is how you portray your company so people will want to join your company as well as internal employees. Benefits of Adopting an Employer Branding Strategy According to our research, 55% of
Interview Scheduling: How Effective Can That Be?
To hire smarter, and place more candidates, the recruitment process needs to embrace automation, so it can be faster. Scheduling interviews bridges the gap between candidates and the recruiter. The entire interviewing process starts when the candidates are sourced and shortlisted. Manually scheduling interviews is a mundane task for a recruiter, who must coordinate with
Creating a Positive Candidate Experience Using an ATS
Today’s recruitment industry is completely candidate-driven. For any staffing professional hoping to improve the recruitment process dramatically, an impeccable candidate experience is imperative. Why Does The Perception of The Candidate Matter? When a candidate applies for a job, it is the overall experience of the candidate that shapes the perception of the company. From the
Social Recruiting: Finding the Perfect Match
Since every millennial and Gen Z-er is using social media platforms, the recruitment industry is also shifting toward social hiring – better known as social recruiting. More than 80% of recruiters today use social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, as well as web forums and job boards to hire candidates. 70% of the
5 Steps to Attract the Ideal Suitable Candidates
The recruitment market today is booming. Popular job boards like Monster, Naukri, Indeed, are important, but they’re not the only options available to recruiters. There are tons of new applications aiding recruitment teams to find the talent they need. While there are multiple channels to attract the best candidates, you also have to have a
Key Strategies to Boost Your Candidate Engagement Process
Candidates are the lifeblood of the recruitment industry. A candidate’s impression of a company begins with a positive employer experience. Every successful company wants to create an engaging experience for candidates to attract quality talent and keep them interested in your company, which in turn future proofs your recruitment activities Candidate engagement is the key
Why DEI Technology Matters For The Contingent Workforce
This article was originally published on October 8, 2021 in Forbes. Find the original publication here. The rise of contingent labor is a global phenomenon. In fact, an Oxford Economics survey shows 83% of global executives say they’re increasingly reliant on contingent workers to meet their business objectives. To put that in perspective, a 2015 U.S. Government
Five Steps for Using AI Technology To Solve the DE&I Talent Equation
This article was originally published on July 30, 2021 in Forbes. Find the original publication here. According to McKinsey & Company researchers, there is a linear relationship between racial and ethnic diversity and better financial performance. But, we don’t have to take their word, as there’s an abundance of available data signifying the importance of a diverse workforce to
How To Build A Diverse Workforce And Why Procurement Is So Critical
This article was originally published on May 3, 2021 in Forbes. Find the original publication here. The demand for top-tier talent has reached a fever pitch as the C-suite comes to recognize that the major market disruptions we’ve all shared over the past year have drastically changed how we go about building tomorrow’s workforce. Meanwhile,
How To Build A Talent Pipeline Strategy To Win Market Share And Beat Your Competition
This article was originally published on March 4th, 2021 in Forbes. Find the original publication here. There are many strategic advantages an organization can gain by building its own talent pipeline ecosystem. For starters, it’s an excellent way to build a strong diversified workforce. While diversity goals and initiatives may have once been considered a
Introducing The Talent Container: A New Strategy To Boost Direct Sourcing Results
This article was originally published on February 9th, 2021 in Forbes. Find the original publication here. The first step toward a successful direct sourcing strategy is to build a talent container — a database of prospective applicants that are curated based on various external and internal data sources (e.g., résumés). A combination of technology, processes,
Why Remote Work is the Best Opportunity for Diversity & Inclusion Yet
This article was originally published on December 16, 2020 in Recruiting Daily. Find the original publication here. As someone who loves the camaraderie of office life, I almost hate to admit that I’ve learned a lot by working remotely. No doubt my employees would say the same. Together, we’ve learned that productivity doesn’t have to
Four Strategies on Staying Productive & Profitable Post COVID-19
The recruiting industry has taken a hit from COVID-19. Below are four on-demand webinars that will provide additional input on strategies you and your organization can use to stay productive and profitable post COVID-19. These on-demand webinars can be found below. Ceipal & Nexxt’s Perspective on How Business Insights Drive Staffing Firms to Profitability Joined
4 Easy Ways Staffing Firms Can Prepare for Post COVID-19
This article was originally published on October 16, 2020 in Recruiting Daily. Find the original publication here. Over the next several months, my workforce will start transitioning back to the office. The operations team is observing every one of the CDC’s guidelines to ensure every employee feels safe. And yet, as we take these precautions,
3 Ways to Succeed in the Changing Talent Landscape
This October, I had the pleasure of hosting Ceipal‘s second all-virtual conference of this year, Ceipal Connect. With around 2,000 registrants from around the world, the event was a testament to how the staffing & recruitment industry continues to collaborate and progress, despite the business difficulties of COVID-19. This conference’s theme was simple: how to
What Does Total Talent Management Mean for Enterprises Today?
2020 has been one of the most unpredictable and difficult years for businesses. Just a month ago, almost 80% of small businesses said they had felt a moderate-to-large negative effect from the pandemic. Experts are still predicting that the “real recession” is yet to come, and hiring has plunged by nearly 40 points. So what’s the biggest concern for
6 Ways to Endure Success in Recruitment & Staffing post COVID-19
This article was originally published on August 28, 2020 on LinkedIn. Find the original publication here. Sometimes, I think COVID-19 has changed the way we understand the world. Instead of “BC” and “AD,” we’ve shifted to “BC” and “AC”: “Before COVID” and “After COVID.” In this AC era, there will be new ways to measure
Is HR Ready for the Transformation of HR Tech and Business Post COVID-19?
This aritcle was originaly published on August 6, 2020 in ToolBox HR. Find the original publication here. I recently hosted my company’s flagship conference, CEIPAL Connect. It featured 26 industry leaders in four parallel sessions, filled with insight and knowledge sharing. But what made this CEIPAL Connect so different from the others was that it
When Will the Staffing Industry Recover from COVID-19?
This article was originally published on July 11, 2020 in RecTec Media. Find the original publication here. In a recent webinar series, we invited industry leaders to take a deep-dive into the overall impact that COVID-19 has had on the staffing industry. In doing so, we were able to uncover some great perspectives from our panel
The Passive Candidate Pool Is More Relevant Than Ever — How to Capitalize on It
This article was originally published on June 2, 2020 in Staffing Industry Analysts, The Staffing Stream. Find the original publication here. There’s no question that COVID-19 has changed everyone’s world, toppling some staffing agencies along the way. Of course, while many businesses have been upended, others are actually thriving. According to many in the staffing
5 Tips to Help Recruiters Survive the Coronavirus Crisis
This article was originally published on May 11, 2020 in Human Resource Executive. Find the original publication here. The coronavirus crisis has recreated the world in which we live in unfathomable ways. Social distancing has become a new communal value and toilet paper is practically a new currency. At the risk of sounding glib, it
5 Ways AI Can Put the Human Back in Human Resources
This article was originally published on April 29, 2020 in TLNT. Find the original publication here. A quick scroll through the headlines just about any day of the week reveals a glut of fear-mongering headlines about AI and various forms of AI-driven technology. But, when it comes to human resources and recruitment, such fears are
Candidates: Quality Over Quantity
This article was originally published in Resume-Library. Find the original publication here. How to Improve Candidate Quality It’s no secret that quality is often more important than quantity. And this is no different when it comes to hiring. After all, higher quality candidates are more likely to be top performers, stay in the business for
AI Chatbots for Recruitment—Everything You Need to Know
A recruitment chatbot is basically an HR manager’s dream assistant. In reality, it’s a conversational interface (that looks like an instant messenger chat window) that helps carry out basic processes using artificial intelligence and machine learning. This could be something as simple as letting a recruiter know how many interviews they have that day to
Artificial Intelligence Meets Talent Acquisition
Technology is progressing rapidly around us, and it’s no surprise that it has found its way into recruiting. Since the invention of the ATS, recruiters have been leveraging technology to make their jobs easier and faster. The same holds true today, with improvements being rolled out regularly to all aspects of the recruiting process. One
The Blueprint To Recruiting on LinkedIn
News flash! LinkedIn currently has over 645 million users in more than 200 countries across the globe. Yup, that’s right – 645 million. Today, nearly half of these total users are active users, and with an average of two new members signing up for LinkedIn per second (172,800+ per day!), the opportunity is getting greater
How Proactive Hiring Can Set You Apart
Nowadays, companies can’t afford to be reactive in their hiring efforts. Instead, there’s a lot more pressure to focus on being proactive; actively seeking candidates that are a great fit for your company, regardless of whether they’re looking for a new job or not. After all, the national employment rate is at a record high.
5 Tips on How to Recruit a Millennial (Written By a Millennial)
Let’s face it, whether you like it or not, millennials are taking over today’s workforce. By 2025, it is estimated that 75% of the global workforce will be millennials. In other words, if you’re not paying attention to this generation, or haven’t started targeting them through your recruiting methods, you’re already behind everyone else. Regardless
Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Businesses One Industry at a Time
In the constantly evolving, technological world we live in today, the phrase “innovate or die” is more relevant than ever – especially when we’re talking about artificial intelligence (AI). Every year, more and more industries are beginning to realize the benefits that artificial intelligence offers – whether it’s lowering costs through automation, increasing quality through
Can AI Solve the Challenges Staffing Professionals Are Facing?
Research seeking to understand the real-time challenges faced by staffing firms, their business impacts, and plans to overcome them.
Hunt for Talent: Can Companies Bet on Fresh Talent To Fill 1 Million Open Jobs?
A company is only as good as its employees, so it’s vital that all organizations hire the best possible talent. And that sounds easy, right? In reality, there are some factors at play that make quality talent acquisition today a much different process than in years past. According to 2019 LinkedIn data, the most in-demand skills
Company Culture: The “Why” Behind Our Beliefs
Businesses have many guiding principles on how they run their operations, how they treat their employees, and even promises they make to themselves and to customers. Some companies choose to sum it up in a mission or vision statement that stays hidden on the About page of the website; other companies, those select few exceptional
Employee Appreciation: Did You Thank Your Employees Today?
Did you thank your employees today? A simple question with a simple answer, yet an overwhelming impact. When it comes down to it, expressing gratitude makes us feel good, regardless if we’re the one giving the thanks, or receiving it. With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it’s a friendly reminder to let your employees know
The (Not So) Soft Skills To Look for When Hiring
Hiring talent is not easy. Oftentimes, employers focus on just a particular skill set and from that angle only, try to determine whether the candidate is qualified for the job. Sometimes, they focus on attitude and cultural fit, yet, not as thorough as necessary. Of course – both cultural and skill fit is very important
4 Essentials of the Modern Recruiter
Technology moves fast, and as a recruiter, you cannot be exempt from developments and must, in fact, be a leader. This article outlines some of the technology which has recently come into play within recruiting, so read, learn, and get involved so you and your company’s recruiting practices stay relevant. 1. Mobile Unless you’ve found
4 Reasons Why You Need To Create a Great Company Culture
Company culture is a tough thing to get right and yet, more often than not, a business does not put any work into developing its own internal culture. For many of today’s modern job-seekers, they are not just looking for a job that pays the rent, they are looking for careers with progression. They are
Tips to Recruit Top Tech Talent
Recruitment can be a long and expensive prospect, but any business with growth ambitions must go through the process at some point. With the US currently facing a skills shortage and a decrease in the pool of talent, businesses are struggling to get enough qualified or skilled candidates through the door. The tech sector, in
Selling Your Brand on Social Media
For a candidate job hunting/researching your company online, their journey will typically start by visiting your website’s careers page. probably go and look for company reviews on sites like Glassdoor to try and build a picture of what it’s like to work for your brand. Candidates will also go one step further and not only
Small Business Hiring Best Practices
Hiring the best people, aka top talent, will always be a challenge for SMBs when compared to large organizations. Along with the competitive market, a shrinking talent pool means less (and sometimes lesser) options. The difference between continuing to struggle and finally taking that next step towards becoming a thriving business lies in understanding how
SOC 2 Certification – What It Means for Customers
As more business operations take place online and vast amounts of sensitive data are transmitted electronically every day, cybersecurity has become a key consideration for businesses. Digital security breaches are becoming more prevalent, costly, and harmful to those affected, so it may be necessary for businesses to take additional measures to help ensure the security
5 Easy Ways To Keep Top-Performing Employees
There is a lot of talk about employee tenure and retention of top talent, and how it has changed over the years. What was once looked upon as job-hopping is now widely accepted as just another step up the corporate ladder to better opportunities and more money. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, from
3 Tips To Discover Star Talent
Finding the best talent means exploring all potential channels, and from there deciding which professionals are perfect for your vacancy. If you stick to just one outlet for posting a new vacancy, potential star candidates might miss your job listing. Just as job seekers must use every viable method to discover the right vacancies, recruiters
Don’t Let These 5 App Fears Stop Mobile Recruiting
Technology is in a constant state of flux and changing the way we live, our decision-making, and playing a huge role in the way businesses function. Mobile recruiting is all the rage and businesses that want to stay competitive must ride the crest of technology or face the prospect of redundancy. The great thing about
The 10-Point Checklist for Recruiting Exceptional People
After years of searching for and recruiting candidates, we have come up with a checklist that reflects our method for finding exceptional talent. The steps below are a mix of performance-based hiring techniques and marketing tips we have picked up throughout our years in the industry. Give this checklist a shot on your next search. Prepare a
Social Recruiting: Why You Need It & How To Do It
Recruiters are pretty social beings by nature, which is a good thing because being social is a big part of the job. Client meetings, candidate coffee dates, and industry events – it really is just another day at (or out of) the office. Recruiters connect people with opportunities and to do this, they rely on
3 Reasons Your Email & Recruitment Software Should Integrate
In our digital world, today’s staffing and recruitment professionals are reliant on email as their primary source of correspondence with candidates and clients. The challenge for many recruitment agencies is managing all the electronic communication in a central location in a quick, integrated way. To better understand the need, here’s what top managers and professionals
10 Habits of Successful Recruiters
Have you ever wondered why skilled specialists are sometimes rejected by a recruiter as being unprofessional, yet accepted by another as a gem? The workforce of any company hugely depends on its recruiting skills. Some recruiters have sharp skills and are wildly successful, while others aren’t, losing their best candidates without even listening to them.
Why Recruiters Need to be Emotionally Intelligent Regarding Talent
We talk at length about how and why the talent we recruit must be high on the EQi scale, but often fail to turn the mirror back on ourselves. As we rely more on data in the recruitment process, the value of recruiters rests in their ability to practice high levels of emotional intelligence to
Are You Making These 8 Rookie Recruitment Mistakes?
If you’re having trouble placing candidates or your recruitment process isn’t running as smoothly as you would have hoped, it may be time to take a step back and assess what exactly is going wrong. Sometimes even the smallest of changes can make a world of difference, so it’s worth taking the time to identify
Blogging – The New Recruitment Tool
In 2018, you’d be hard-pressed to find any successful business without a blogging presence. Whether businesses are truly committed to blogging or not is one thing, but most at least play along because they’ve repeatedly been told that it’s a best practice. But, despite the fact that most businesses have blogs, very few realize just
Improve Recruitment & Talent Acquisition With a Centralized System
Process improvement within recruiting and talent acquisition needs more emphasis. One reason this is critical is that the quality of the hiring process directly impacts the success of it by way of the customer experience (applicants, candidates, hiring managers). Secondly, the success of a hiring process directly ties into the very vitality of an organization
The True Cost of a Hire
When you hire a new employee, you’re not just agreeing to pay them a salary. There are recruiting costs, training, benefit packages, equipment, and more than have to be factored into the equation. 1. Recruiting Recruiting is one of the more obvious costs that gets overlooked because it’s not an ongoing cost. You only incur it when
The Biggest Influencers on the Future of Recruitment
The most wonderful thing about recruitment is that we get to collaborate, deal, and work with the most intelligent yet complex creations on earth and beyond. So, for anyone looking for something adventurous and intriguing, the recruitment industry is your go-to place. Diversity, artificial intelligence (AI), data insights, and new-age interview processes are going to
How To Recognize The Right Resumé
In a sea of mediocre-to-good applications, it’s important to be able to recognize good resumés quickly. A great resumé is one that compels you to call them immediately, or at the very least, leave you in no doubt that you should be putting them in the “yes” pile. Since the average recruiter can spend as
Recruiting Passive Candidates
Passive candidates make up about 75% of the workforce. With such a majority, it is reasonable to believe that some of the highest performing candidates will fall under this category and there are a number of reasons that they appeal as prospective hires: They have a proven track record of working in a similar environment.
Revitalizing Your Job Description
If you’re a recruiter, no matter where you work or what kind of corporation you work for, it is in your and your company’s best interests to stay abreast of the latest trends in the recruitment world. These days it’s not good enough to simply place an ad and hope you’ll fill the position; more
How to Attract & Hire Recent Graduates
We all know the benefits of hiring recent grads. They’re cost-effective, eager to work, and impressionable. However, attracting and hiring the best of these candidates might pose a challenge seeing as everyone is after them. Rudimentary recruiting strategies no longer work. Today, most talented and qualified grads are getting offers from multiple companies before they
Tips on Attracting and Retaining Millennial Talent
Millennials have been blamed of ruining certain American staples, with the gamut running from diamonds to department stores. And sure, they have been accused of killing the 9 to 5 work week, however, many employers can look past that, having realized that their education, tech-savviness, and fresh vision can be key to a company’s success.
Ways For Every Recruiter to Stay Competitive
It can be really difficult to recruit qualified candidates. While almost all of us agree with this statement, many view it as a bad thing. In reality, this is actually good news for staffing firms because if it were easy to find great candidates, there would be no need for recruiters and their services. That
Signs You Need a New ATS
A good Applicant Tracking System (ATS) is at the crux of successful recruiting. It connects and automates most of the recruiting processes. Streamlined recruiting workflows – this is the basic feature of an ATS, so any ATS you pick will be good…right? Wrong. Not every ATS is ideal for every business, and Know Your Recruiting
How to Use Facebook Jobs for Recruiting
For successful recruiting, you first need to get your job openings in front of the right candidates. One good way to do this is by utilizing Facebook – the platform where many people from around the world spend a significant amount of their time. Facebook, though not traditionally used for recruitment, now allows US and
How Workforce Diversity Affects Business
Diversity can be defined in numerous ways, yet, it is primarily defined as the inclusion of different people and/or things in a collective group or whole. It also means different opinions and ideas. Diversity is about embracing differences in and of all types. The whole point of having a diverse workplace is to prevent a
