If you’re reading this article right now, I’m guessing you’re the type of person who likes to consume anything you can get your hands on about TA. Anything … Read more
Why Organizations Value Consumer Brands More Than Employer Brands and How to Change the Conversation
Universum’s annual list of “most admired” employers is out, with many of the usual suspects (Google, Apple, Amazon) topping the list. Not … Read more
Candidate Ghosting — Effective Tips for Minimizing This Growing Menace
Ghosting is an emerging issue in recruiting, now rated as the No. 1 challenge by nearly 6 percent of employers (Source: iHire). Ninety-five percent of … Read more
Candidate Feedback: ‘We’ve Just Got to Care’
Communicating with job candidates isn’t necessarily that expensive. It’s more about putting together an efficient process and following it, so … Read more
‘Show Candidates the Love’
You can’t do it for everyone, but a bottle of wine, a basket, and a handwritten note can go a long way when courting a candidate. In the podcast … Read more
Making Connections: Where the Candidate Experience and Employee Evangelism Intersect
Developing a truly effective candidate experience is an iterative process, but what’s constant are the connections created, fostered, and grown … Read more
Recruiting’s Top 7 Bottom-line Business Impacts That Most Ignore
The ultimate goal of any business function should be to have a direct and measurable impact on their company’s bottom line and corporate strategic goals. … Read more
The 100 Percent Touch Rule for Job Candidates
Candidate experience. Typically that revolves around keeping in touch with job candidates and not doing the disappearing act so many companies have done … Read more
Our Talent Acquisition Path at Intel, From Transactions to Relationships
Intel has been on a journey to rethink talent acquisition for the last two years. We started from a fundamental premise that the way talent acquisition in … Read more
What No One’s Saying About the Thank-you Controversy: It’s About Transparency
Recently an article written by Jessica Liebman,of Business Insider went viral and attracted a lot of attention. Liebman said there was one thing that … Read more
How to Keep Your Hiring Game Competitive
The last thing a potential employer wants to do is irritate a candidate, but that’s exactly what often happens. In fact, at Indeed, we frequently run into … Read more
Need to Recruit More Applicants? Offer Them a Product Discount
Many search for jobs because they seek more buying power, so why not offer qualified applicants a product discount to meet that interest? Yes, when you’re … Read more
Decrease Your Candidate Drop off
We’re all trying to get more amazing people into our hiring funnels. We spend time sourcing, money on job ads, and hours thinking of creative ways to … Read more
Why Is It That You Can You Continuously Track an Amazon Package But Not Your Job Application?
This is wrong: you can easily track the progress of a $29 Amazon package of socks, but not your job application that you put numerous hours into. It … Read more
Redesigning Recruiting: Here’s the Way Forward
Recruiting, like so many other services, is undergoing massive disruption. Everything is changing. The expectations of hiring managers, job seekers, … Read more
How to Keep Pre-hire Assessments From Wrecking the Candidate Experience
“Can assessments and a positive candidate experience peacefully coexist?” Gerry Crispin, co-founder of CareerXroads and the TalentBoard, has an answer: … Read more
A Candidate Like No Other
In most workplaces. It’s still one size fits all in policies, processes, and tools. We no longer live in a data-poor world, but we continue to use … Read more
Why Structured Interviews Are the Best Way to Hire
Have you ever asked different people how the same movie was and received different reactions and emotions? The conversation could flow like this: Will: How … Read more
A Look at Job-candidate Expectations Shows Europe Is No Monolith
Thanks to a growing talent shortage in their local labor markets, international recruitment is becoming an interesting option for many companies in Europe. … Read more
5 Empathetic Ways to Calm Job Seekers’ Fears
The record-low unemployment rate hasn’t made job seekers feel more in control of their careers. Instead, it has brought deeply-rooted fears to the surface, … Read more