Ben Slater — July 6, 2017 Follow @BenJHSlater — July 6, 2017 JESHOOTS / Pixabay Reply rate might not be the metric that you’re judged on as a recruiter, but it certainly plays a key role in your success. Nowadays, the best candidates have more options than ever before; you can’t rely on organic applications, … Continue reading How to Use Video to Increase Candidate Reply Rates by 8x
Contributor Brian Ussery breaks down featured snippets, explaining his observations and offering tips for pursuing the coveted ‘position zero.’ Brian Ussery on June 30, 2017 Featured snippets are quickly becoming the only search results for many queries. If a user goes to Google.com and types [what is the tallest tree], Google returns a … Continue reading Featured snippets: Optimization tips & how to ID candidate snippets
Ben Slater — June 29, 2017 Follow @BenJHSlater — June 29, 2017 skeeze / Pixabay A great candidate journey doesn’t just happen overnight. Ensuring that the candidate experience is optimal at every touchpoint typically requires a lot of work. So how do you get started? How do you take the first step to creating a … Continue reading How to Create a Great Candidate Journey
Sean G. McCormick — May 26, 2017 Follow @SeanG_McCormick— May 26, 2017 A common thread in recruitment is hiring high-performing talent. How do you uncover individuals that execute on the highest level? “There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognise ability.” – Robert Half There … Continue reading High-Performance Hiring: 6 Indicators to Tell If a Candidate is a Top Performer
Ji-A Min — May 12, 2017 — May 12, 2017 According to LinkedIn’s 2017 Global Recruiting Trends, 38% of talent acquisition leaders would invest in candidate experience if money wasn’t an issue. Candidate experience is a candidate’s overall evaluation of the hiring process from sourcing, screening, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding. As an area of recruiting … Continue reading 5 Ways Technology Can Help Improve Your Candidate Experience
Erin Dore Miller — April 3, 2017 — April 3, 2017 There are many things to consider in finding the right candidate. I’m always shocked by how so many accomplished executives, business owners and managers shudder at the thought of recruiting; these are people that have faced challenge after challenge, and have found enormous success, … Continue reading Create a Candidate Assignment
Maren Hogan — February 1, 2017 Follow @marenhogan— February 1, 2017 Candidate experience is a multi-faceted thing. And, a lot of companies are struggling to give job applicants positive experiences. Just consider the stats: Only 40% of recruiters are even required to respond to job applicants AT ALL, according to the 2015 NAM CandE Research … Continue reading What Your Candidate Experience is Missing
Taz Lake — November 3, 2016 Follow @tazlake— November 3, 2016 The 2016 election season is in full swing, and there are four main candidates for the office of the President of the United States. Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are all vying to become the CEO of our country. Of … Continue reading What Businesses Can Learn from Presidential Candidate Websites
by Jacob Shriar Follow @jacobshriarSeptember 27, 2016 If you’re looking to fill a role as a recruiter, what does the perfect candidate look like? With the majority of candidates being passive, how do you know exactly where to find them? Once you find them, how do you know what to say to them? Which perks … Continue reading Building The Perfect Candidate Persona
by Will Thomson Follow @WillRecruitsSeptember 23, 2016 A couple of weeks ago I discussed a war for talent. As cliché as the war for talent sounds, it is real. Recruiters and HR professionals have been talking about this war for over a decade and most are sick of hearing about it. The one thing we … Continue reading It IS a Candidate Marketplace
