If you need better recruiting results, your recruiting strategy needs the OOH factor, out-of-home advertising, specifically billboards. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans spend more than 100 hours a year commuting to work. That’s a lot of time for eyes on the road, eyes of passive candidates already employed who aren’t looking at online…
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Although IT recruiters have the same challenges as recruiters of other types of positions and industries, they also face some challenges that are unique to the IT industry and IT candidates. All recruiters needs to find good sources of candidates, find a large enough pool of qualified candidates, attract passive candidates, and find candidates…
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One of the most common concerns on the minds of recruiters is how to increase candidate response rates from LinkedIn InMails. Recruiters know the problem all too well – candidates are inundated with calls, emails and InMails from recruiters, and so grabbing their attention becomes quite a challenge. My advice to increase your InMail response…
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It’s difficult to stand out and attract applicants when recruiting in a highly competitive market. Technology executives from Forbes Technology Council say locating and attracting talent, resume distrust, the need for quick hiring decisions, and geographic constraints have been the top recruiting challenges faced in 2016. Using innovative and creative recruiting tactics, and finding…
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Each generation is different, and as such, reaching out to them is going to require different tactics. Before diving into the subject it’s worth noting that generations are not ‘real’ strictly speaking – not everyone is going to fit neatly into every category. Still, they are useful division, since each generation will have some things…
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Here at ContractRecruiter.com, we have over the years developed and refined a successful and repeatable process for screening and interviewing corporate-side, contract recruiters that has served us well. I thought I’d share it with my readers so that you too can think about adopting it for your own organization. I use the term “contract…
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Well, it’s been a while since my last blog post. I have been exceptionally busy making a number of incremental but impactful changes to our recruiting tools, team, and best practices – especially in regard to passive candidate sourcing. But the biggest change over past few months has been our new company name. Since 2009,…
Read MoreThere’s a new breed of HR professionals on the scene that are driving the conversation and the bottom line in human resources. HR analysts around the world have insights that employers, recruiters, and human resource professionals of all stripes can use to get to the head of the line in recruiting, employer branding, and employee…
Read MoreBy 2019, video will drive the majority of global Internet traffic according to Cisco, making it the most important way to improve your recruiting messaging in 2016. Two Recruiting Division posts that discuss video interviewing include, “Wildly Effective Video Recruitment Solutions” and “Video Interviewing is a No-Brainer for Recruitment“. But video interviews aren’t the only way…
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Replace dull, poorly written job descriptions with better formats, better language, and better design. ContractRecruiter.com knows the value of excellent job descriptions. We’ve discussed them in “Do Your Job Descriptions Stink?” and talked about formats and using video. If you have a stack of boring, outdated job descriptions that…
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