Looking for new employees? If you are like many hiring managers then your first step is researching resume databases to try to find someone suitable. This is a long and often frustrating process filled with disappointments. Candidate pools are filled to the brim with candidates who don’t have the skills or the experience needed to […]
Posts Categorized: Recruiting
Do You Know About the New Workplace Laws in 2015?
As an employer, it’s important to understand that there are certain employment related laws in place to protect your employees These laws include recruitment advertising and hiring practices, health insurance requirements, career opportunities, and other rules that make it illegal for employers to discriminate against protected classes of people. It’s always important to stay up-to-date on workplace laws […]
How to Effectively Use Mobile Recruiting
This year, mobile recruitment became more important than ever before. Why? Because everyone and their grandmother is using a mobile device to get information and this includes candidates who are looking for great career opportunities. If you want to improve your recruitment strategy, then the use of mobile recruitment methods should be at the top […]
Questions to Ask to Find the Right Staffing Firm
As a job seeker, you are already aware that a staffing firm can support your efforts of finding a great new career. There are many benefits of working with and through a staffing agency. But, how can you choose the right staffing firm for your type of background and interests? In this article, we will […]
Should You Only Place Large Amounts of Employees?
Recruiters often ignore small number placements in favor of large volume employee placements. Why? It can be easy to make money on large placements because it’s about the numbers, and recruiters can become overly focused on numbers and ROI. However, don’t get caught in this trap as a recruitment professional. Placing one or two high-level […]
How To Post Job Listings To Social Media
The business use of social media has exploded during the past handful of years, and its common for companies to post their job openings to various social media sites. Recruiters are having an easier time finding candidates for open jobs because of the access to millions of people via social media. Sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn […]
Tech Tools Recruiters Can Use To Land Candidates
Recruiting is an established profession that’s been around for years. In the old days, recruiting used to solely rely on pen and paper to get the job done. A lot has changed and mostly for the better. Now, recruiters can use a host of technology to recruit the top candidates within their industries. This week, […]
How To Optimize Your Job Postings
When jobs open up, companies like to advertise for new employees as quickly as possible in order to begin the hiring process without much of a delay. Job postings are published in newspapers, magazines, on bulletin boards, in online forums, with internet job sites and on social media sites. However, often these job postings are not fully […]
Should You Ever Hire An Overqualified Candidate?
Companies have plenty of decisions to make when choosing a candidate for an open job. One of those decisions is whether or not to hire an overqualified candidate. Some companies will say absolutely, while others will refuse to bring an overqualified candidate on as an employee and won’t back down from that sentiment. We will […]
Temporary Or Direct Hire: Which Should You Choose To Fill Your Position?
Deciding who to hire for an open position at your company can be very difficult. No matter how many people you interview, or how in-depth you research a person, there is no guarantee that the hire will pan out and be with you long-term. Because of this, an argument has come about that asks how […]