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
Where Have All the Great Recruiters Gone?
Today’s tough labor market is putting recruiters to the test. While some of them are certainly rising to the occasion, a far greater number aren’t faring … Read more
New Report Shows How Terrible the Fortune 500 Does With Job Seekers and the Candidate Experience
Here’s a pretty stunning statistic that tells you all you need to know about the state of candidate experience today. It’s this: Only 2 percent … Read more
What Do Job Candidates Want Most? Glassdoor Has the Answer and It’s Pretty Simple
What do candidates want most? It’s actually pretty simple, as Glassdoor’s latest survey of job seekers found. Yet, simple or not, it’s … Read more
Like With Dating and Shopping, Job Seekers Are Being Deluged With Choices
Consumers can get overwhelmed with choices, whether it’s on a dating app or a toothpaste aisle. And, so can job seekers, especially with more of … Read more
The Darkside of a Candidate-driven Market: Ghosting, Catfishing, and No-shows
The terms “ghosting,” “catfishing,” and “no show” are mostly used in the dating world. However, these types of behaviors have become typical in … Read more
What Your Candidate Rejection Process Says About Your Culture
We recently hired a new intern class for the summer. Every year, I’m reminded how much rejecting finalist intern candidates stinks, mostly because college … Read more