If we break recruitment down to its most basic level, there are really only three elements that matter. How easily can we identify strong candidates for a particular role. How successful are we in persuading those strong candidates to consider the opening and put themselves forward for consideration. Do those strong candidates go on to…
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When you need qualified candidates, you’re not limited to LinkedIn for social media recruiting. Look at other social media avenues to apply to your recruiting strategy to expand your reach, improve your hiring success, and speed your time to hire, all while building employer brand and engaging candidates and employees. These are the top five…
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Recruiters are in the business of finding qualified candidates for open positions. It’s one of the basic aspects of the job, and recruiters have to know how to do it. Recruitment strategies depend on it. While everyone knows about LinkedIn and cold calling for sourcing, and most people know about Boolean search, there are newer…
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It’s official – it’s a candidate market out there. Recruiting and company review site Glassdoor reports that 84 percent of employees surveyed would leave their jobs to work for companies with excellent reputations. That means companies today have to work continuously at engaging and retaining top talent, providing what they want or…
Read MoreIf 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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