Recruiting Strategies

Recruiting processes, no matter the industry, are relatively standard. In a way, you can think of it as similar to a Christmas tree. The tree itself is mostly the same from location to location, but specific details about it change; the size, the position, the decorations. In recruiting, the framework and the processes are the…

Every company has its superstar employees. Maybe it’s your sales team manager who has enabled growing sales year after year, or perhaps it’s an executive who has been responsible for growth in several companies. Maybe it’s a star developer who streamlines your entire workflow. Whoever it is, you want to keep them around. At the…

It often seems as if recruiting in colleges and universities is an impossible task. Many different pressures are pushing organizations away. University enrollment is down. The proliferation of online, open-source, and accessible channels for learning suppresses enrollment further. Demographics in higher education have been changing rapidly. Traditional methods of reaching university students have less and…

One of the greatest challenges facing every business is recruitment. You need to recruit good, loyal, skilled, and effective employees, but so does every other business out there. You’re competing not just with businesses in your niche, but with businesses that have the same roles in their organizational chart. A talented IT developer, a skilled…

Employees come and go. It’s simply a fact of running a business that, sooner or later, even your most dedicated employee may move on, whether it’s to a new career or retirement. Sometimes it’s on good terms, and sometimes it’s not. Sometimes there’s plenty of notice, sometimes there’s not. There’s only one constant: you will…

A common piece of advice for job seekers is to make your resume stand out. So why shouldn’t the same be true of hiring managers? When you’re offering a new position, whether it’s to your careers portal, a job aggregator, through a recruiter, or anything in between, you want to stand out from the rest…

Facebook’s monthly active user numbers have been growing quarter over quarter since 2008, and they show no sign of slowing down. At this point, they have over 2.7 billion monthly active users. To put it another way, that’s a little over a third of the entire population of the world. Chances are, to put it…

One of the most important decisions you can make as a CEO is hiring your executive team. Among the many critical positions on that team, perhaps none is as important as your Vice President of Sales. Your VP of Sales is the person responsible for your sales teams, strategies, promotion, and training. Their job has…

If you have a position that you need to be filled and you’re planning on doing it yourself, advertising is the most popular way to get more eyes on your listing. Whether it’s a sign on the door or paid ads on social networks, advertising can be an effective tool for recruiting. The more awareness…

Not too long ago, targeting a specific group of people might mean picking a neighborhood to mass mail from the post office. These days, location-based targeting on the internet is more powerful and is executed with far more precision. These techniques are useful for more than just your basic product advertising and service offers. It’s…

You can spend all the time you like writing a fancy job description, but when it comes to effectively attracting candidates, you need some hard data. Some of this data will make or break whether or not a given candidate wants to apply to a job. Is the position in a location they’re willing to…